Not sure about ITV's reasoning for simulcasting the funeral on CITV - the BBC's kids channels, CBeebies (pre-school) and CBBC are both running as normal. These days of course, many kids will avoid coverage by going onto YouTube, Netflix, Disney+ and so on...
You can see how Newsround (the BBC's long running kids TV news show) covered the announcement here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROiHAeNl_I I still remember hearing about the Challenger disaster on Newsround back in 1986, since the timings of the launch meant that the explosion happened right in the middle of the kids block of programming on BBC1. There's a VHS copy of it on YouTube too. And yes, that's Philip Schofield in the "broom cupboard" who today presents This Morning on ITV - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0G8Q5Oz_k They didn't pull many punches and showed the explosion up front at the start of the bulletin! On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 6:17 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > Weird that CITV is going to simulcast, considering that on this kind of > news it's always been that you don't put it on the kids' channels, going > back to 9/11. When the Queen died, the BBC kids channels just did the > "please tune to BBC ONE for important news" graphic between programs (I > guess just CBBC, Ceebeebies had signed off--uh, "closed down"--for the day). > > I would love to see the kids news show "NewsRound" treated the Queen's > death, or if they just continued on their usual "Entertainment Tonight" for > kids path (back in the John Craven days in the 70s, it was much more like > Linda Ellerbee's Nickelodeon shows in tone than the current version). > > Mark Jeffries > [email protected] > > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 8:12 AM Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On >> Behalf Of *Brad Beam >> >> *>*With English republicans rallying on Twitter about the >> weeping-and-gnashing-of-teeth smotherage via #MournHub, ITV will simulcast >> funeral coverage (6a-12m) on all its digital channels (*2, *3, *4, *Be, and >> C*). >> >> >> >> The start of American coverage (all times ET): >> >> 3:00 BBC America, PBS*, MSNBC >> >> 4:00 Fox News >> >> 5:00 CNN >> >> 5:30 ABC, CBS, NBC >> >> >> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-news-networks-queen-elizabeth-ii-funeral-coverage-plans-1235221533/ >> >> >> >> *The article says 4:00, but @PBS states 3:00. The 90-minute highlights >> package in primetime will push the second night of Ken Burns Holocaust >> documentary to Tuesday. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/001601d8cb60%243dcfd800%24b96f8800%24%40suddenlink.net >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/001601d8cb60%243dcfd800%24b96f8800%24%40suddenlink.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi-5LiTcSF%3D%3D2CSkkj9j0GvcYBwc3%2B7C7UxzEKi5xqp-NQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi-5LiTcSF%3D%3D2CSkkj9j0GvcYBwc3%2B7C7UxzEKi5xqp-NQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGD5cAwEXrs0_Z_M8VknmgEpdtG3PBFzRMgEBj4WzFOyow%40mail.gmail.com.
