(02-06-2022, 03:30 PM)Ben Shatliff Wrote: Does anybody know why ITV are not doing extensive coverage of the Jubilee Celebrations like they have in the past?

(02-06-2022, 07:21 PM)Steve Williams Wrote:

(02-06-2022, 03:30 PM)Ben Shatliff Wrote: Does anybody know why ITV are not doing extensive coverage of the Jubilee Celebrations like they have in the past?

The celebrations are different this year than in previous years, and there isn't really a large public event as there was ten years ago. Last time there was the carriage procession which ITV covered on the Tuesday, but that was the only day that weekend they were on air and they didn't cover the concert or the river pageant (dodging a bullet there, perhaps).

This time round, Trooping the Colour is something ITV have never covered, or at least not for many, many years. The concert is obviously exclusively on the Beeb as it's been made for television, and the Platinum Pageant fills the same role as the river pageant in 2012. So that leaves the service and unlike last time there isn't a carriage procession and a day of events alongside it, everything is done and dusted by lunchtime, so it hardly seems worth ITV getting a presentation team together for that alone. There's the beacons too, but they probably thought Emmerdale, Corrie and Britain's Got Talent were a bigger draw, probably.

Of course, they did show the event at Windsor the other week, and they're also showing the Derby which is part of the weekend celebrations with Royals in attendance. So they are playing a part in it, without needlessly duplicating the Beeb.

Looking back at 2002, again ITV didn't show the two concerts. ITV were a bit stuck that year, mind, as it was the during the World Cup and on the day itself they had a match with a 10am kick-off so their coverage began on ITV2 and moved over to ITV1 after twelve, by which point the Beeb had been on for several hours and so nobody switched over. They also showed the fireworks after the concert, but the concert overran so they was a lot of filling required. However we did have Trevor McDonald welcoming viewers to "this World Cup and Jubilee Bank Holiday", which was a highlight.

And in 1977, ITV planned to cover all of it but couldn't because there was a strike at Thames so the Beeb had it all to themselves, like in 1953.

(02-06-2022, 06:00 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Not having plans to celebrate isn't the same as not being willing to watch it on TV though.  Most people just don't want enforced organised "fun" with the neighbours who barely make eye contact with them the rest of the year.

(06-07-2022, 07:17 PM)Dylan2001 Wrote: A lot of live links on the evening news tonight

(09-07-2022, 12:25 AM)TJTSW Wrote: Bit of a mess up with the weather tonight, shame poor old Alex down in Weston Supermare trying to do a live link to the weather and it failed, then only to be told we we gonna get the weather from Alex I’m guessing that’s pre recorded anyway but even still Becky popped up stead so must of had a back up prerecorded weather forecast, was funny though ?