Prince Philip has Died

[aaron_scotland]

Do we think that broadcasters got any early warning? Or have the Royal Family switched to Twitter-first?

The fractured approach and starting at noon as normal seems like a reaction rather than preplanned.

Sky were at a live OB with the reporter wearing a pink coat, You'd feel if they knew they'd atleast have skipped that item. Doesn't seem like it was something they were sat on for hours anyway.

[Toby brown]

Does anybody know how long bbc radio will be broadcasting the same thing for?

[WhisperOfCinnamon]

QVC is off air (temporarily)

https://twitter.com/davidb1996/status/13...66305?s=21

[Meridian MR]

Video of Eamonn and Ruth handing to ITV News in this article:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/eamo...ssion=true

[Lightbox]

I'm not entirely criticising the media, but I'd have thought there'd have been an embargo and they'd all announce the news at the same time.

However, it all seemed a bit of a surprise to broadcasters. I got a phone notification from Sky News, at which point I switched to LBC News and they were going as normal, and BBC Radio 2 was doing the same. At that point I ended up going between the two until one of them started coverage (LBC News). Even after that, it took ages to receive notifications from LBC, BBC, and The Guardian. I'd have thought it'd be more instantaneous.

I imagine every broadcaster has their own policies and procedures to initiate when they get the initial release before they even break the news. Agreeing an 'opt-in' point for all outlets takes some logistics, too.

I notice that the Royal Family Twitter account tweeted the announcement at midday, and I wouldn't at all be surprised if the news was released to broadcasters at the same time for immediate release. I doubt the comms team would want to risk anyone breaking any embargo they try to implement, or any informal leaks on social media, before they can publicise their own announcement.

To be fair, 10 minutes or so to implement processes and get everyone to opt in to a network announcement is quicker than I'd have thought (albeit it sounds like it was still a bit messy for some outlets such as national BBC radio!).

The mobile notifications is interesting though, although an extent could be attributed to the APNS delay.

[swaggyboi128]

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[mark]

Less coverage on the US news channels than I'd have expected, given American interest in the royal family. CNN US, MSNBC and Fox News are all covering domestic political stories right now.

[watchingtv]

Channel 4 is being the alternate and is back to normal programming. With no on screen notification.
Channel 5 has a black banner along the top during Sian Williams presented programme about the Royals.

[Chud]

BBC local radio (Sussex) did a proper hand over to the BBC newsroom for an important announcement. Surprisingly radio 2 and lots other just crashed to silence before the official announcement. Think radio 1 had the worst crash out. How did local radio have a heads up and national didn’t?

[AcerBen]

Radio 2 was a bit odd.. Vanessa Feltz was asking for phone calls on an unrelated topic when she was cut off. This was 5 minutes after the News channel had already announced his death.. is the first part of her programme pre-recorded or something?

[Rob]

Forces TV are showing Sky News coverage:



Caption on CBeebies (and CBBC I think):

[Meridian MR]

Radio 2 was a bit odd.. Vanessa Feltz was asking for phone calls on an unrelated topic when she was cut off. This was 5 minutes after the News channel had already announced his death.. is the first part of her programme pre-recorded or something?

Vanessa was live on ITV with Eamonn and Ruth until approx. 10.50.

[IdentFan101]

Caption on CBeebies (and CBBC I think):

CBBC did as well.

[Andrew]

Do we think that broadcasters got any early warning? Or have the Royal Family switched to Twitter-first?

The fractured approach and starting at noon as normal seems like a reaction rather than preplanned.

It looks to me that they didn’t get a warning, it was announced at 12noon and everyone found out at the same time

Like someone else said, you could see some rushing around during the intro on the news channel, they ran the scheduled top story, broke the news after that, and then started the simulcast a few moments after that.

[nznewser]

CNN's coverage quite disjointed. New Day seems to be leading the coverage but it took a break - and then it comes back with Becky Anderson anchoring CNN Intl coverage. I imagine it was because New Day was going to cover different stories for their US audience, but still it is odd and lacking consistency.