10-04-2021, 04:21 AM
LTSC1980 post_id=5062 time=1618020168 user_id=848 Wrote:https://telly.site/diana/
Looking at coverage of death of Prince Philip make me think about coverage of death of Princess Diana. Trying to find remake of MHP’s coverage and it still works.
Even then, BBC Two were allowed to break away and show sport in the afternoon. I think a couple of the programmes in that menu later on were moved from BBC One.
This makes the decision to take BBC Four off air completely, especially with the football, incomprehensible.
Granted, I'm no fan of the BBC, or specifically its funding model, but even setting that aside how can our public broadcaster fail to take the temperature of the nation so badly?
Not every person who pays the license fee is a royalist. And even those who are can only be told so many times a near-centerian who's been poorly for quite some time has finally had the call from St. Peter.
Yes, of course BBC One and Radio 4 should be wall to wall. Nobody's disputing that. To not provide any alternative in this day and age, however, is a major mistake. The BBC offered rolling news or - literally in the case of BBC Four - nothing.
The last two "Cat A" obits (QM and Diana) saw BBC Two put out some sort of alternative. They now have a third linear channel (available to all, which it wasn't in 2002) to play with, which they didn't have then. I find it poor.