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My heart goes out to the Queen, the Royal family and all of you in the UK apon hearing of the death of Prince Philip, he was a great man, he will be truly missed by all.
 

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He had a good innings, another five weeks and his wife would have sent him a telegram
R.I.P Philip
 

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There has been a massive backlash against the main broadcasters for clearing the schedules for perpetual coverage of Phil The Greeks death

ITV - audience down 60% Friday evening / BBC2 - down about 66% / 100,000+ complaints to the BBC about the excessive coverage

Id hazard a guess the broadcasters will be rapidly overhauling the broadcast protocols for a royal death in the face of the audience indifference to the event and the anger its generated.




At least they made it clear who it was this time - 20 years ago I was camping out at a friends house up a very remote valley the day Diana died. We put the telly on at lunchtime mid coverage - and it took over an hour before we learned for certain who had actually died. Absolutely dreadful journalism! It was just long shots of the Paris underpass with almost no solid information as to wtf had actually happened
 

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There has been a massive backlash against the main broadcasters for clearing the schedules for perpetual coverage of Phil The Greeks death

ITV - audience down 60% Friday evening / BBC2 - down about 66% / 100,000+ complaints to the BBC about the excessive coverage

Id hazard a guess the broadcasters will be rapidly overhauling the broadcast protocols for a royal death in the face of the audience indifference to the event and the anger its generated.




At least they made it clear who it was this time - 20 years ago I was camping out at a friends house up a very remote valley the day Diana died. We put the telly on at lunchtime mid coverage - and it took over an hour before we learned for certain who had actually died. Absolutely dreadful journalism! It was just long shots of the Paris underpass with almost no solid information as to wtf had actually happened
Knowing Nicolas Witchell (that 'awful' man) is to grace the screen for the month of mourning would send any sane licence payer to write a letter, I'm surprised at how low the number is.
 

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Not just TV - my R4 Extra only surfaced Monday morning with its advertised programming after being awash with prerecorded tributes via Radio 4, starting on Friday's death announcement. Missed all the serials I was following.
 

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Have to say I was getting really peed off with the wall to wall coverage, but then I always am with that type of TV, most of it is speculative waffle. Through no disrespect of Prince Philip, I spent most of the weekend on IP content, avoiding the terrestrial binge.
 

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OTT coverage respect the dead but to serialise it every day I missed the Open Golf highlights yesterday afternoon on BBC-2 as it was replaced by another HRH documentary that was shown earlier :eek:
 

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The good news is that the Masterchef Final is on tomorrow at 8pm.
 

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Ive got no objection about the BBC turning oevr one channel to rolling news - BBC News would be ideal - with captions running on the other channels advising viewers of the coverage, but to turn all outlets over for the whole day to just run the same sodding endless clips & talking heads is ludicrous in this day & age. Thats how things were done in the 1940's not the 2020's.
 

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Ive got no objection about the BBC turning oevr one channel to rolling news - BBC News would be ideal - with captions running on the other channels advising viewers of the coverage, but to turn all outlets over for the whole day to just run the same sodding endless clips & talking heads is ludicrous in this day & age. Thats how things were done in the 1940's not the 2020's.
Even within the umbrella of the BBC, departments are fighting for viewers listeners, and readers so much so that a large percentage is as previously stated either waffle speculation or downright lies. It is way past time, the BBC was hung drawn and quartered along with the fat cats that prey on the meaty salaries, make it a subscription service or sell it off to the highest bidder, it is no longer representative of Britain, British culture, religion or consensus of opinion. It is coming to something when the Swiss can watch the BBC cheaper than a UK tax-paying resident.
 

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Our TV is on CBeebies 90% of the time to keep the urchins quiet. And even that was marred by a massive banner at the bottom saying "MAJOR NEWS REPORT ON BBC NEWS".

Not surprised at all on the amount of complaints the coverage received.
 

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The good news is that the Masterchef Final is on tomorrow at 8pm.
Good program if it wasn't for that arrogant know all Greg Wallace.
 
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