Stuart.C 491 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 The U.K GOV must have terrific powers over World / Independant broadcasters as there are many showing only Queen related programing and others returning to it regularly. Here's channels I can see at the moment, there will be many more; Full content; BBC1 BBC2 BBC Parliament BBC 24hrs news channel ITV News Sky News GB News Bloomberg (financial channel) Euronews France24 News(English) Talk Tv Returning regularly to Queen based; CNBC NBC NDTV Aljazeera Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 It would be interesting to know how many people are watching the wall-to-wall Queen programmes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 491 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 Not me, C-T. But I don't have any objection to it being on for those who do want it. I assume people who aren't Royalists / in favour of a Monarchy and are employed will be working as normal on the likely to be announced extra Bank Holiday on the day of the funeral. Even the planned strikes have been called off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RadFordee 68 Posted September 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 If it was state control we would all be being forced to watch the coverage, we are not. Which is the point i was making in my original post, we all have choices. And this is the last i will be saying on the subject as i feel that an obituary is not the place for debating this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hey Arnold 88 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 29 minutes ago, Cliff Ton said: It would be interesting to know how many people are watching the wall-to-wall Queen Had the coverage on yesterday until we'd seen everything for the third time then watched Shetland that we'd recorded. Put the news on this morning, as normal, and am now stripping wallpaper with TV off Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,143 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 Is owt else happening on NS, besides 'keep one drop one'? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,729 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 43 minutes ago, Alpha said: That's is also part of my argument. The BBC has still not come to terms with impartiality in broadcasting. This coverage of the the current issue is exactly like DJ360's comment of state control, something we might well expect from a totalitarian state. Who's pulling the strings here, the BBC lovies who still cannot release themselves from the rigorous control of the self governing BBC dictator John Reith, or is it the hand-wringing palace mandarins or both. I'm more inclined to feel the hand of the current Govt...via its embedded Tory sympathising majority within the Beeb. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,130 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 There’s a bank holiday in the offing apparently. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hey Arnold 88 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 28 minutes ago, DJ360 said: I'm more inclined to feel the hand of the current Govt...via its embedded Tory sympathising majority within the Beeb. Would not the politics thread be more appropriate for the comments made debating control of the BBC rather than an obituary? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,158 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 50 minutes ago, Hey Arnold said: Had the coverage on yesterday until we'd seen everything for the third time then watched Shetland that we'd recorded. Put the news on this morning, as normal, and am now stripping wallpaper with TV off I'd sooner watch Wall to Wall coverage..than strip Wallpaper..... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,143 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 To be honest, with all the repeat crap the beebs showing, I don't think we've missed much. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 808 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 Yes Beekay just listening to the Elizabethan Seranade by Ron Goodwin in celebration of her Coronation when i was a nipper. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 Hate to be pedantic but the Elizabethan Serenade was written by Ronald Binge, not Ron Goodwin. It's a piece of music I have always hated with a passion but I have no idea why. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 I can understand why it's one of those things you might love to hate, but I've always really liked it - even if it might be corny. For me it immediately sums up being at home listening to the radio or record player when I was around 5 - 10 years old. And I have the same cosy feeling about Robert Farnon's Westminster Waltz. They both have me wallowing in the early 60s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,130 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 Didn't he write the shipping forecast music? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 Yes, Sailing By. We had a recording of the Elizabethan Serenade when I was a very young child. The first time I ever heard it, I screamed and started crying. When I started school at four years old, the school pianist played it one morning as we went into assembly. Same result, screaming, crying, demands to stop playing it! I was taken out. The teachers thought I was ill. Every time I saw Mrs Lowe, the school pianist, after that, I screamed because I feared she would play it again. Poor woman asked, in tears, what she had done to upset me and I told her it was playing that piece of music. I'm sure they thought I was nutty but, even now, I still don't like it. For years, it was used to advertise Dairy Lea cheese spread and if it came on tv, it was switched off rapidly. All I can say is that it's something to do with the melody and the intervals between the notes. Maybe I am just nuts! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 How did all these individuals get into St Paul’s for the Thanksgiving Service, were they invited or did they hang about outside hoping to get in the door? Am I old-fashioned thinking that the congregation should have made a bit of an effort dress-wise at such an event, especially as it’s televised worldwide? A lot of the people there were downright scruffy, open-neck shirts, T shirts, I even saw a large woman in a tracksuit! When Diana’s funeral cortège drove up the M1 through Hertfordshire I stood on the hard shoulder wearing a black jacket, to me it was only right. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,130 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 'Sailing By' very soporific. If that didn't send you to sleep the shipping forecast would! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 @LizzieMthose who attended would have been the first to collect a wristband from the London Tourist Office, or some such place. That would then entitle them to attend the service for which places were limited. Perhaps they didn't have time to change in the scrum!? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RadFordee 68 Posted September 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 @LizzieMi said to hey arnold earlier how smart and well turned out the new prime minister looked when she went to meet the king in comparison to Boris who normally turned up for everything looking like he had slept in a skip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 808 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 Sorry to upset you Jill i did not know who wrote it but Ron Goodwins orchestra was playing it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 I'm not upset, Ian ...but I probably would be if I had to listen to it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,158 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 1 hour ago, LizzieM said: How did all these individuals get into St Paul’s for the Thanksgiving Service, were they invited or did they hang about outside hoping to get in the door? Am I old-fashioned thinking that the congregation should have made a bit of an effort dress-wise at such an event, especially as it’s televised worldwide? A lot of the people there were downright scruffy, open-neck shirts, T shirts, I even saw a large woman in a tracksuit! When Diana’s funeral cortège drove up the M1 through Hertfordshire I stood on the hard shoulder wearing a black jacket, to me it was only right. Exactly what i thought Lizzie...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 50 minutes ago, RadFordee said: @LizzieMi said to hey arnold earlier how smart and well turned out the new prime minister looked when she went to meet the king in comparison to Boris who normally turned up for everything looking like he had slept in a skip. I agree about Boris, he always looks a mess but he did give a very good speech today. However, I’m sure Liz Truss was able to pull her favourite LBD out of the wardrobe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hey Arnold 88 Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 I believe that the congregation were at St. Paul's to pay their respects to The Queen and were simply invited to attend if they wished to, hence the casual dress of the majority there. That was what was said on the TV earlier Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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