One of the UK’s most revered broadcasters has revealed the level of control exerted by the British Royal Family over broadcasters’ rights for the Queen’s funeral.
David Dimbleby, one of the BBC’s presenters for the huge service last month, told Henley Book Festival, that as he broadcast from St George’s Chapel in Windsor – where the Queen was buried in the final ceremony of the day – the BBC was receiving emails “almost simultaneously” from palace officials, dictating which clips of footage could not be shown in any subsequent broadcast.
Dimbleby told the Festival: “Prince George touching his nose, don’t show it. And it went on. Beatrice and Eugenie leaving St George’s, not to be shown.
“There was this complete list of things that no broadcaster could show because the copyright belongs to Buckingham Palace. I think that’s wrong, just wrong.”
Dimbleby also voiced his...
David Dimbleby, one of the BBC’s presenters for the huge service last month, told Henley Book Festival, that as he broadcast from St George’s Chapel in Windsor – where the Queen was buried in the final ceremony of the day – the BBC was receiving emails “almost simultaneously” from palace officials, dictating which clips of footage could not be shown in any subsequent broadcast.
Dimbleby told the Festival: “Prince George touching his nose, don’t show it. And it went on. Beatrice and Eugenie leaving St George’s, not to be shown.
“There was this complete list of things that no broadcaster could show because the copyright belongs to Buckingham Palace. I think that’s wrong, just wrong.”
Dimbleby also voiced his...
- 10/7/2022
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Veteran Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow will step down at the end of the year after 32 years at the helm of the U.K. broadcaster’s flagship news program, the longest in the show’s history.
His career with ITN, the company which produces news for Channel 4 and ITV, spanned 45 years.
Continuing to work with Channel 4 in 2022, Snow will front longer form projects that focus on his charities and his other passions, including peoples’ stories, inequality, Africa, Iran and the arts.
Snow began his career in journalism for Independent Radio News, Lbc in 1973. He started at ITN in 1976 and served as Washington correspondent (1983–1986) and as diplomatic editor (1986–1989) before becoming the main presenter of Channel 4 News in 1989.
As a journalist, globally important stories he has covered include the fall of Idi Amin in Uganda; the revolution in Iran; the wars in Iraq and conflicts in Israel and the Palestinian...
His career with ITN, the company which produces news for Channel 4 and ITV, spanned 45 years.
Continuing to work with Channel 4 in 2022, Snow will front longer form projects that focus on his charities and his other passions, including peoples’ stories, inequality, Africa, Iran and the arts.
Snow began his career in journalism for Independent Radio News, Lbc in 1973. He started at ITN in 1976 and served as Washington correspondent (1983–1986) and as diplomatic editor (1986–1989) before becoming the main presenter of Channel 4 News in 1989.
As a journalist, globally important stories he has covered include the fall of Idi Amin in Uganda; the revolution in Iran; the wars in Iraq and conflicts in Israel and the Palestinian...
- 4/29/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Rich stash of props, mikes, cameras and slices of the action from 90 years of broadcasting are given to the National Media Museum
The BBC is alive and well and doing good things as ever; and among the latter is the gift of 946 historic items to the National Media Museum in Bradford.
Announced this morning, the huge goody-bag includes a very rare 1930 Blattnerphone with its steel tape to record sound (including Neville Chamberlain's announcement of war in 1939) and a radio disguised a biscuit tin, one of a series dropped by parachute to the French Resistance during the Second World War.
The collection is still being sorted and transferred to the museum's safe-keeping, but the first selection of interesting highlights goes on display in Bradford this Wednesday 14 November – 90 years to the day after the BBC's first broadcast. There will also be an online gallery on the museum's website but you can't beat...
The BBC is alive and well and doing good things as ever; and among the latter is the gift of 946 historic items to the National Media Museum in Bradford.
Announced this morning, the huge goody-bag includes a very rare 1930 Blattnerphone with its steel tape to record sound (including Neville Chamberlain's announcement of war in 1939) and a radio disguised a biscuit tin, one of a series dropped by parachute to the French Resistance during the Second World War.
The collection is still being sorted and transferred to the museum's safe-keeping, but the first selection of interesting highlights goes on display in Bradford this Wednesday 14 November – 90 years to the day after the BBC's first broadcast. There will also be an online gallery on the museum's website but you can't beat...
- 11/12/2012
- by Martin Wainwright
- The Guardian - Film News
Ashton Kutcher might have coined the term, but it was Richard Dimbleby--as in, the usually somber BBC news anchor--who pioneered the “punk.” On April 1, 1957, during his widely respected news program, Panorama, Dimbleby voiced a two-minute segment on “spaghetti harvesting” in Switzerland (right). As he championed the practice, viewers watched “real” footage of spaghetti farmers pulling pasta from trees. “There’s nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti,“ he concluded.
The footage, of course, was fake. But its impact was very real: Hundreds of viewers called the BBC, wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. (The network’s response: “Take a sprig of pasta, place it in tomato sauce, and wait.”) Today, the gag remains one of the greatest corporate stunts of all time, according to the Museum of Hoaxes.
Since the BBC broadcast, many big-name brands, like Google, Microsoft and Burger King, have played their own April Fools’ Day pranks.
The footage, of course, was fake. But its impact was very real: Hundreds of viewers called the BBC, wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. (The network’s response: “Take a sprig of pasta, place it in tomato sauce, and wait.”) Today, the gag remains one of the greatest corporate stunts of all time, according to the Museum of Hoaxes.
Since the BBC broadcast, many big-name brands, like Google, Microsoft and Burger King, have played their own April Fools’ Day pranks.
- 4/1/2009
- by Dan Macsai
- Fast Company
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