The most complained about event in BBC History

Certainly, this is a rehearsed scenario, but it’s based on protocols written before multiple TV and radio channels, let alone 24hr rolling news, web based broadcast etc etc.

Im fairly sure there’s high level meetings planned over the next month to look at how these protocols get amended to account for modern broadcasting.

 

North Korean TV would have been proud of this coverage

 

From what I hear the coverage sounded ridiculous. I hardly noticed as sport aside I don't watch any live TV. Wish I didn't need to pay for the bbc so I can have sky TV.

 

I didn't get any. Stop whining and take back control.

 

Well, they can hardly do Iess for the Queen than they have for her husband , so no matter how many complaints I think they will stick to plan A when it happens. Plus there will be more to cover as it will be a state funeral with dignitaries from all over the world attending, endless discussions about should Charles abdicate and what sort of King he'd make etc etc.

 

Do you know the best way to "complain" about things like this? Don't watch the coverage. Not on the BBC, ITV, or any of the 24-hour news channels. Vote with your feet(or remotes) and hit them in their viewing figures. With the amount of different ways to consume TV these days, what with IPTV, streaming services, catch-up services, online, DVD, Blu-Ray, and even VHS if you're that way inclined, there is always plenty of choices. If you have Sky, Virgin or a Freeview box that can record, watch something off there.

I personally watched about 2 hours of the coverage, as I always do when something has that "historical" feel to it, then started binge-watching Ash vs Evil Dead. I honestly had no clue that the big 3 terrestrial channels were covering it wall to wall.

 

Good job my grandads dead when Diana died I’d just stumbled in from some dodgy club high on life having had no sleep and not seen the news. Me grandad rang up saying “it should’ve been a bus trip”. Took me ages to work out what he was talking about.

 

Discussing the death of someone and an episode of Eastenders or The One Show.

Blimey thats a tough one to call.

 

Not paid it in years

 

I haven't watched one minute of any coverage and I intend to carry on doing exactly that

 

I got multiple notifications from the Apple News app, some from BBC News app. From Sky News app, from Sky Sports news (?), multiple from Twitter (including the tweet the BFC Twitter put out), a couple from Reddit. Then I got a couple of messages from family members asking “have you seen that Prince Phillip has died?” As if it was possible to miss it.

 

me too , 1st sentence death of prince philip was somewhat surprised

 

Absolutely barmy, thank god for Netflix, Prime, etc

 

The problem there is that you have notifications turned on. I didn't get a single one.

 

I honestly cannot understand someone putting in a complaint about it (probably because I don't watch tv anyway). Why do people allow themselves to get that wound up about such unimportant stuff? If there's something you don't want to watch on tele then do something else. Read a book, bake something, talk to someone, watch tele but on free catch up, go on the internet, listen to music, literally do anything other than sit in front of the box for a few hours and then moan about it.

 

Must admit I was a bit gutted that the judging of GBM was postponed!

 

What! Cancelling Gardeners' World amounts to treason in my book.

 

One good thing is the amount of complaints may give the establishment the idea that maybe the Royal family is not the loved institution that they think it is.

 

Wasn't it a online for you could fill in? I mean it may well be the most complained about BBC event in history but its so easy to just fill a form in online.

 

Certainly wasn’t the queens day, they cancelled Pointless, one of her favourite programmes