It's a shame Philip didn't reach 100. So close. I know 99 is a good innings but it would have been nice to make it.
It must be odd recording your comments about a loved one whilst they are alive, for broadcast when they are dead. Not something I'd want to do. Members of the Royal Family.
The Scottish Green Party were able to express their sorrow more widely, thanks to the purdah season.
Tributes are paid in Scotland to the Duke of Edinburgh following his death at the age of 99.
www.bbc.co.uk
I think may be they should pause campaigning until after the funeral. Just so there can be less junk mail through the door for a the next week.
The BBC coronavirus live report page stopped reporting at noon. It's still showing as live.
I guess there was no time to switch it to an as it happened page, as is usually the case. I wonder if it will remain like that for a long time to come.
The first BBC live reporting page on Prince Philio had to be removed due to technical issues. It started at 12:19. The second one was after 14:00 hours at some point. The first one was removed as the link to it didn't work.
I attempted to capture the moment BBC programs switched to the news but as some had finished I wasn't able to so for all, save 6 Music, whereby the 30-minute guest mix had been auto uploaded before the BBC could pause it from doing so. The mix faded out. Radio 2 was more abrupt. Not sure who was standing in for Jeremy Vine.
Any program that was due to end at say 13:00 is currently not available but any program which stopped before 12:00 is available. That was the case yesterday evening.
At one stage Dad's Army from 12:00 was available on Radio 4 Extra. That was uploaded rather than a live Radio 4 Extra recording, so it didn't have the announcement but the live broadcast would have done
It was later taken down but the early morning broadcast wasn't.
BBC 2 and 5 Live had the news first. BBC 2 was broadcasting the news and so the announcement was made at 12:04. Some more things were said and they ended by repeating this announcement. Then it faded to black. Now it was 12:09. There was a black BBC News logo screen and The announcement was made again, this time with BBC One included. So it must have taken 4-5 minutes to get stuff together for the official announcement broadcast. BBC One was broadcasting a paramedics documentary, which was faded out not too long before it ended.
On 5 Live you could hear someone in the background talking to the presenter, which was unusual. The presenter, not sure who it was as it may have been a stand-in, was hesitating at times probably waiting for instructions as to what to say.
One online newspaper, I forget which, reported that radio stations switched to radio 4 for the announcement. However, on some radio stations you could end the brief end of Prince Philip, as whoever was broadcasting on 5 Live at the time, was playing a clip of Prince Philip just before the announcement again on that station. The joint radio announcement was at 12:10 so it must have taken slightly longer to get ready to switch over all the radio stations. I'm sure it was Evan Davis who announced it as he was name-checked on radio 4. So it could be that radio 4 produced it, 5 Live carried the radio 4 feed and many other radio stations carried the 5 Live feed of the Radio 4 feed.
The only radio stations not to have the same coverage were those not in English or the children radio station, CBBC.
The national radio program ended at 17:00 at which point the various radio stations then broadcast their own BBC News Specials, a bet almost all carrying the same program name, to confuse matters. However, to confuse matters even further, most radio stations had a BBC News Special listed from 12:00 to 16:00 and from 16:00 to I think 20:00. So the last hour of the national news special was included in the second. The news special actually started at 12:10.
On TV BBC One, BBC Two, BBC News, BBC Parliament, BBC Alba and BBC Scotland were broadcasting the news special, as far as I can tell. S4C, the Welsh Channel 4, was also covering it in Welsh. Later they listed the BBC One News Special as starting at 11:45. It didn't. This matters because if anyone is doing historical research into TV programs, the information will be wrong.
Tonight BBC 4 was broadcasting a loop of a video of crowds chanting. Mostly male and occasionally the odd female in the crowd. There was a message to say you could watch the England match online. No mention of it being on the Red Button. This was out of respect for Prince Philip. It was a women's international friendly.
5 Live was broadcast a men's football match and 5 Live Sports Extra the Masters. So I don't know what that says about their marks of respect to Prince Philip.
LBC is a phone in station but they weren't taking many calls today from the public. I didn't listen to all of their coverage but it wasn't until after 22:00 that I heard Ian Dale give out the phone number. They were reading tweets and texts but not taking phone calls. I don't know if there is a protocol that doesn't allow for people to phone in or they think people have nothing worth saying
I'm not against them speaking to experts but I enjoy hearing other peoples views and thoughts. It doesn't feel like it was Leading Britain's Conversation today.
Also was it my mishearing or did I hear Jemey Corbyn on an LBC broadcast feature paying respect to Prince Philip. These things would have been pre-recorded and put together