Duke of Edinburgh dies

[Cleve van Leef]

BBC going OTT. Both BBC1 & BBC2 have same news on Phil’s passing. Why?

[Bluebirdman Of Alcathays]

BBC going OTT. Both BBC1 & BBC2 have same news on Phil’s passing. Why?

I found about his death on the BBC Sport website, for some reason. Simulcast across the board.

https://twitter.com/MarkHolt4/status...89633797177350

[xsnaggle]

BBC going OTT. Both BBC1 & BBC2 have same news on Phil’s passing. Why?

You think that's all??? you're way out.

I was driving a Merc Sprinter when the original news was broadcast. The BBC controls all the radio traffic in the UK and commercial stations pay to use it. Every single channel on the vehicle radio was locked. I could not even change the channel at all. It just wouldn't work.
And the band information was showing DAB FM and AM all at once, it was being broadcast simultaneously on all of them.

It's quite scary when you realise that the government of the day could do that and broadcast information they want to drown you with at any moment they wanted, and you can't turn it off. 1984 is closer than we know.
The channels were freed up sometime between 3 and 4 O'Clock.

[lardy]

You think that's all??? you're way out.

I was driving a Merc Sprinter when the original news was broadcast. The BBC controls all the radio traffic in the UK and commercial stations pay to use it. Every single channel on the vehicle radio was locked. I could not even change the channel at all. It just wouldn't work.
And the band information was showing DAB FM and AM all at once, it was being broadcast simultaneously on all of them.

It's quite scary when you realise that the government of the day could do that and broadcast information they want to drown you with at any moment they wanted, and you can't turn it off. 1984 is closer than we know.
The channels were freed up sometime between 3 and 4 O'Clock.

Is it the BBC doing it or the government? I lost track.

[xsnaggle]

Is it the BBC doing it or the government? I lost track.

/when it is considered necessary the two are the same thing.

[lardy]

/when it is considered necessary the two are the same thing.

Mmm ok

[Taunton Blue Genie]

BBC going OTT. Both BBC1 & BBC2 have same news on Phil’s passing. Why?

I am a big fan of the BBC but it's always incredibly sycophantic regarding the royal family. I was tuned into Radio 4 while driving to a walk I was leading on the South Devon Coast and as Radio 4 suspended its normal programming to convey the news ad nauseaum, I twiddled the knobs of the car radio and it was a full house. Radio stations 1, 2 and 4 (and probably 3) were all broadcasting the same very long tribute simultaneously in a way that seemed akin to what happens in Russia, China and North Korea. I daren't watch the news on TV tonight....

[light up the darkness]

I am a big fan of the BBC but it's always incredibly sycophantic regarding the royal family. I was tuned into Radio 4 while driving to a walk I was leading on the South Devon Coast and as Radio 4 suspended its normal programming to convey the news ad nauseaum, I twiddled the knobs of the car radio and it was a full house. Radio stations 1, 2 and 4 (and probably 3) were all broadcasting the same very long tribute simultaneously in a way that seemed akin to what happens in Russia, China and North Korea. I daren't watch the news on TV tonight....

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