Too much information

The BBC are facing lots of complaints about what they did in terms of broadcasting generally the evening of Prince Philip’s death. I do think they occasionally lose the plot around certain issues, and they lost huge swathes of watchers on the Friday evening. They even closed down BBC4 for the whole evening.
Most of the channels use those strap lines at the bottom of the screen for rolling news programmes. At least they help those hard of hearing.....

Channels like BBC News always have rolling news at the bottom as do most news channels including Sky. I think what happens is that for the things you mention they use the BBC News Channel format rather than say the usual BBC News at 6.00pm. Apparently the BBC News Channel is available across the world so that could be an explanation as to why?It gets worse if you are unfortunate enough to require the subtitles on! The BBC have come in for a lot of criticism for the blanket coverage of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. The same output was broadcast simultaneously on BBC1,BBC2 and BBC News. They even took BBC Four off air!!! Now I appreciate that at times like this the BBC has a duty, as national broadcaster, to broadcast extensive coverage of these sorts of events. They are probably dammed if they do and dammed if they don't?

David

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The BBC website has an online complaints form available and I understand it has been extremely well used in the last few days.

It’s the sort of decision that might have had HRH muttering something like “bloody ridiculous” to be honest. We had Channel4 news on (incidentally had highest viewing figures that night) just to catch up with odds and ends, then had a browse at Beeb4, only to find it wasn’t there! At first I thought it might be because it’s going to become an “archives only” channel, but then it was mentioned in news next day.

I have no doubt much of what the Beeb were broadcasting on all its channels was of interest to many, but likewise there’s only so much of one topic you can absorb, and personally I’m not a huge fan of the way every ounce of a tenuous link is repeated over and over again. It’s not something I’d complain about as we don’t watch what it might have replaced anyway, but just thought it a slightly odd decision. 

Just before the gun salutes yesterday the BBC produced the most pompous whatsitted cleric of no known origin (to me) who proceeded to say the queen would die and would be preparing for that already...

I immediately switched to ITV, opened a window too and heard the solemn and perfect tolling of the muffled bell from our church tower.

I don't think the coverage is more than needed as we won't see many more like Prince Philip in our life time, someone who has spanned the generations. So I won't be adding to the complaints list. But some of the comments have been dire.

I'm old enough to remember a blank TV screen when a major event happened. 

The same thing happened yesterday during the 41 gun salute for Prince Philip. Many of the guns couldn't actually be seen for the same reason as above, particularly Cardiff Castle. Why broadcast something that can't be seen.

I also found it most annoying. I was watching on the BBC news channel which always has them, so switched to BBC 1, but it was the same on there.😡

I found much of the output on Friday interesting, however it did seem a bit odd it being on 1, 2 and the News. 1 and the News  makes sense, as the News channel isn’t available all over the UK. Why they also had to tie up channel 2 is a mystery.

I can’t agree with you about the amount of coverage, Brue. Of course there should have been airtime devoted to it but not to the point of saturation which has alienated a lot of people and, by association, done the Royal Family no favours in terms of popularity. It's perfectly possible and right to pay respect and honour the deceased in a sensible and balanced manner.

I, too, am old enough to remember the old days but that was then and this is now - a whole different world and a very different mood in the population.

You could see the guns on ITV and there was a very informative commentary and history about each emplacement shown.

It doesnt concern me too much TW, I'm not that much of a TV watcher but I did miss Gardener's World (twice. )

Oops I read posts in the wrong order and hadn't realised the OP is writing about a lot of other things concerned with broadcasts in general.