The Royal Wedding

Ahead of the big day, here’s the cover of the Royal Wedding guide that was put together for ITV News staff involved in producing tomorrow’s programme:

http://www.networkfirst.tv/ITV_News_Royal_Wedding_Guide_2011.jpg

Good luck to everybody.

That's nice - apart from the word 'guide'.

Rumour has it that WAS ITV's studio, but they have swapped with NBC... (ITV presumably pocketed a nice sum - and know that nobody will be watching, and even if they do they don't make any money because there won't be any adverts?)

I see that Paul Harrison will be attending the wedding in Westminster Abbey will a few other invited journalists. Anyone have any idea who else has been invited? Presumably Tom Bradby is one of them.

Is this before or after the wedding? I imagine unslightly growths could be irritating for HD viewers.

The owners of BBC Canada - Shaw Media, announced a while back they were going to be broadcasting the coverage from BBC One. I checked their website, it's on there now from 4am ET. In terms of audience share, BBC Canada doesn't really rate that high. It was launched in 2001 with like 30 or 40 other speciality services that you have to subscribe to individually for about 2 dollars a channel. It's a channel that runs itself, in fact they have to run Canadian content on the channel (all Canadian television channels must run Canadian content of some kind).

Shaw Media also owns Global (Canada's third national network) - they're doing an entire special, they're sending their lead national news anchor and other key reporters to London (same with CTV, they're sending two anchors, Lloyd Robertson and Lisa LaFlamme - she'll be taking over for Robertson later this year when he retires) and yes Mansbridge will be outside Westminster Abbey so we may very well have Mansbridge vs. Edwards if the circumstances were right

Yeah could be. Tbh honest I don't think it matters that much where ITV have their studio and as it's costing ITV/ITN a rumoured £1m for tomorrow's coverage( compared to an apparent £2m for the BBC) so it's a clever way to make some back.

And you put a ? at the end of adverts, I wasn't sure if ITV just wouldn't have ad's during the parts fully invloving the Royal family i.e up until say 2pm, as I believe that's the only thing ITV are required to do by law. But in the ITV local news preview, Mary said something along the lines of uniterupted for 7 & 1/2 hours.

Tom Bradby has always been attending as a friend of the couple, note in the article posted from the Mirror, how it describes him as the only journalist to be in the Abbey for the ceremony. Whereas now, Harrison, as well as 24 other journalists from around the world, have also been invited.

Brian Williams flew over to London to ancnhor tonights NBC Nightly News, but because of the scale of the Tornados last night in the U.S. (over 170 in one night), he flew back to anchor the programme from New York. Matt Lauer had already arrived to join Meredith Vierer to anchor the Today Show from London, but they dropped their special Royal Wedding titles, and, obviously, have led with the aftermath of the storms.

He blogs his reason to return

http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/04/28/6551774-reason-to-return

X Factor stage manager to direct royal wedding coverage: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/royalwedding...

The BBC News channel began the 2 o'clock hour with special titles featuring photographs of William and Kate.

Babita Sharma is reporting live from outside Buckingham Palace.