RTE covered the Party in the Park from 8:00pm (breaking into it half an hour late) and ended straight after the concert at 11:10-ish. The fireworks were not shown.
The presentation was in 4:3 and was presented by RTE's most annoying DJ, Dave Fanning, who talks at the speed of light. RTE saw it purely as a pop event, they obviously did not want to be seen as promoting the Jubilee.
No credits of any sort were shown,just a "Party in the Park" caption at either end.
There was virtually no coverage of the Jubilee on American TV. The only coverage I saw was some one hour special 'Great Performances' on PBS and from the half-hour BBC World News bulletins.
There was one point on CNN when they were showing, I think, Prince Charles speech and the Paul McCartney came on and began singing some song...anyway CNN said that they can't show the song because the BBC has exclusive coverage rights to it...a little strange....
RTL 4 / RTL Nieuws had some special reports. RTL Boulevard (Dutch Liquid News) had a coverstory yesterday.
:-(
A former member
The event was naturally shown in all the main news broadcasts here in Greece, with some stations going in to more depth than others. Remember, Greece got rid of their monarchy not too long ago...
And on Tuesday night, STAR (unannounced) cleared its night schedule and broadcast the concerts, subtitled.
I wish there had been some indication they were going to do this as I would have recorded it.
Caught Lenny Henry taking the proverbial out of Prince Charles. Made me laugh, anyway...
TO
Tom41
I remember hopping around various foreign TV channels (both at home and at Uni). I know that CNN did some coverage of the Jubilee parade and celebrations, and most European channels featured clips of the parade on their news programmes. CNBC also mentioned the Jubilee, but still had their financial information tickers running along the bottom.
In the UK, I thought BBC1's coverage was the best, closely followed by Sky News. ITN News Channel was probably the worst.
The Queen Mother's funeral, on the other hand, was a different story - nearly EVERY news channel in the UK was showing live coverage (so were BBC1 and ITV1), and nearly all the European and Asian channels were showing it too!
