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The BBC have been overwhelmed with complaints about coverage of Prince Philip

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 10/04/2021 12:29

Showing the same thing on 2 channels simultaneously.

Now you just enter your email to complain as they couldn’t cope with the amount of complaints.

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TonTonMacoute · 10/04/2021 14:34

I have complained about radio 4/4 Extra because it is identical on both channels!

I would be a bit annoyed if it was different - but it's exactly the same content!!!

SauvignonBlanche · 10/04/2021 14:34

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

It’s not about finding something else to do, or watching another channel.

It’s about the fact that the national tv service has been hijacked by an event that to a lot of people isn’t that important. Yet they are are being subject to something that the BBC believes is important.

It’s mainly irrelevant today. One channel for thise who want to watch it is fine. Every channel and media blackouts is propoganda

Exactly - I totally understand that the death of this 99 year old is a big deal due to him being the DoE and would fully expect a lot of coverage but on simultaneous channels is ridiculous as not everyone is interested.

Off to read the article about what to expect when HMTQ goes.

TheVampiresWife · 10/04/2021 14:34

FFS, it's not about missing a TV show! It's the cringeworthy, forelock tugging obsequiousness of our national broadcaster showing the same stuff on five channels. It's embarrassing.

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Turquoisesea · 10/04/2021 14:35

^ I personally think that's why there's been so many, or why we're hearing about it more.
Other times you'd have had to go to the trouble of as you say writing in - penning a Disgusted From Tunbridge Wells" type letter and sending it off to Ann Robinson grin
Now you can bang off an email in seconds, create a MN thread, or take to Twitter and tag all the articles saying how excessive and unnecessary it all is..... ^

this

MarshaBradyo · 10/04/2021 14:35

@TheVampiresWife

FFS, it's not about missing a TV show! It's the cringeworthy, forelock tugging obsequiousness of our national broadcaster showing the same stuff on five channels. It's embarrassing.
Some love it but not enough going by the plummeting figures.
RaspberryCoulis · 10/04/2021 14:35

@DoingItMyself

I understand the need to show respect and concern, but one channel would have been enough. Even for me.
Exactly. One channel only.

Within an hour or two yesterday they'd run out of things to say. There's only so often you can say "Prince Philip has died, wasn't he a great bloke and a huge support to the Queen".

24 hours in and they're still giving it wall to wall coverage and starting to get desperate about who they interview.

AsMuchUseAsAMarzipanDildo · 10/04/2021 14:36

Meh! I’m not a Royalist so didn’t watch it. But I’m also not a football fan so didn’t watch the wall-to-wall World Cup coverage. I don’t complain about that, so why would I complain about covering Prince Philip’s death? No sense adding further upset to a grieving family.

canigooutyet · 10/04/2021 14:37

CBBC also disrupted!?

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bbc-prince-philip-death-complaints-b1829496.html

Good on Channel 4 and 5 who carried on with their regular scheduing.

TookHerForADrinkOnTuesday · 10/04/2021 14:37

How many hours can a ‘royal correspondent’ stand outside Windsor Castle in the cold with a handful of gawkers behind her talking about the DofE? It was overkill yesterday.

Sports on BBC1, ITV and C4 today, so they weren’t going to cancel the big money viewing for it.

Genderwitched · 10/04/2021 14:38

It's utterly pathetic that people do not have the resilience or ingenuity to cope for a short while without television. What is actually the matter with you. It doesn't matter what the reason is, the fact is it happened and all you could do was whinge and moan.

And to go to the actual trouble of writing to complain, have you no pride. I'd be seriously looking at myself if I had done this. I mean how on earth do you cope with real life. It's astounding.

AnnieAnoniMouse · 10/04/2021 14:39

I'm disgusted that people are complaining about it.

AbsolutelyPatsy · 10/04/2021 14:39

i blame mumnset for quoting the link for complaints,

i am enjoying steve wright so far

Siepie · 10/04/2021 14:39

@Itsalwayssunnyin

I honestly couldn’t find it in me to care enough to actually complain. I am always surprised by people’s outrage over things that just shouldn’t really be a problem.

I can’t imagine feeling compelled to complain about something like this. It’s so baffling that people use their time in this way.

It took me less than 10 seconds to add my email address on the link shared, while sitting feeding DS anyway. I'm not outraged, just giving feedback to a service that I legally have to give £159 a year to.

I find it more baffling that some people use hours of their time watching repeated footage about a man they've never met, but I don't begrudge them doing so. I'm just not convinced they needed 4 channels and another channel taken off air!

SempreSuiGeneris · 10/04/2021 14:39

I think it does grate because so many ordinary people have been deprived of the right to be close to their dying relatives and grieve them properly. The juxtaposition with State imposed remembrance is tone deaf.

Roussette · 10/04/2021 14:40

Off to read the article about what to expect when HMTQ goes

It really might depress you a bit @SauvignonBlanche
This is nothing compared to a month of this.... Shock

TheVampiresWife · 10/04/2021 14:41

@Genderwitched

It's utterly pathetic that people do not have the resilience or ingenuity to cope for a short while without television. What is actually the matter with you. It doesn't matter what the reason is, the fact is it happened and all you could do was whinge and moan.

And to go to the actual trouble of writing to complain, have you no pride. I'd be seriously looking at myself if I had done this. I mean how on earth do you cope with real life. It's astounding.

As I keep saying, it's not about 'coping without television' as quite demonstrably, nobody had to do that.

It's about showing the same content on several channels and suspending others, and how utterly embarrassing that is. It's 2021, for heaven's sake, and we're not a country of medieval serfs.

TookHerForADrinkOnTuesday · 10/04/2021 14:41

God forbid people wanted to know what was going on with the pandemic, the riots in Northern Ireland or any other news story. Yes, what IS wrong with people? 24 hours of Gyles Brandreth gushing about the royal family...so much more important.

HereBeFuckery · 10/04/2021 14:42

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

It’s not about finding something else to do, or watching another channel.

It’s about the fact that the national tv service has been hijacked by an event that to a lot of people isn’t that important. Yet they are are being subject to something that the BBC believes is important.

It’s mainly irrelevant today. One channel for thise who want to watch it is fine. Every channel and media blackouts is propoganda

You're conflating two points and using emotive language. It's not 'hijacking', it's a change to scheduled programming. 'Hijacking' is an unauthorised takeover. You dislike it, that's clear, and you're entitled to your view, but that is an inaccurate description.

You also argue that it's 'not about finding something else to do' but your objection is that there is a lot of coverage on tv. So why isn't it about finding something else to do? You don't want to watch. Lots of people do. You go and do something else, and the people who want to can watch. Problem solved. Lots of people do want to watch! That's okay, they are allowed to feel differently to you. Your view and theirs are both valid. However, he is only going to die once, so coverage at the time, the one and only time this happens, to suit those who are interested, do care, and want to watch it, is appropriate.

I posted earlier saying how strongly I dislike football. I don't complain to broadcasters that they show it, I find something else to do and accept that in a civilised country, we have to give and take. I may privately roll my eyes at how much national media is devoted to slavish following of a sport best suited to pre school children, but I accept that others like it, and that's fine. I accept that each match is a one off, and live coverage for those who like and want it is appropriate.

RichardMarxisinnocent · 10/04/2021 14:42

I know right. Do they have nothing else but Corrie etc?

Is it necessary to be so dismissive and superior about other people's lives and interests? My dad didn't really have any interests others than Corrie and other soaps, going for a walk, and sometimes reading. He absolutely hated missing his favourite TV programmes and used to get very stressed if there was a possibility he was going to miss them.

Roussette · 10/04/2021 14:43

24 hours of Gyles Brandreth gushing about the royal family.

And that old windbag Nicholas Witchell who apparently hasn't had any sleep for 24 hours.

ShesMadeATwatOfMePam · 10/04/2021 14:43

I complained just now, thanks for the heads up. Seems like the bbc want to remind us all who our lord and masters are. He's no more important than bob down the road to be honest. All the forelock tuggers can carry on weeping with just one channel they didn't need every channel and every radio station, and almost every slot on bbcs news website. Even bloody cbeebeies for gods sake. As if 4 year olds could give any less of a shit.

AbsolutelyPatsy · 10/04/2021 14:43

agree @AnnieAnoniMouse

worried3012 · 10/04/2021 14:44

Jeez people really went out of their way to complain about this? Granted it's a little annoying but not totally unexpected and what is complaining after the event going to change? Nothing can beat that week when Princess Diana died and back to back coverage every day. Heck, nothing can beat when Michael Jackson died and every radio station played song after song Grin

Theunamedcat · 10/04/2021 14:44

What state imposed remembrance? Are we being forced to watch? Is it worse than clap for fucking carers bang shit for boris shine a light for everyone? By all means tell the BBC to stick to one channel only but don't exaggerate

PMcGintysGoat · 10/04/2021 14:44

I'm neither royalist nor republican but I found the BBC's coverage felt very unpleasantly like state mandated national grief, and it was distasteful. We don't tug our forelocks as our betters go past these days, we don't need to be forced into mourning for a very old man we didn't know.

Make the announcement on every channel by all means, then keep one for coverage for those who want it and allow those who don't feel any particular attachment to someone they've never met to go about their business.

Reading back over what I've just written it feels surprisingly harsh, but perhaps covid has made us all focus a bit more on our own struggle, and on people we actually know - god knows alot of horrible stuff had happened to people I do know this year, I certainly have less energy to worry about what is, after all, a normal event, affecting someone I don't know.