@@gweilospur5877 I know what you mean I never met or spoken to the Queen sure I knew a bit about her but I didn't know who she truly was as a person yet I feel a great sense of loss
Of all people, Andrew Marr, a very experienced broadcaster with an even longer distinguished career in journalism. It just goes to show that even some journalists aren't quite as hard-bitten as we - and they - might think.
TalkTV had a similar reaction to the Queen's death except the main female anchor started to cry when she finds out saying "And I'm extremely sorry to have to bring you the exceptionally sad news that Her Majesty The Queen has died". She continues to weep as she immediately joined Mike Graham in the studio and continued her sadness into their conversation.
22:40 This is the radio station I listen to every day. Very emotional moment. I was listening to this show, and due to a poor signal, stopped listening around 6;15pm. With a better signal I listened to it at again at 7pm to hear the top of the hour headlines with no idea she had died, and instead of the 7pm news, it was talking about "King" Charles. I paused for a moment to work out if they was talking about a future time when she died or if she had died. When I realized I ran to tell my dad and put it on speaker , just in time for the Prime Ministers address to the nation. Was in shock and had goosebumps.
As an Australian, I didn't think it would upset me, but it did. At the very least it is a stark reminder of the passing of time and that none of us is immortal.
@@joshyboy1983 yeah instead things hit the fan they switch to another broadcast BBC admin just like swap broadcast it's happening get your suits and dresses on wear black ties.
To be fair, as a public broadcaster, BBC radio stations have been trained for years to be on standby + ready for any news or announcements related to royal families' death. As for privately owned commercial radio stations, they don't have the obligation to provide training to their DJs + staff and install special news alert equipments for the occasion.
@@izzatfauzimustafa6535 They certainly don't have the same levels of formal protocol binding them in the same way. Every station is meant to have some sort of plan, but how much of one exists for smaller ones? Put it this way, I was a student radio regular for three years (late 00s, but the Queen and her husband were already in their 80s then) and don't recall doing an obit shift. By fortunate coincidence, all the significant Royal deaths in modern times (Diana, Queen Mother, Philip, now Elizabeth II) have come outside term time...
Her life was truly remarkable. From serving in WWII as a truck mechanic/driver in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service to owning a Saudi king (Abdullah bin Abdulaziz) by showing him she can drive in her Land Rover when women in his country couldn't, and even staying on her horse when a 17-year-old was shooting at her. She was a one-of-a-kind monarch, and the UK won't be the same without her.
Even as an American I got emotional hearing this news. You dont even have to say Queen Elizabeth or Queen of England. Just say "The Queen" and everyone knows who you are talking about. We knew this day would come but didnt want to believe would ever come. The historical significance of this is just unreal.
To us she was only ever referred to as The Queen. The title King/Queen of England, by the way, became obsolete in 1771 when we became the United Kingdom.
The death of the Queen of England wouldn't have been " breaking news " ( 300 years ago ). Queen of the United Kingdom died in these announcements . Peace , a pedant ( I hate myself for it , wink!).
I had BBC Radio 2 on in the background, but due to the reports of the Queen's ill health I had my VPN on (I'm American) and was paying attention to BBC One TV online. BBC One announced it earlier than the radio did, but I heard God Save the King overlapping each other from two different places. Radio 2 was, from what I recall, playing its regular schedule and the DJs were doing their regular thing with the occasional "Well I hope the Queen will be alright". Every single BBC Radio station except CBeebies went into a several hours long special talking about the Queen, her life, and her accomplishments, alongside related news stories. Radio 3 went into peaceful classical a few hours later which I slept to that night. By the next day Radio 2 was back to playing music, but it was gentle, inoffensive, and soft, often with songs about missing others and being sad in general. They also had a sombre news sounder every hour.
Radio 2 actually had restrained programming. The news broke around 1:40 on Jeremy Vine's show (hosted that week by Tina Daheley), with some discussion up until the end of the show. Steve Wright's show was largely the same, but he was a much toned down figure than usual, as was the music. Sara Cox's show, by which time after 5pm things were not good, had none of the usual features, and was largely just toned down music and messages about the Queen, with the links also all toned down, probably in anticipation of the news to come.
@@EssexNonLeague OK, like I said I had it in the background but I still heard relatively cheerful songs and what I thought was a generally upbeat attitude like any other day.
@@MrIveyIsBonkers It certainly wasn't sombre music, but it was a little restrained. No new music. No Becky Hill and the like. Obviously very different music when they finally left the network feed at 6:30 the next morning, for Zöe's breakfast show.
Just for future info, the BBC drops the location-banning when it's for major events like this. BBC one/news was available to stream from anywhere in the world last Thursday, I'm not sure if they're still allowing everybody to stream for the current coverage, but it would be worth checking.
This takes me back to February 1952 when here, in Australia, we heard of the death of King George VI. ABC radio abandoned all scheduled programs and played solemn music, interspersed with news bulletins. We had no TV in those days.
I don't believe many people had TV back then. Indeed it was Elizabeth's coronation the following year that was the spur for many people to go and get a television - the start of the television era.
@@aerialexplorer772 The queens coronation was even the event for which they built up not only the BBC1 TV Network in the UK, but also the first intercontinental TV lines so that it could be seen all over the world. That's by the way one of the reasons it took one year between the death of King George VI and her coronation.
@@johndododoe1411 Yes, they weren't able to build TV cables everywhere (don't forget, at that time th UK still had many african colonies), but at least Australia and Canada got a life picture. Australia is even because of that part of the EBU, the european broadcasting union.
I remember finding out when I was listening to Dreams by Fleetwood Mac on BBC Radio 2 until it was interrupted. When I heard of the news, I shouted "OH SHIT!" multiple times... I will never forget that afternoon...
Fleetwood Mac: They will come, and they will go Listeners: True! Fleetwood Mac: When the rain washes you clean, you'll know- BBC Radio 2: *You'll know the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II* Definitely a coincidence that song was playing on Radio 2 when it was announced, especially since it's titled Dreams...as if to say the Queen will be having a permanent peaceful dream.
It's apparently a part of the pre-death/serious event protocols UK state-controlled broadcasters have: they'll start putting on sad and moody songs to reflect this mood, especially in the case of Queen Elizabeth II's demise UPDATE #1: This Wikipedia entry explains it here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_London_Bridge#:~:text=Operation%20London%20Bridge%20was%20the,her%20death%20in%20September%202022.
In each radio station they have something called an OBIT light which flashes when they are going to the news room shortly so they play a respectful song for the interruption
I'm in western NY, and i have been an admirer of the royal family and Queen Elizabeth II all my life. I was getting in my car after relocating a young snapping turtle when they interrupted my radio station with the BBC broadcast. My heart sank when they said the Queen died.
All the BBC radio stations broadcasted the death of Queen Elizabeth the same way as i believe it was the BBC radio 5 live news broadcast that was just broadcast across all national and local radio stations for the rest of the evening
BBC Radio 5 was not the main broadcaster. But out of all the BBC Radio channels, 4 & 5 where the only ones to have an announcement, before the main announcement.
It's actually Radio 4 which as the senior station all the other BBC stations cut to. The official announcement was read by their very experienced announcer and newsreader Chris Aldridge.
@@danielferris7960 Most stations continued with Radio 4 overnight, when it handed over to the World Service as usual. I think they then continued with Radio 4 before some left to start their breakfast shows. I believe Radio 1 switched to 5live around midnight, along with one or two others - 5live at this point had gone separate.
I was in work, sitting at my desk when I got about 30 notifications on my phone. I started crying immediately. I knew it was coming, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so soon.
I believe this is the list of songs that each of the pop music stations shown here played: BBC Radio 1 - Arlo Parks, "Eugene" BBC Radio 1 Dance - Kaz James, "Footprints" BBC Radio 2 - Fleetwood Mac, "Dreams" GHR - Labi Siffre, "(Something Inside) So Strong" Hits Radio - Adele, "Make You Feel My Love" Kiss - Ed Sheeran feat. Khalid, "Beautiful People" Capital - Post Malone and Doja Cat, "I Like You (A Happier Song)" Heart - OneRepublic, "I Ain't Worried" Radio X - Kings of Leon - "Fans" Virgin Radio - Adele, "Make You Feel My Love" Fun Kids - Sam Ryder - "SPACE MAN"
For Capital: If you were listening Capital from London, the song that was playing (and was cut-off) before the confirmation of HM's death was by Harry Styles "Late Night Talking" from his album "Harry's House".
The reaction of the LBC announcer reminds those here in the U.S. of Arthur Godfrey's coverage on CBS Radio in 1945 of the funeral procession for Franklin D. Roosevelt. He broke down on the air after the caisson carrying the late president's body from Union Station to the White House had passed his vantage point...
I was wondering that too. I mean, how exactly would you announce something like the queen’s death to kids listening to the radio? Would you even interrupt it just to help kids cope with the breaking news? I think when 9/11 happened, Nickelodeon did keep playing their programming as normal, because I remember flipping channels after school that day and the only channel I could watch without news coverage was Nickelodeon (followed by Disney)
@@feitocomfruta I far as I remember, I was 7 at the time, Nickelodeon did carry on as normal. I do remember that the teachers that were teaching the lower grades (kindergarten through 4th grade) were under strict orders not to let us know. The principal was going around every 15 minutes or so to keep them updated.
@@stacyk123 in high school (in the Philadelphia suburbs) when it happened. The TVs in the cafeteria were on, our teachers did let let us talk to some extent about it but still told us we had to cover our material in class. Overall, we were treated like adults in that instant: knowing we do understand what’s going on, and being frank about our reality.
As an American I was asleep and my kid woke me who who is half Scottish and said something happen to the Queen I woke up fast and could not believe it. I had to call friends in the UK to confirm it several because at first I thought it was a joke then realized its real and I started crying instantly and havent stopped crying since . I feel like I lost one of my family members. We all loved Queen Elisabeth and she will be greatly miss by us all
I'm certain that if it had happened before his illness he would never have cried on air like that. My Dad had the same kind of stroke that Andrew did, not affecting his speech, but he found himself bursting into tears at all sorts of things he never would have beforehand.
I was driving with my family along the A12 listening to Heart when the announcement was made. Its a moment I will never forget. Infinitely sad and driving became very difficult for me for a few minutes. A few people in other cars had pulled over on the side of the road for obvious reasons.
The sameness of the reports comes from the long-planned "London bridge" protocol, established to send out across all networks the same notice and the same script of what to say. Can you imagine being a young person working their first job at a radio station, and being given the script to break in and make the announcement. Surreal.
I think some people would argue it was unprofessional because many people had suspected such an announcement was coming as the afternoon wore on on the 8th September, but I think many more people would identify with the distress in Andrew Marr’s voice when he made the announcement on LBC. You really wouldn’t think the death of a 96 year old lady who had been unwell for some time would be a shock, but somehow it was. I was watching the news on TV when the announcement came, knowing the Queen was under the medical supervision of her doctors, but when the news of her death broke I was immediately in tears. The Queen has been a constant in the lives of so many of us for so long. She was a familiar face for her Christmas speeches and her appearances on the Buckingham Palace balcony in good times, but she was also a source of reassurance in bad times. One of her finest moments was the speech she made when the UK went into its first covid lockdown in 2020. Her calm authority at such a difficult time would teach the politicians a thing or two.
It was Tradition at the BBC that all studios had a special record case marked 'Music for a Solemn Occasion' - contained therein were LPs of music to be played, in place of normal programmes, on the death of HM or similarly important others.
Around London, Heart was in the middle of playing the OneReupblic top gun song, during the second chorus, they turned the music down and JK said “this is Heart, it’s 6:36, now for a special news report” And Capital was playing Late Night Talking
Quality of announcements goes Huw Edwards on BBC 1 and then straight to the lassie on Talk Sport. Perfect delivery of what everyone knew what was coming.
Just a reminder that none of us can beat the clock. We’re all just passing through our moment in time. Footprints on a sandy beach until the tide comes in & washes us away. Then all of a sudden, we’re gone.
For context I live in the United States of America, In the state of Mississippi. Last year, while I was entering my history classroom it was announced over the intercom that Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II passed away. We spent the rest of the day learning about her life, and all the things she had done and her impact on the world. For the British reading, I would like to apologize to anyone of my country who has mocked or joked about her passing away.
Canadian here. My husband and I were loading up to go camping when the news was reporting that the family was at her side. We had news updates on our way and when we reached our location and backed up to put the camper in place, the news broke. For some reason, it was a shock, we didn’t think it would happen so fast. The memory for us is that the town we’d arrived to camp in was Coronation, Alberta. How fitting of a town to be in when we heard the news.
Speaking of Alberta, I can't help but be reminded that the main highway between Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta Highway 2, is named for Queen Elizabeth II. It got that name in 2005 to commemorate Her Majesty's visit to Edmonton for Alberta's centennial celebration. Even Her Majesty's mother had a major Canadian highway named for her; the QEW (Queen Elizabeth Way) from Toronto to Niagara Falls is named for The Queen Mother. Obviously as a Commonwealth country, Canada has many things named after, and commemorating, members of the Royal Family.
Reminds me, I and my family left the house to go the local KFC drive thru, and as we were leaving we were taking that either she had already passed or is about to, got into the car and turned the radio, 0:22 this exact song was playing and not even 30 seconds before we even driven off, 0:41 the announcement came.
So excellently produced compilation. I can only imagine how it was like at the BBC Radio master control flipping all of their channels off and then going to one broadcast from BBC News.
It was around 130 in the United States, where I was eating my rice and beans in the student lounge to my university. I got the breaking news from my Apple Watch that her Majesty past away and I broke down and couldn't eat my food. Wile Got the news I was talking to my mother.
The one from Fun Kids--goosebumps when I heard the first few notes from "This Land" (from the soundtrack of "The Lion King"). I would've broken to tears if the entire piece was allowed to play.
I’m American and I was about to clock into work when I heard the news. I still haven’t been able to process it because I’ve had other things on my mind as well as being busy with work and college.
I'm glad that the BBC listened to the criticism following prince Philip's death. They seemed to have a rather normal, yet slightly sombre output. They didn't play any of the awful sad music like they did last year.
Radio 2 were still using the same OBIT playlist as last year. It's reverted to a slightly more standard playlist today, but still some songs missing, and still largely playing softer music. BBC stations still only playing a few jingles as well, or modified ones.
R. I. P. Queen Elizabeth II (1926 - 2022) 👑🕊 BBC Radio 1: 0:39 BBC Radio 1 Dance: 4:02 BBC Radio 2: 4:41 BBC Radio 3: 7:46 BBC Radio 4: 8:37 BBC Radio 5 Live: 12:47 Greatest Hits Radio: 17:13 Hits Radio: 18:17 Kiss: 19:50 Capital: 21:10 Heart: 22:02 LBC: 22:23 Radio X: 24:01 Talk Radio: 24:26 Talk Sport: 29:11 Times Radio: 30:10 Virgin Radio: 31:22 Fun Kids: 31:52
I don’t know what they were playing beforehand but Kerrang Radio just looked at their playlists, thought “yeah, apart from putting I Miss You by Blink 182 and Limp Bizkit’s cover of Behind Blue Eyes on repeat for ages there’s nothing we can play” and put classical music on instead.
Quiet classical music cutting to complete silence and then a loud voice announcing breaking news is so unnerving. It feels like they're about to say a nuke has been dropped or the world's about to end, maybe announcing evacuations due to a zombie apocalypse. Weird kind of horror.
i love how every news channel just breaks the news and plays the national anthem, whilst talksport get a bloody history lesson with an android-like voice
They announced it at 6:30pm, You could tell at like 2pm, 4 hours before the announcement that she was already gone as, the reporters were already all wearing black whilst reporting she was “comfortable”.
That's not quite right. The first statement about HM being under medical supervision along with the family heading up to Balmoral suggested that she was on the way out. However, the PM wasn't informed of HM's death until 16:30. There's no way that the press would have found out before the PM, nor would they sit on the information for 4.5 hours.
@@JD4-70 It really didn't take a lot to work out that the Queen's demise was how it was going to end based on the first statement and the fact that all the family was flying up to Balmoral. All I'm saying is that none of the media sat on any sort of confirmation that she had died for 4.5 hours.
you can hear someone (possibly the man speaking) shift around at 8:45, and he clearly terminates his sentence far quicker than he planned to. that'll be when the obit light went off alerting the studio of the situation, though the lady speaking likely have received in-ear comms while he was speaking just around the same time the light went off. edit: oh wow, you can hear the first man quite shaken when the second man directs back to him, though he does regain composure quite quickly.
obviously many people have commented on andrew marr's reaction, but i want to talk about how the talkradio & talksports hosts also very shaken. i think this demonstrates that these stations had notably less experience with reporting these kinds of events.
@@toranine09 that's an interesting observation. It's strange Claire McDonnell handled it so much better than Vanessa Feltz. Of the two, I would suggest that Vanessa Feltz is a bit more experienced. I know Claire McDonnell and Tony Livesey only had to do a few minutes before they threw to Radio 4 in London, but they sounded like they could have managed.
I KNOW this was coming but when it happens it still hits like the proverbial ton of bricks... I'm surprised, ih Ave such a pro found sense of loss that I have not felt since my own parents passed away. I was born in 1959 she had been onthe throñe for six years when I was born! I f I feel such loss ,oh Charles you are now King I don't know what to say. My con dolence .I can only imagine what mixed feelings you must be feeling now. The day you dreaded has finally come . I hope that God will give you the strength to help you through this process. Kj egan. Toronto
The BBC has the world's largest newsroom, and can air one breaking news report across all their networks simulcast at once, which is what happened with Radios 1, 2 and 3. Commercial radio has to wait for their song to end, as it is paid for, they are commercial stations after all, and have smaller newsrooms to cope with breaking news events.
My heat go out to the family of the queen it is so sad I feel like she has been everyone friend's she was such a beautiful lady the world will miss her 😭
My family is a big fan of classical music and we were listening to radio 3 as we usually do whilst eating tea we had just finished eating when the news broke. It was incredibly surreal.
My Grandaunt was born in 1952 and she died in 2016, she lived under the reign of Her Majesty all her life. I could not imagine what she would have felt if she was alive to see the death of Her Majesty the Queen. God Save the King
@@MrRatrox likely referring to how the host said there "tomorrow [...] there's meant to be a repeat". passive language, but while she was saying that the schedule would still have been the expected one - it wouldnt have changed until the announcement was made that, or the commenter is referring to the swell of music before the interruption
Any chance that you can find and upload how American all news radio stations like WBZ Boston, WCBS and WINS New York, KYW Philadelphia, WTOP Washington, WWJ Detroit, WBBM Chicago, KCBS San Francisco and KNX Los Angeles broke the news?
I work for a small specialist radio station and am very proud how we dealt with it, it was just a surreal is the only way I can explain it, we knew it was coming but just how can we do this right and get the tone right
@@dcarbs2979 Thank you very much. I saw that just recently, but at the time of her death announcement, I was travelling and heard it from someone that the Queen passed away. At that point, there was some reactions consisting of "oh shit" in a shock-driven manner, and I then shared the news on social media.
As an American, it was shocking to hear that she passed. Very sad. I can't imagine how my own country would have to deal with the death of an President in office. I think the last President who died in office was Lincolin. Either way, it's shocking and emotional. I've watched thousands of mourners in Westminster Abbey visiting HM Queen Elizabeth II. Very somber event. I hope the British find hope in their new King and Queen Consort.
What happened on talkSPORT afterwards did it join the newsroom I was looking to watch the United game that night before she died and then as soon as I saw it happened I thought I’ve got no chance of picking up any decent radio coverage
I mean, Fun Kids could of been like the CBBC and done a short documentary on the Queen, but on radio, but nope, they just change the song for no reason, with no context at all. They could of atleast finished Spaceman.
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poor Andrew from LBC he sounds devastated someone please give this man a hug and talk radio sounds sad too
Strange, I was devastated too and I never thought I would be that bothered.
There is video of the Talk Radio announcement (th-cam.com/video/gpxQlvLmxEE/w-d-xo.html)
don't know where we go from here tbh
@@gweilospur5877 I know what you mean I never met or spoken to the Queen sure I knew a bit about her but I didn't know who she truly was as a person yet I feel a great sense of loss
Get a grip
The LBC announcer... Oh my lord, that was heartbreaking
Of all people, Andrew Marr, a very experienced broadcaster with an even longer distinguished career in journalism. It just goes to show that even some journalists aren't quite as hard-bitten as we - and they - might think.
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TalkTV had a similar reaction to the Queen's death except the main female anchor started to cry when she finds out saying "And I'm extremely sorry to have to bring you the exceptionally sad news that Her Majesty The Queen has died". She continues to weep as she immediately joined Mike Graham in the studio and continued her sadness into their conversation.
@@eascec8374 you meaning talkradio?
@@Bruh-iv1dr No, they mean TalkTV. The "female anchor" they are referring to is Vanessa Feltz: th-cam.com/video/gpxQlvLmxEE/w-d-xo.html
22:40 This is the radio station I listen to every day. Very emotional moment. I was listening to this show, and due to a poor signal, stopped listening around 6;15pm. With a better signal I listened to it at again at 7pm to hear the top of the hour headlines with no idea she had died, and instead of the 7pm news, it was talking about "King" Charles. I paused for a moment to work out if they was talking about a future time when she died or if she had died. When I realized I ran to tell my dad and put it on speaker , just in time for the Prime Ministers address to the nation. Was in shock and had goosebumps.
Sorry :(
@@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977 ah thanks man! x
@Haha how do you mean
that's crazy! did you think that you were seeing the future for a second?
Rest in piss
As an Australian, I didn't think it would upset me, but it did. At the very least it is a stark reminder of the passing of time and that none of us is immortal.
well she is your queen. or was.
I'm Aussie too, she was the best 😢😢
No one is immortal? Well what about the queen? Hahaha-... oh...
pathetic
Yeah idgaf about the queen, but we are always one day closer to death...gulp
The BBC just have a degree of seamless professionalism absent from the rest.
They likely have a master switch at the HQ that switches over everything all at once. That's actually pretty damn neat!!
@@joshyboy1983 yeah instead things hit the fan they switch to another broadcast BBC admin just like swap broadcast it's happening get your suits and dresses on wear black ties.
Yep BBC TV and news cna just switch to one feed across networks. Very professional in the face of such sadness
To be fair, as a public broadcaster, BBC radio stations have been trained for years to be on standby + ready for any news or announcements related to royal families' death. As for privately owned commercial radio stations, they don't have the obligation to provide training to their DJs + staff and install special news alert equipments for the occasion.
@@izzatfauzimustafa6535 They certainly don't have the same levels of formal protocol binding them in the same way. Every station is meant to have some sort of plan, but how much of one exists for smaller ones? Put it this way, I was a student radio regular for three years (late 00s, but the Queen and her husband were already in their 80s then) and don't recall doing an obit shift. By fortunate coincidence, all the significant Royal deaths in modern times (Diana, Queen Mother, Philip, now Elizabeth II) have come outside term time...
Her life was truly remarkable. From serving in WWII as a truck mechanic/driver in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service to owning a Saudi king (Abdullah bin Abdulaziz) by showing him she can drive in her Land Rover when women in his country couldn't, and even staying on her horse when a 17-year-old was shooting at her. She was a one-of-a-kind monarch, and the UK won't be the same without her.
thank you Kim Jong-un for that touching remark, we will drop 7 sanctions in response
Wait what? (To the first one)
@@AlexCheerNZ bruh he’s gonna nuke USA. OH GOD THERES THE NUKE! HELP! I DONT HAVE MUCH TI
Even as an American I got emotional hearing this news. You dont even have to say Queen Elizabeth or Queen of England. Just say "The Queen" and everyone knows who you are talking about. We knew this day would come but didnt want to believe would ever come. The historical significance of this is just unreal.
To us she was only ever referred to as The Queen. The title King/Queen of England, by the way, became obsolete in 1771 when we became the United Kingdom.
@@christinewhitfeld7939 1707.
@@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977 sorry darling, my mistake. Yes, you are right.
The death of the Queen of England wouldn't have been " breaking news " ( 300 years ago ). Queen of the United Kingdom died in these announcements . Peace , a pedant ( I hate myself for it , wink!).
Unless you live in a country that has its own Queen.
I had BBC Radio 2 on in the background, but due to the reports of the Queen's ill health I had my VPN on (I'm American) and was paying attention to BBC One TV online. BBC One announced it earlier than the radio did, but I heard God Save the King overlapping each other from two different places. Radio 2 was, from what I recall, playing its regular schedule and the DJs were doing their regular thing with the occasional "Well I hope the Queen will be alright".
Every single BBC Radio station except CBeebies went into a several hours long special talking about the Queen, her life, and her accomplishments, alongside related news stories. Radio 3 went into peaceful classical a few hours later which I slept to that night. By the next day Radio 2 was back to playing music, but it was gentle, inoffensive, and soft, often with songs about missing others and being sad in general. They also had a sombre news sounder every hour.
Radio 2 actually had restrained programming. The news broke around 1:40 on Jeremy Vine's show (hosted that week by Tina Daheley), with some discussion up until the end of the show. Steve Wright's show was largely the same, but he was a much toned down figure than usual, as was the music. Sara Cox's show, by which time after 5pm things were not good, had none of the usual features, and was largely just toned down music and messages about the Queen, with the links also all toned down, probably in anticipation of the news to come.
@@EssexNonLeague OK, like I said I had it in the background but I still heard relatively cheerful songs and what I thought was a generally upbeat attitude like any other day.
@@MrIveyIsBonkers It certainly wasn't sombre music, but it was a little restrained. No new music. No Becky Hill and the like. Obviously very different music when they finally left the network feed at 6:30 the next morning, for Zöe's breakfast show.
Just for future info, the BBC drops the location-banning when it's for major events like this. BBC one/news was available to stream from anywhere in the world last Thursday, I'm not sure if they're still allowing everybody to stream for the current coverage, but it would be worth checking.
Andrew Marr breaking down really got to me. We knew it was coming but it’s still a shock.
This takes me back to February 1952 when here, in Australia, we heard of the death of King George VI. ABC radio abandoned all scheduled programs and played solemn music, interspersed with news bulletins. We had no TV in those days.
I don't believe many people had TV back then. Indeed it was Elizabeth's coronation the following year that was the spur for many people to go and get a television - the start of the television era.
@@aerialexplorer772 The queens coronation was even the event for which they built up not only the BBC1 TV Network in the UK, but also the first intercontinental TV lines so that it could be seen all over the world. That's by the way one of the reasons it took one year between the death of King George VI and her coronation.
@@acmenipponair I heard that some countries received the coronation on film or tape for broadcast shortly after the event.
@@johndododoe1411 Yes, they weren't able to build TV cables everywhere (don't forget, at that time th UK still had many african colonies), but at least Australia and Canada got a life picture. Australia is even because of that part of the EBU, the european broadcasting union.
I remember finding out when I was listening to Dreams by Fleetwood Mac on BBC Radio 2 until it was interrupted. When I heard of the news, I shouted "OH SHIT!" multiple times... I will never forget that afternoon...
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@@GeraltOfLibya I'm the same guy who posted those comments.
It was only three days ago!
Why are people freakin out the queen doesn’t even do anything
@@xWORLDxCHAMPIONx not anymore she doesn't, she's dead.
Fleetwood Mac: They will come, and they will go
Listeners: True!
Fleetwood Mac: When the rain washes you clean, you'll know-
BBC Radio 2: *You'll know the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II*
Definitely a coincidence that song was playing on Radio 2 when it was announced, especially since it's titled Dreams...as if to say the Queen will be having a permanent peaceful dream.
It's apparently a part of the pre-death/serious event protocols UK state-controlled broadcasters have: they'll start putting on sad and moody songs to reflect this mood, especially in the case of Queen Elizabeth II's demise
UPDATE #1: This Wikipedia entry explains it here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_London_Bridge#:~:text=Operation%20London%20Bridge%20was%20the,her%20death%20in%20September%202022.
In each radio station they have something called an OBIT light which flashes when they are going to the news room shortly so they play a respectful song for the interruption
@@gtagaming001 Yep
I'm in western NY, and i have been an admirer of the royal family and Queen Elizabeth II all my life. I was getting in my car after relocating a young snapping turtle when they interrupted my radio station with the BBC broadcast. My heart sank when they said the Queen died.
I was waiting for these videos, thank you!! It's so good to see how the difference companies announce the same thing.
Is that irony?
@@haroldnegba-pingo5489 what do you mean?
@@snapfoil5126 I was just asking if you were joking or being serious. No big deal, don't worry.
@@haroldnegba-pingo5489 oh right, I was actually being serious because I like seeing the videos of where all the radios announce it.
@@snapfoil5126 ok, well it felt like a good joke 😅 i didn't even realize you were actually interested in this.
All the BBC radio stations broadcasted the death of Queen Elizabeth the same way as i believe it was the BBC radio 5 live news broadcast that was just broadcast across all national and local radio stations for the rest of the evening
Have BBC World Service also joined?
BBC Radio 5 was not the main broadcaster. But out of all the BBC Radio channels, 4 & 5 where the only ones to have an announcement, before the main announcement.
It's actually Radio 4 which as the senior station all the other BBC stations cut to. The official announcement was read by their very experienced announcer and newsreader Chris Aldridge.
@@danielferris7960 Most stations continued with Radio 4 overnight, when it handed over to the World Service as usual. I think they then continued with Radio 4 before some left to start their breakfast shows. I believe Radio 1 switched to 5live around midnight, along with one or two others - 5live at this point had gone separate.
I was sat listening to bbc radio 1 on my lunch break and when that music stopped my whole body sank. R.I.P. Queen Elizabeth
I was in work, sitting at my desk when I got about 30 notifications on my phone. I started crying immediately. I knew it was coming, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so soon.
took Death 96 years to build up his courage to come knocking HM Queen's door
I like to think he brought Prince Philip with him to help ease Her Majesty’s journey.
@@gaiapurpure this is very wholesome
😏🙄
Hory shet the LBC host truly broke down
Yeah the nation is now mourning and will do until the 20th
I know right? Keep on weeping mister Andrew Marr
Very moving. I feel for several of those broadcasters who were so disturbed by having to report the news that also impacted them.
I believe this is the list of songs that each of the pop music stations shown here played:
BBC Radio 1 - Arlo Parks, "Eugene"
BBC Radio 1 Dance - Kaz James, "Footprints"
BBC Radio 2 - Fleetwood Mac, "Dreams"
GHR - Labi Siffre, "(Something Inside) So Strong"
Hits Radio - Adele, "Make You Feel My Love"
Kiss - Ed Sheeran feat. Khalid, "Beautiful People"
Capital - Post Malone and Doja Cat, "I Like You (A Happier Song)"
Heart - OneRepublic, "I Ain't Worried"
Radio X - Kings of Leon - "Fans"
Virgin Radio - Adele, "Make You Feel My Love"
Fun Kids - Sam Ryder - "SPACE MAN"
For Capital:
If you were listening Capital from London, the song that was playing (and was cut-off) before the confirmation of HM's death was by Harry Styles "Late Night Talking" from his album "Harry's House".
For Heart: ✓
I ain't touching the final ones... Brilliant effort tho!
For Capital Scotland they were playing a remixed version of someone you loved by Lewis Capaldi when the announcement happened
This is a piece of history. Thanks for recording and uploading this.
Andrew Marr made me cry again! Bless him! 💔
Andrew Marr LBC summed it up so moving!!
The reaction of the LBC announcer reminds those here in the U.S. of Arthur Godfrey's coverage on CBS Radio in 1945 of the funeral procession for Franklin D. Roosevelt. He broke down on the air after the caisson carrying the late president's body from Union Station to the White House had passed his vantage point...
A bit of an extreme reaction
It reminds me of George the sixth who passed away 70 years prior
Did FunKids really just play the sad theme from Lion King after Mufasa died?
I was wondering that too. I mean, how exactly would you announce something like the queen’s death to kids listening to the radio? Would you even interrupt it just to help kids cope with the breaking news?
I think when 9/11 happened, Nickelodeon did keep playing their programming as normal, because I remember flipping channels after school that day and the only channel I could watch without news coverage was Nickelodeon (followed by Disney)
From what I hear, as part of "London Bridge" protocol, kids stations were to play instrumental versions of somber songs from kids and family movies.
@@feitocomfruta I far as I remember, I was 7 at the time, Nickelodeon did carry on as normal.
I do remember that the teachers that were teaching the lower grades (kindergarten through 4th grade) were under strict orders not to let us know.
The principal was going around every 15 minutes or so to keep them updated.
@@feronar-warsongus221 I mean, the theme for Mufasa's death would be fitting.
@@stacyk123 in high school (in the Philadelphia suburbs) when it happened. The TVs in the cafeteria were on, our teachers did let let us talk to some extent about it but still told us we had to cover our material in class. Overall, we were treated like adults in that instant: knowing we do understand what’s going on, and being frank about our reality.
As an American I was asleep and my kid woke me who who is half Scottish and said something happen to the Queen I woke up fast and could not believe it. I had to call friends in the UK to confirm it several because at first I thought it was a joke then realized its real and I started crying instantly and havent stopped crying since . I feel like I lost one of my family members. We all loved Queen Elisabeth and she will be greatly miss by us all
Bruh you didn’t go bowling on Wednesday, she’s just some random rich lady.
@@jaxfraud1247 Bruh, get a grip on reality will you.
Poor Andrew Marr. He broke my heart
I'm certain that if it had happened before his illness he would never have cried on air like that. My Dad had the same kind of stroke that Andrew did, not affecting his speech, but he found himself bursting into tears at all sorts of things he never would have beforehand.
Adele’s cover of “Make You Feel my Love” on the hits radio station before the announcement was so somber
I was driving with my family along the A12 listening to Heart when the announcement was made. Its a moment I will never forget. Infinitely sad and driving became very difficult for me for a few minutes. A few people in other cars had pulled over on the side of the road for obvious reasons.
The sameness of the reports comes from the long-planned "London bridge" protocol, established to send out across all networks the same notice and the same script of what to say.
Can you imagine being a young person working their first job at a radio station, and being given the script to break in and make the announcement. Surreal.
I think some people would argue it was unprofessional because many people had suspected such an announcement was coming as the afternoon wore on on the 8th September, but I think many more people would identify with the distress in Andrew Marr’s voice when he made the announcement on LBC. You really wouldn’t think the death of a 96 year old lady who had been unwell for some time would be a shock, but somehow it was. I was watching the news on TV when the announcement came, knowing the Queen was under the medical supervision of her doctors, but when the news of her death broke I was immediately in tears. The Queen has been a constant in the lives of so many of us for so long. She was a familiar face for her Christmas speeches and her appearances on the Buckingham Palace balcony in good times, but she was also a source of reassurance in bad times. One of her finest moments was the speech she made when the UK went into its first covid lockdown in 2020. Her calm authority at such a difficult time would teach the politicians a thing or two.
I first heard the news on ITV & burst into tears.
It was Tradition at the BBC that all studios had a special record case marked 'Music for a Solemn Occasion' - contained therein were LPs of music to be played, in place of normal programmes, on the death of HM or similarly important others.
Around London, Heart was in the middle of playing the OneReupblic top gun song, during the second chorus, they turned the music down and JK said “this is Heart, it’s 6:36, now for a special news report”
And Capital was playing Late Night Talking
The anthem gives me chills and reminds me of the Queen’s younger days
Quality of announcements goes Huw Edwards on BBC 1 and then straight to the lassie on Talk Sport. Perfect delivery of what everyone knew what was coming.
Hearing a consummate professional like Andrew Marr loose it like that is heartbreaking.
Just a reminder that none of us can beat the clock. We’re all just passing through our moment in time. Footprints on a sandy beach until the tide comes in & washes us away. Then all of a sudden, we’re gone.
For context I live in the United States of America, In the state of Mississippi. Last year, while I was entering my history classroom it was announced over the intercom that Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II passed away. We spent the rest of the day learning about her life, and all the things she had done and her impact on the world. For the British reading, I would like to apologize to anyone of my country who has mocked or joked about her passing away.
I'm the biggest Britophile in the USA and this compilation had me in tears... Excellent work!
When the news broke I sat and sobbed for ten minutes. Total shock. Ridiculous due to age but what a loss.
Canadian here. My husband and I were loading up to go camping when the news was reporting that the family was at her side. We had news updates on our way and when we reached our location and backed up to put the camper in place, the news broke. For some reason, it was a shock, we didn’t think it would happen so fast. The memory for us is that the town we’d arrived to camp in was Coronation, Alberta. How fitting of a town to be in when we heard the news.
Speaking of Alberta, I can't help but be reminded that the main highway between Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta Highway 2, is named for Queen Elizabeth II. It got that name in 2005 to commemorate Her Majesty's visit to Edmonton for Alberta's centennial celebration.
Even Her Majesty's mother had a major Canadian highway named for her; the QEW (Queen Elizabeth Way) from Toronto to Niagara Falls is named for The Queen Mother.
Obviously as a Commonwealth country, Canada has many things named after, and commemorating, members of the Royal Family.
Reminds me, I and my family left the house to go the local KFC drive thru, and as we were leaving we were taking that either she had already passed or is about to, got into the car and turned the radio, 0:22 this exact song was playing and not even 30 seconds before we even driven off, 0:41 the announcement came.
All of the Global stations' announcement sounds like a text-to-speech thing
So excellently produced compilation. I can only imagine how it was like at the BBC Radio master control flipping all of their channels off and then going to one broadcast from BBC News.
It was around 130 in the United States, where I was eating my rice and beans in the student lounge to my university. I got the breaking news from my Apple Watch that her Majesty past away and I broke down and couldn't eat my food. Wile Got the news I was talking to my mother.
Rice and beans! I've been a poor college lad. I would have corn on the cob with no butter and a baked potato. It was called "white noise".
Isn't it odd that two of the radio stations were playing Make You Feel My Love by Adele, very fitting for the mood of the moment.
A few minutes before the announcement goes live the stations get instructed to play "appropriate music".
The one from Fun Kids--goosebumps when I heard the first few notes from "This Land" (from the soundtrack of "The Lion King"). I would've broken to tears if the entire piece was allowed to play.
Hurts every time I hear it. Thank you for uploading.
Thanks for the effort much appreciated.
Everyone will remember where and when they where when they heard /seen/ read about the Queens passing
I’m American and I was about to clock into work when I heard the news. I still haven’t been able to process it because I’ve had other things on my mind as well as being busy with work and college.
That "Global Newsroom" guy sounds like a text-to-speech app.
I'm glad that the BBC listened to the criticism following prince Philip's death. They seemed to have a rather normal, yet slightly sombre output. They didn't play any of the awful sad music like they did last year.
Radio 2 were still using the same OBIT playlist as last year. It's reverted to a slightly more standard playlist today, but still some songs missing, and still largely playing softer music.
BBC stations still only playing a few jingles as well, or modified ones.
17:27
- Her Majesty The Queen, Elizabeth II
- Her Majesty, The Queen Elizabeth II
@23:02 We all felt that... :( God Bless HM Elizabeth II
I’d like to see some radio announcements from other countries
Great video, thanks for this! By any chance do you have tv stations announcing the death of the Queen?
this video has some of the television announcements: th-cam.com/video/Ja-gidFHzYo/w-d-xo.html
R. I. P. Queen Elizabeth II (1926 - 2022) 👑🕊
BBC Radio 1: 0:39
BBC Radio 1 Dance: 4:02
BBC Radio 2: 4:41
BBC Radio 3: 7:46
BBC Radio 4: 8:37
BBC Radio 5 Live: 12:47
Greatest Hits Radio: 17:13
Hits Radio: 18:17
Kiss: 19:50
Capital: 21:10
Heart: 22:02
LBC: 22:23
Radio X: 24:01
Talk Radio: 24:26
Talk Sport: 29:11
Times Radio: 30:10
Virgin Radio: 31:22
Fun Kids: 31:52
3:50. It’s a Thursday afternoon. You’re on your way home after work, vibing, when suddenly… 😥
I don’t know what they were playing beforehand but Kerrang Radio just looked at their playlists, thought “yeah, apart from putting I Miss You by Blink 182 and Limp Bizkit’s cover of Behind Blue Eyes on repeat for ages there’s nothing we can play” and put classical music on instead.
For me, that was the bizarrest thing about all the TV and radio changes when the Queen passed I recorded bits of that
Swan`s Lake😅
Quiet classical music cutting to complete silence and then a loud voice announcing breaking news is so unnerving. It feels like they're about to say a nuke has been dropped or the world's about to end, maybe announcing evacuations due to a zombie apocalypse. Weird kind of horror.
By any chance do you have coverage of the Welsh speaking stations of BBC?
23:05 when he broke down as he announced her death….that made me tear up
It's interesting some radio stations let the song finished before announcing the death
Death of HM Queen Elizabeth II - How It Was Announced was written in BBC Reith font.
Perfect font choice there
i love how every news channel just breaks the news and plays the national anthem, whilst talksport get a bloody history lesson with an android-like voice
They announced it at 6:30pm, You could tell at like 2pm, 4 hours before the announcement that she was already gone as, the reporters were already all wearing black whilst reporting she was “comfortable”.
That's not quite right. The first statement about HM being under medical supervision along with the family heading up to Balmoral suggested that she was on the way out. However, the PM wasn't informed of HM's death until 16:30. There's no way that the press would have found out before the PM, nor would they sit on the information for 4.5 hours.
@@ewangregorystvradiocapture9963 they were literally wearing black before mate…
@@JD4-70 Everyone knew the Queen was in her last moments, it was logical they were going to receive that news and they just prepared accordingly.
@@JD4-70 It really didn't take a lot to work out that the Queen's demise was how it was going to end based on the first statement and the fact that all the family was flying up to Balmoral. All I'm saying is that none of the media sat on any sort of confirmation that she had died for 4.5 hours.
@@ewangregorystvradiocapture9963 not confirmation but the dressing in black was the give away 🤦🏼
you can hear someone (possibly the man speaking) shift around at 8:45, and he clearly terminates his sentence far quicker than he planned to. that'll be when the obit light went off alerting the studio of the situation, though the lady speaking likely have received in-ear comms while he was speaking just around the same time the light went off.
edit: oh wow, you can hear the first man quite shaken when the second man directs back to him, though he does regain composure quite quickly.
same thing at around 12:55, her voice wavers and she speeds up a little
obviously many people have commented on andrew marr's reaction, but i want to talk about how the talkradio & talksports hosts also very shaken. i think this demonstrates that these stations had notably less experience with reporting these kinds of events.
@@toranine09 that's an interesting observation. It's strange Claire McDonnell handled it so much better than Vanessa Feltz. Of the two, I would suggest that Vanessa Feltz is a bit more experienced. I know Claire McDonnell and Tony Livesey only had to do a few minutes before they threw to Radio 4 in London, but they sounded like they could have managed.
It's worth noting that reaction at 8:45 was BBC Radio 4. They were the one BBC radio station which all others handed over to for the announcement.
John Humphries can loose It anytime after all has to broadcast the sad news of the death if the Queen so quite understandable
I KNOW this was coming but when it happens it still hits like the proverbial ton of bricks...
I'm surprised, ih Ave such a pro found sense of loss that I have not felt since my own parents passed away. I was born in 1959 she had been onthe throñe for six years when I was born! I f I feel such loss ,oh Charles you are now King I don't know what to say. My con dolence .I can only imagine what mixed feelings you must be feeling now. The day you dreaded has finally come . I hope that God will give you the strength to help you through this process. Kj egan. Toronto
How was it only the BBC that cut off songs and conversations to receive the news...
The BBC has the world's largest newsroom, and can air one breaking news report across all their networks simulcast at once, which is what happened with Radios 1, 2 and 3. Commercial radio has to wait for their song to end, as it is paid for, they are commercial stations after all, and have smaller newsrooms to cope with breaking news events.
My heat go out to the family of the queen it is so sad I feel like she has been everyone friend's she was such a beautiful lady the world will miss her 😭
Does somebody have the full version of Bauer's radios (Kiss, Hits Radio...) version of God Save the Queen/King ? Thank you
My family is a big fan of classical music and we were listening to radio 3 as we usually do whilst eating tea we had just finished eating when the news broke. It was incredibly surreal.
My Grandaunt was born in 1952 and she died in 2016, she lived under the reign of Her Majesty all her life. I could not imagine what she would have felt if she was alive to see the death of Her Majesty the Queen. God Save the King
I feel so bad for the LBC presenter for having to announce that.
Radio 3 got it on point before it was announced.....
What do you mean by that?
@@MrRatrox likely referring to how the host said there "tomorrow [...] there's meant to be a repeat". passive language, but while she was saying that the schedule would still have been the expected one - it wouldnt have changed until the announcement was made
that, or the commenter is referring to the swell of music before the interruption
Any chance that you can find and upload how American all news radio stations like WBZ Boston, WCBS and WINS New York, KYW Philadelphia, WTOP Washington, WWJ Detroit, WBBM Chicago, KCBS San Francisco and KNX Los Angeles broke the news?
I didn’t think I’d cry when I first heard the news. But I did 😢 I never cry. But 😞
Rest In Peace Queen Elizabeth II👸
Listening to this still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, just as it did as the moment I received the news alert. 🇬🇧
I’m British and I found out via ITV news
I work for a small specialist radio station and am very proud how we dealt with it, it was just a surreal is the only way I can explain it, we knew it was coming but just how can we do this right and get the tone right
Is there a TV version of this?
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There are different versions of channels announcing the death of HM, but I don’t think it will be the same as these ones
th-cam.com/video/Ja-gidFHzYo/w-d-xo.html
Here you go
@@courgettecurry Yeah I've seen the individual ones (BBC, ITV, Sky) but was just curious if someone had stitched them together..
Yes, a channel called tevebits did one for the tv channels 🙂
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Sorry to ask, but is there a compilation for UK TV broadcasts of this sad passing here, or will there be one compiled here?
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I have seen one. It covers channels 1-5 and CBBC. I was watching GB News instead and got a further perspective.
@@dcarbs2979 Thank you very much. I saw that just recently, but at the time of her death announcement, I was travelling and heard it from someone that the Queen passed away. At that point, there was some reactions consisting of "oh shit" in a shock-driven manner, and I then shared the news on social media.
I was listening to talkSPORTS one at the time 🥺
17:15 - that timing was perfect. Song just ended, and then the news
in the case of greatest hits, the announcement may have been held back. some of the stations announced the news minutes after the others
As an American, it was shocking to hear that she passed. Very sad. I can't imagine how my own country would have to deal with the death of an President in office. I think the last President who died in office was Lincolin. Either way, it's shocking and emotional. I've watched thousands of mourners in Westminster Abbey visiting HM Queen Elizabeth II. Very somber event. I hope the British find hope in their new King and Queen Consort.
The last US president who died in office was Kennedy.
It was actually JFK who died in office in 1963 after being assassinated.
JFK was the last one to die while in Office.
The last President to die while still in office was John F. Kennedy in 1963.
A few died in office after Lincoln! Garfield, McKinley, Harding, Roosevelt and Kennedy.
Anyone here who knows the person who announced the Queen's death on BBC radio? Must be one of the presenters/newsreaders on R4...
It's Chris Aldridge
BBC Radio Dance: “The queen just died. NO DANCING 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡”
The best one was Fun Kids playing music from The Lion King 😂
Download this video as it’s only a matter of time until the BBC gets to taking it down for copyright.
What happened on talkSPORT afterwards did it join the newsroom I was looking to watch the United game that night before she died and then as soon as I saw it happened I thought I’ve got no chance of picking up any decent radio coverage
Old dear died on my bday, safe to say tears were shed over my Colin caterpillar. Bit harked she stole my thunder but rest up lass
That sad version of God save the queen reminds me of itv closedowns in the 1980s
I listen to greatest hits all the time in the car, interesting to know how it happened on there
Oh Andrew Marr bloody got me hard.😭😭😭😭😭
"Queen elizabeth the second has died."
"Get sky sports"
Imagine that one guy being like "what the fuck is this shit?" And then switches to a UK drill rap station.
The national anthem used in the BBC broadcasts has been artificially slowed down & has resolution problems.
I mean, Fun Kids could of been like the CBBC and done a short documentary on the Queen, but on radio, but nope, they just change the song for no reason, with no context at all. They could of atleast finished Spaceman.