BBC2 - Queen Mother Announcement - 2002

As I'm getting tired of wasting time controlling arguments from people both in support or against the Monarchy, comments are by approval only. If you're commenting on the video itself, and not the wider subject it'll be let through. Go find a forum for the political debate! :P

Back to the point: To break the sad news of the death of the Queen Mother in Easter 2002 (not 2003 as the clip mentions), the BBC interrupted all of their channels to simulcast with BBC1 both here and abroad, hence the rather vague 'BBC Television News' announcement. For BBC2, this meant leaving the scheduled programme Steptoe and Son, but unfortunately someone told them to cut out a little too early, leaving several minutes of the announcer informing us over a slide 'we *will* be interrupting this programme for an announcement shortly', before Peter Sissons finally appeared (in his later to become infamous 'no black tie' guise).

Clip From: http://www.tvwhirl.co.uk

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[BearyHairy]

I want my four minutes of life back, please. You broke into a programme and piddled about, then when the announcement came on, the vid ended after four seconds. Bad show, really.

[tesandco]

Or you could just look at the related vids. :P I just cut it off there, as the coverage from that point on matches BBC One, which is already well covered on Youtube.

[AsnycnowRadio]

@jaychristie909 well BBC2 had a difficult time cutting to the newsroom

[DarthJedi2005]

Lucky somebody was recording Steptoe and Son, otherwise this historic broadcast would have been lost forever.

[hellboy7769]

PowerMetalKid:

Exactly,they scare the crap outta me :P

[StevieAch]

hah! Asumed it was just me. Rreally thought it was a 'count the tins of beans' moment.

[pahoboye]

wow even in 2002... slowness was normal

[fandabidosiful]

I'd have thought everyone would have given up at this point and just have swiched channel.

[PowerMetalKid]

Is it me, or do news flashes like this just make you as scared as fuck?

[niall249]

steptoe and son :L:L

[Hectorson3]

That was sad to hear that the Queen Mother died.

[ITW84]

when this happened i thought there was something seriously wrong at the BBC like an extremist group had taken over.

The when they finally switched it over to the newsroom and saw the pic of the queen mother i knew what had happened