No two min silance on ITV
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I think its bad that they still showed murder she wrote during the two min silence. They could have went to an ad break and had a two min silence then.
BBC 1,BBC 2, Channel 4 and Channel 5 plus all the radio stations had the two min silence.
ITV should have had the two min silence as well.
Darren
BBC 1,BBC 2, Channel 4 and Channel 5 plus all the radio stations had the two min silence.
ITV should have had the two min silence as well.
Darren
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Totally agree i was surprised, yes it is not the 11th but remembrance Sunday is shown the same respect.
Well not by ITV anyway, very bad showing in a day and age when everybody is trying to put respect back into the country and especially this year of all years.
I think you'll find the word "everybody" is somewhat of an over-estimate.
Possibly it doesn't need competition as David Dimbley does a good job.
So you spent the two minutes of remembrance channel surfing to find out who wasn't adhering to your demand for compliance? Will you be doing the same on Tuesday?
At one time they would also cover a Remembrance Ceremony from somewhere, I think STV usually did one in Scotland.
Yeah, I was expecting to see the Cenotaph ceremony on Sky News this morning only to find Dermot Murnaghan's show on air as normal instead.
It wouldn't be that only the BBC has the rights to screen it these days, would it?
Now I am no Sky supporter, far from it, but that's respect. As a major PSB, ITV's actions if as reported in this thread (I didn't see it) were disrespectful, no ifs, no buts.
I will be a work on Tuesday from about 11am. I never had the sound on the TV. I had the radio on for the two min silence. I just think that every main TV channel should have the two minutes silance on remembrance Sunday.
Darren
I will observe it on Tuesday at work, I think it is more significant stopping on a busy weekday morning than on a Sunday when most people are in the house.
It isn't a commemoration of Christianity or any other religion, it's a commemoration of the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
And the 'proper day' has for nearly 20 years been accepted as both the Sunday and the 11th, if different.
Thank you I'm well aware of that and as I said I will be paying my respects on Tuesday along with most other countries. Britain as far as I'm aware is the only country that officially marks it on a Sunday in it's obsession with being a 'Christian country' which I refuse to be taken in by.
If people want to do the 2 min silence, then there is a mute button or off button. simply fixed,
It's called choice, one of the things the soldiers lost their lives to uphold.
What has being Christian got to do with it? It's about remembrance and respect for fallen soldiers!
SKY News covered it from about 10.45 until 11.55 - i watched their coverage as the picture seemed sharper than the BBC One HD version
You clearly aren't "well aware of that", as you've just repeated it.
The Sunday remembrance is, IIRC, because fewer people are at work on that day and more, therefore, will be free to observe it. The change to Sunday was made in 1947 by the Commonwealth so "that full opportunity would be afforded persons who wished to lay wreaths at cenotaphs or war memorials. Where it was customary, memorial church services would be held and churches were invited to arrange services to enable, where practicable, the observance of the period of two minutes' silence between 11 a.m. and 12 a.m."
The church thing was not the reason for it, it was just an invitation to participate that the change made possible for them. The 11th was added back in 1995.
It is not as if they did not have any notice. They could easily have planned their schedule so there would be a programme junction at 11:00h. Everyone else seems to manage it.
Very disrespectful. I wonder if the Daily Mail will criticise them, ooops no, it's not the BBC so probably not.
And all the ATC, Sea Cadets, Army Cadet Corps who would have get off school.
I noticed that the local war memorial had a Guard of Honour on Saturday. When I went past it was ATC but all three could have been involved at different times.