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coronation peaked at 20 million. split between itv, sky news, bbc one, bbc two and bbc news. god save the king! len clarkson was among those who commended the bbc on a weekend of significant broadcasting challenges. but other viewers were less happy. in a moment, we ll hear from amy wynne morris, who found a lack of impartiality in the coverage. first, here sjoe collins, focusing on the decision to broadcast for seven and a half hours on saturday, the same output on the news channel as was already being shown on bbc one and bbc two. when i get up in the morning, i like to turn on my tv or my radio to get the news. but on saturday, the only way i could get news on my tv was to turn on one of the foreign broadcasters. now, the reason that people turn to news channels is because they want to discover something new about what happened in the world. and while i have no problem with how the coronation was covered on bbc one and two, we knew exactly what was going to happen in ....
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And i didn t care whether it was on bbc one or bbc two or if it was on bbc one and the news channel. but leave me a channel with something else to watch, please. very well expressed, joanne beaver. thank you. and richard burgess as well. finally, regular viewers will know the complaint, that s not news, which often comes about a story on the bbc. and we have another entry in that category this week with this article, which appeared online on friday headlined. not everyone was convinced that the purchase by the former oasis singer in a fish and chip shop in derbyshire merited a place on the corporation s news website. grace west was one of a number who asked, for those less familiar with oasis lyrics, pete trainor wondered but phil davis apparently ....
I think ultimately that was the major news story of the day. that s the right thing for the news channel to be covering. but, you know, there was no choice. where was the choice to find out what else was happening in the world? i think we have to recognise that this is an event that happens very seldomly. the last one was 70 years ago. i think part of the bbc s remit is to bring the nation together around big events. we re proud about doing that, and that s what we did with the coronation, and we saw that people came to us in massive numbers, you know, 25 million across television, many millions online plus on radio. and as i said, big, big numbers for the news channel as well. joanne, you do accept it was a major news event. can you see the case for warranting it being on all these channels? if i can say yes but no, how many channels can one person watch? if i hadn t been a staunch royalist, if i had been wavering, ....