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William & Kate Royal Wedding |OT| 2000 Guests, 8000 Media, Est.2Billion Watching
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Dreams-Visions
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the same way soccer/football hits 2 billion without Americans watching it. the USA is only about 360 million if you count every man, woman and child. add to that, it will be 4am here (though earlier on the West Coast). I say they get about 20-30 million from the US, tops. the rest will come from:Green Scar said:
...as well as all their neighboring countries. There's lots of people in them thar realms.
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DeathNote said:
True, probably should have been in the OP. The point I was trying to make was that America is MAD for this stuff. When I read that back I thought it was a bit weird tbh, but hey, whatever.
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Angry Fork said:
its nice to have a bit of pomp and circumstance every now then
Gareth Bale
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Monarchy serves no purpose in the modern age. And before you argue with that, you should know that I play Civ so I know about these things.
Also, there's no way 2 billion people will be watching. That's almost a third of the world's population.
Also, there's no way 2 billion people will be watching. That's almost a third of the world's population.
BBC: The BBC is hosting the TV coverage and pooling its coverage for U.S. networks, but stresses that it is not making any profit out of the wedding.DeathNote said:
NBC/ITN/ITV: NBC News has partnered with ITN for its royal wedding coverage. NBC will base 50 staff at the central London production base of ITN, the news arm of ITV which is co-producing NBC's coverage. The U.S. broadcaster will offer 20 hours of combined coverage with MSNBC on the wedding day.
FOX/Sky: Fox News is not paying for its feed because Sky News is already one of the 3 official UK networks covering the event. Fox News is shipping in at least 50 staff from American offices. Shepard Smith and Martha MacCallum will anchor live coverage of the wedding beginning at 1 AM PT.
CNN: CNN already has 75 staff in its London bureau. But Piers Morgan will be the linchpin of the networks coverage, believing that his British accent and London connections will give him the edge over rival presenters.
ABC: Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters will anchor ABC's live coverage of the wedding of beginning at 1 AM PT on April 29, followed by a live West Coast edition of Good Morning America hosted by Robin Roberts live from Westminster Abbey.
CBS: Outgoing CBS Evening News anchor and former Today star Katie Couric will lead live coverage of the event. Couric will also anchor a one-hour primetime special at 8 PM that night, airing against NBC's special hosted by Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira.
Survey says yes you can.
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Sir Fragula said:
Cromwell was an asshole. No-one needs to mimic him, ever. I'd rather be in a country ran by a monarchy than one ran by some weird religious fanatics.
ChiTownBuffalo
Either I made up lies about the Boston Bomber or I fell for someone else's crap. Either way, I have absolutely no credibility and you should never pay any attention to anything I say, no matter what the context. Perm me if I claim to be an insider
In general, only other royalty are invited? No foreign heads of state have been invited.
Mr. Bean is going though.
Mr. Bean is going though.
jamieson87
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Who is doing the disco/band for the reception?
There was a rumour that Pete Tong is DJing the afterparty at Buckingham Palace.jamieson87 said:Who is doing the disco/band for the reception?
Googled us tv coverage :| All the stuff in the op comes from either the BBC or the Daily Mail hah.DeathNote said:
It's going to be reaired and replayed across several different networks several times throughout the day here in the States, including primetime specials on virtually all major networks.Dreams-Visions said:the same way soccer/football hits 2 billion without Americans watching it. the USA is only about 360 million if you count every man, woman and child. add to that, it will be 4am here (though earlier on the West Coast). I say they get about 20-30 million from the US, tops. the rest will come from:
...as well as all their neighboring countries. There's lots of people in them thar realms.
It will be seen by a massive number of Americans. Maybe not completely live, but same day at least.
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Canova said:
You should be asking why the rest of the world cares
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CHEEZMO said:
Exactly. Too bad his faith was the one that believes only in eat, sleep and church
Dreams-Visions
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oh well in that case, sure. the networks will make sure of that, as they believe this will be a cash cow for them.MetatronM said:
(that's the real reason it's airing so much in America. paydays for networks)
PowderedToast
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i feel like a lot of it is to do with the massive push the british media is giving it, which makes the average joe think it's important to them. ask anyone who's got a ounce of independent thought and they don't give a shit.Canova said:
Barberetti
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Yeah I'm with Harrison Ford on this one. Luckily I've managed to keep myself almost completely royal wedding free so far, and will be continuing to do so up to and including the day itself. On Friday, I'll probably be round a friends house having a few beers and playing Saints Row 2. Thankfully the citizens of Stillwater don't give a shit about the royals.
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CHEEZMO said:
He was a Puritan!
...right? I haven't done history in forever. I was always taught he was a bit of a religious nutjob. He banned Christmas.
Harry_Tequila
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I'm ashamed to say that my neighbours are having a street party for this madness.
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CHEEZMO said:
Oh, haha, righto, I was getting confused for a moment there. Glad to see we're on the right footing.
anonnumber6
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How much attention is this getting in the commonwealth countries(outside the UK) and does anyone care about it?
jamieson87
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iNvidious01 said:
What else could pull such a global audience? The only things that could come close are global sporting events. And even then it's only the World Cup final, Champions League Final and Olympics.
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Tenks said:
Same, but after watching all those news stories about look-a-likes, she's actually got quite ordinary features.
It's probably the accent.
woodsey1982
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Loving the story about Buckingham Palace turning all the lights out at 1am on the morning of the wedding just as prime time US TV networks go on air live from outside the Palace. They could be standing anywhere for all the viewers will know!
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