Princess Diana Death (1997)

Apparently she jumped ship in the mid-1990s when Seven proposed to pair her with David Johnston on the Nightly News and she wasn’t happy with the idea.

From what I can recall she was a presenter on Good Medicine (and I think Mark Ferguson and/or Simon Reeve may have also been reporters on that show too).

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Just in case this hasn’t appeared online previously, here is 3AW announcing the death of Princess Di

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Some snapshots of Hong Kong news reports in Diana’s funeral. The original uploader’s Youtube channel was terminated, but the recordings have been reuploaded to China’s counterpart BiliBili beforehand.

ATV: The Cantonese Home channel had a brief news update towards the end of the funeral. Going by that, there’s probably no live coverage of the event. They’re using Sky News’ footage.

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TVB: Pearl’s news bulletin coincided with the funeral’s proceedings. Judging by the preceding video packages, it seems like they’re taking Sky’s footages as well, though compared to the scarcely-resourced ATV, they sent at least two reporters to the scene.

The sequence: Opening in HK studio - UK prerecorded summary of the funeral - live cross to the event plus telephone report voiceover - prerecorded vox pops from grieving Brits.

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Taiwan, with a much more crowded TV news market, was more enthusiastic in showing the funeral. This is a compilation of most of the terrestrial/cable news channels’ broadcasts:

Quite a lot of channel surfing in the video, so here’s a rundown:

  • Formosa TV (commercial TV): Used BBC World footage, as seen in the watermarks. Aired World’s tribute documentary soon after, with their own Chinese graphics (messily) superimposed onto the original open (around 6 minutes in).

  • China TV (then KMT owned-and-operated): A glimpse of Sky News’ footage and the nighttime news set 30 minutes in. Later also used CNN’s coverage for some moments (at 1:11:52), before going to ITN for the main ceremonies (at 2 hour mark).

  • Taiwan TV (then owned-and-operated by Taiwanese government): Sky News footage at 47 minutes in, before opting to prerecorded packages with CNN/GMTV watermarks. CNN/ITN watermarks seen in the background when cutting back to the studio.

  • TVBS-N (satellite news channel from Hong Kong’s TVB): Also Sky News at 52:30 mark. They also sent a correspondent to London. TVBS’ nighttime news was seen at 2 hours 42 mins, presumably in a different feed with the news channel.

  • CTS (then government-run as well): Sky News for the ceremony coverage starting at 2:17:56, with a relatively normal news set than others’ flowers-filled offerings at 2 and a half hours.

The stations eventually ended their broadcasts, and proceeded with various other news headlines.

Exacerbating list over

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