Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the U.S. networks shared the BBC feed, the competition between them was as keen as always-and no wonder, with 55 million American viewers planning to get up early to watch the royal nuptials. The networks fielded their top commentators, as well as more than 300 correspondents, producers and technicians, at a reported cost of $5 million...
...that they were "grateful for all those kind wishes." NBC Anchorman John Chancellor observed that "correspondents tend to tiptoe through interviews with royalty in this country. That's at the Palace's request." The U.S. networks tried to make up for their lack of access to the royal couple by hiring commentators such as Actors Robert Morley (ABC) and Peter Ustinov (NBC), Interviewer David Frost and Historian Lady Antonia Fraser (CBS). They did not always help. Morley joked cloyingly about his "missing invitation to St. Paul's." When Chancellor asked Ustinov why the British people love...
...force, running hard to match the stunning visual story provided by television. Nearly 1,000 foreign journalists operated out of the Overseas Press Center on St. James's Street, which was equipped with 50 typewriters, 126 telephone lines and eleven Telex machines. The London Sun, calling itself the Royal Sun for the big week, stationed 40 reporters with walkie-talkies along the processional route. Die Aktuelle, the West German women's magazine, ferried its reporters and photographers around in two planes, two helicopters, two speedboats (for the Thames) and a fleet of cars and bicycles...
...wedding captured front-page headlines around the world. It even moved the gray Times of London to do the unthinkable: the paper published a color photograph of the royal couple as a souvenir front page on Thursday. The Economist had a color news page for the first time in its 138-year history. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun (circ. 8 million), the largest newspaper in the world, deemed the wedding story important enough to rush in a color photo midway through its evening press run. But by week's end such energy had begun to dissipate. Most reporters were...
...took the splendor and pageantry of the royal wedding to match, and at last to overcome, the kind of coverage Britain was getting last week on American television. The anchorman heavies (Rather, Chancellor, Walters, Brokaw) arrived early to cover the preparations, but soon wearied of the familiar banalities -curbside interviews with the first people to stake out viewing spots, guardsmen shining their boots, the trafficking in gimcrack souvenirs. They had come to cover a spectacle but got themselves diverted by the earthier scent of real news. It was point and counterpoint all week...