Television introduced Queen Elizabeth II to the world. It was only fitting that television should see her out of it. The queen’s seven-decade reign almost exactly spanned the modern TV era. Her coronation in 1953 began the age of global video spectacles. Her funeral on Monday was a full-color pageant accessible to billions. (NYT)
When word came that Queen Elizabeth II was close to her death, media organizations around the world sprang to life, dispatching reporters to a royal castle in Scotland and breaking out coverage plans decades in the making. (Fortune/AP)
As the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II got underway, viewers took to social media urging U.S. anchors to cut down on excessive commentary. (Variety)
CBS News insiders slammed the struggling network over its tone-deaf decision to cut short coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, in order to air episodes of Let’s Make a Deal and The Price Is Right. (NY Post)
Paramount’s Channel 5 was the sole major British TV service bypassing the otherwise wall-to-wall coverage of the Queen’s funeral proceedings. The alternative programming? The Emoji Movie, Stuart Little and Ice Age 3. (Deadline)