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Old November 10th 14, 09:32 AM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
N_Cook
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Default Comet lander (delayed) TV coverage in UK?

On 09/11/2014 21:46, John wrote:
On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:02:15 -0600, Mike wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 17:16:56 +0000, N_Cook wrote:

Other than delayed S@N,Sun 16 Nov 2014 21:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29746430 no specific
mention there would even be any ESA coverage on BBCNews channel, half
hour after 08:35 GMT ,12 Nov 2014.


Radio Times shows "Frontiers: the Rosetta mission" 21:00 Radio 4 Wednesday
12 November 2014.


Ooohh, goody. Will they be showing live, light-speed delayed pictures
on that radio show?
J.

P.S. no, I don't watch the radio channels very often. Why do you ask?




P.P.S. ESA/NASA could show the mission control centre as the
landed-safe/bounced-and-broke-Rosetta confirmations come in on all
national European and public service USAlien channels just to make the
geeks happier. They won't. And the national broadcasters wouldn't take
the feeds live anyway. Not even the "news" channels. Science ain't
news. *Sport* is Real News. Politics is Really Real News. Science is a
filler if there's no gossip to pad the last thirty seconds of a
programme.
Media types truly have no idea.
J.



Mike.


I suppose the media were discomfitted by the CERN/LHC public
commissioning, no bang or anything interesting just a dot on the screen,
how photogenic/newsworthy was that?
Now if ESA could arrange for a clanger to come up to a camera lens on
the comet lander probe and take a selfie, they'd be all over the story