How TV presenters across the world broke Queen's death
dailyrecord.co.ukThis is the moment TV presenters from Scotland to Australia broke the sad news the Queen had died.Normal schedules across the world have been paused to honour Her Majesty, who died at the age of 96 at Balmoral yesterday afternoon.Buckingham Palace made the announcement shortly after 6:30pm on Thursday September, 9.
It was then global news channels broke into special programming, with non-stop rolling coverage, reports The Mirror.Australia had to scramble to break the sombre statement which happened, for them, in the early hours of Friday morning.Both teams of news desks broke the news at 4.30am in Oz, with ABC interrupting the usual music programme Rage to make the announcement.An emotional David Koch informed viewers of the sad news, saying: "Hello, Australia.
You are waking up to the sad news the Queen has died overnight. It's the day we knew was inevitable, but hoped would never come."The channel then showed footage of the huge crowds that were gathering outside of Buckingham Palace as mourners lay flowers outside the gates in the pouring rain.On the Today Show, Peter Stefanovic shared a story of the last time he met the Queen when she visited Australia 11 years ago.Meanwhile over in Paris, the breaking news bulletin was read out: "It's eight o'clock here in Paris.
London is one hour behind."It's a page in the history of the United Kingdom, of the Commonwealth, the world."Queen Elizabeth has died at the age of 96.
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