All concerts were professionally filmed by Nocturne Productions Inc., which filmed all of Jackson's tours and private affairs. During the 1992 European leg of the tour, MTV was given permission to film backstage reports, interview the cast and film live performance. The mini-show was hosted by Sonya Saul and had six, 15-minute mini-episodes of concerts in Munich, Werchter, Dublin, Hamburg, Cardiff, London, Leeds, Berlin, Oviedo and Madrid. Performances include "Billie Jean", "Black or White", "Jam", "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", and "Will You Be There". The concert in Bucharest on October 1, 1992, was filmed and broadcast on television all across the world, giving HBO the highest rating garnered in cable TV History, with an unedited version airing on the BBC.
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Dangerous World Tour
Dangerous World Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
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when was "human nature" released?
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July 3, 1983
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where did its live performances take place?
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Jacksons' Victory Tour, Bad World Tour and Dangerous World Tour.
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when did the last tour start?
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June 27, 1992
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HBO and BBC
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The concert film titled "" was officially released on DVD on July 25, 2005.
Dangerous World Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
All concerts were professionally filmed by Nocturne Productions Inc., which filmed all of Jackson's tours and private affairs. During the 1992 European leg of the tour, MTV was given permission to film backstage reports, interview the cast and film live performance. The mini-show was hosted by Sonya Saul and had six, 15-minute mini-episodes of concerts in Munich, Werchter, Dublin, Hamburg, Cardiff, London, Leeds, Berlin, Oviedo and Madrid. Performances include "Billie Jean", "Black or White", "Jam", "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", and "Will You Be There". The concert in Bucharest on October 1, 1992, was filmed and broadcast on television all across the world, giving HBO the highest rating garnered in cable TV History, with an unedited version airing on the BBC.
Dangerous World Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
Both versions have placed a snippet of Jackson's original a cappella recording for "Billie Jean" over the live vocals when Jackson throws his fedora. The October 1, 1992, concert in Bucharest, Romania was filmed for broadcast on the HBO network on October 10. Jackson sold the film rights for the concert for $20 million, then the highest amount for a concert performer to appear on television. The special earned Jackson the second of two CableACE Awards of his career, this one for Outstanding Performance Musical Special.
Dangerous World Tour | The show
TV Ratings: 3.7 million households/21.4 rating/34 share. The concert special set a record for HBO at the time, becoming the channel’s highest rated special. The DVD has sold over three million copies worldwide.
Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour | Reception
The orchestra disbanded after the "Late Show" ended on May 20, 2015. Jazz musician Jonathan Batiste was announced by new host Stephen Colbert as the new "Late Show"s bandleader on June 4, 2015, with his band, Stay Human, becoming the show's new house band. The World's Most Dangerous Band reassembled in 2016 in order to record a self-titled album, released on March 17, 2017, followed by a tour. The group performed as the house band for the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony in 2018.
Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band | After Letterman
U2 stopped the broadcasts in August 1993 after learning that the siege of Sarajevo was being reported on the front of many British newspapers. Though this trend had begun before the first link-up, Nathan Jackson suggested that U2's actions had brought awareness of the situation to their fans, and to the British public indirectly. Reactions to the transmissions were mixed, triggering a media debate concerning the ethical implications of mixing rock entertainment with human tragedy. The Edge said: "A lot of nights it felt like quite an abrupt interruption that was probably not particularly welcomed by a lot of people in the audience.
Zoo TV Tour | Sarajevo satellite transmissions
He was also a bit unenthusiastic. It was as if he just wanted to get through the show at times. The microphone was often no where near his mouth while the backing tracks were playing."
Purpose World Tour | Critical reception
The band was initially unnamed, although it was occasionally jokingly referred to as "The NBC Orchestra", after "The Tonight Show" Band, and later, "The World's Most Dangerous Band" after professional wrestler Dick the Bruiser. Still, these names were not official, and the 1985 video "You Kill Me" (aired on the "David Letterman Holiday Film Festival" special) is credited on-screen simply to "Paul Shaffer and the Band". By 1987, the "NBC Orchestra" name was being used in the opening announcements, before "The World's Most Dangerous Band" became the official name circa 1988. The group was forced to rename itself when Letterman left NBC, and NBC claimed that the name "The World's Most Dangerous Band" was its intellectual property.
Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band | Band name
The CBS Orchestra has also backed up a host of artists in other venues, such as Stevie Wonder, Faith Hill, Little Richard, and also B. B. King at the closing ceremonies of the summer 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. They also backed Al Green, Gloria Estefan, 'N Sync, and Eric Clapton for VH1's Save the Music concert at the White House. The World's Most Dangerous Band is also the house band for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Additionally, they were the backup band for The Concert for New York City where they performed with David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy, Macy Gray, and James Taylor.
Anton Fig | David Letterman
When the band reassembled after the end of "Late Show" in 2016, it was able to reclaim its former name, "The World's Most Dangerous Band", as NBC had not used the name for several years and thus had abandoned any trademark claim over it.
Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band | Band name
Unfortunately, in the rush to set up the transatlantic feeds, the sound feed from Philadelphia was sent to London via transatlantic cable, while the video feed was via satellite, which meant a lack of synchronisation on British television receivers. Due to the constant activities in both London and Philadelphia, the BBC producers omitted the reunion of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young from their broadcast. The BBC, however, did supply a 'clean feed' to various television channels in Europe. ABC was largely responsible for the US broadcast (although ABC themselves only telecast the final three hours of the concert from Philadelphia, hosted by Dick Clark, with the rest shown in syndication through Orbis Communications, acting on behalf of ABC).
Live Aid | Broadcasts
Holley returned to work with Jackson for the Dangerous World Tour (June 1992–November 1993), a 69 date concert series which was attended by almost 3.5 million fans. The tour was cut short after child sexual abuse allegations were leveled against Jackson. He canceled the remainder of the tour due to the stress caused by the accusations. In 1994, he joined with Kate Markowitz, Valerie Carter, and David Lasley to form what "The Pantagraph" and "The Boston Globe" respectively described as a "wonderful" and "angelic" backing group to James Taylor. While on tour with Taylor, he was praised for his vocal ability by several news sources.
Dorian Holley | Dangerous Tour and HIStory Tour
David "Shirt" Nicholls was the audio mixer, using a Digidesign Venue with both the Eventide Anthology Pack, which provided sound effects, and Venue Pro Pack, which was a complete digital mixing console. Nicholls has expressed his admiration for the Venue Pro Pack and also explained that the A-T 4050 microphones which he used on the tour took a battering during shows. Nicholls has called the T6100 vocal microphones he used "bulletproof" as they would occasionally "go flying up into the seats" during shows but would still work the next show. The Meyer P.A., which accumulates 16 MILO seat boxes, nine Nexo CD-18 subwoofers, and six flown HP700s on the ground per side, was provided by Thunder Audio.
All Hope Is Gone World Tour | Sound production
His sister Janet Jackson said: "That opening was kick-ass. I'm sitting in the sound tower and all the kids are everywhere. And when he jumped out of whatever the hell that thing was [...] the kids in front of me were looking back and I didn't even know it". Most of the 1992 shows included a stage trick during the transition from "Thriller" to "Billie Jean", whereby Jackson walks into two pillars and is secretly switched with a werewolf-masked backup dancer while he changes outfits for "Billie Jean". The masked "Jackson" is placed into a coffin which disappears when dancers posing as the skeletons and zombies drape a cloth over the coffin and pull it out.
Dangerous World Tour | Preparation
Assistant engineered by Mike Thompson at The Hit Factory recording studios. Shaffer's band was billed as "The Party Boys of Rock 'n' Roll" because NBC held a trademark on the phrase "World's Most Dangerous Band." (CBS, where the band would arrive later that year, would also hold the trademark on the name the band would use next, the "CBS Orchestra.")
The World's Most Dangerous Party | Introduction
Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band is an American musical ensemble led by Paul Shaffer. It is best known for being David Letterman's house band for 33 years. The band formed in 1982 to serve as house band for NBC's "Late Night with David Letterman". When Letterman moved to CBS and began hosting the "Late Show with David Letterman" in 1993, the band added a horn section and second guitarist, renaming itself (due to an intellectual property dispute with NBC) the CBS Orchestra, a name that lasted until Letterman left the "Late Show" in 2015. After a two-year hiatus, in 2017, the band was revived by Shaffer using its original name and released an album titled "Paul Shaffer & The World's Most Dangerous Band", followed by a tour.
Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band | Introduction
Initially, a post-attack statement was to be broadcast confirming a nuclear strike had hit the United Kingdom and warning of the dangers of fallout. It would have been broadcast every two hours on all radio frequencies set aside for the BBC for the first twelve hours after the attack. The script was released by the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act on 3 October 2008. It was recorded by Peter Donaldson, chief continuity announcer for BBC Radio 4 Jim Black, a BBC executive, compiled a schedule consisting of classic BBC drama, comedy and religious programmes to maintain morale. These included "Round The Horne", "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue", "Hancock's Half Hour" and the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music".
Wartime Broadcasting Service | Programmes for broadcast
The programme questioned the authority of British troops who had shot dead suspected IRA members allegedly planning a terrorist attack on a British military ceremony in Gibraltar. The documentary was regarded almost as treason by many Conservative politicians, and "The Sunday Times" made claims about one of the witnesses interviewed which were later found to be libellous. The following year, in 1989, Thames ended the contract of Benny Hill, a stalwart at the station since 1969. It was believed that the comedian was dismissed because his shows were considered offensive, but Thames said the decision was taken because of falling ratings.
Thames Television | Programming controversies
In 2007 BBC 6 Music was in the press because of scandals over rigged competitions. It emerged that in 2006 the Liz Kershaw Show faked a competition by using producers and their friends as 'competition winners', leading to the firing of a junior producer. On 20 September 2007, it was announced that the Head of Programmes, Ric Blaxill, had resigned. In May 2008 George Lamb was reprimanded for using his programme to back Conservative candidate Boris Johnson for London mayor.
BBC Radio 6 Music | Press coverage
The last concert in Nice, France, was recorded and broadcast on HBO as "Live! Madonna: Blond Ambition World Tour 90". The rights to the special were bought by HBO for US$ 1 million, and was advertised as "America's No.1 female pop star in a live-by-satellite performance of one of the summer's biggest pop music events". According to the "Chicago Tribune", it was not a pay-per-view special as the channel wanted to distinguish itself from its pay-TV rival, Showtime. The transmission gave HBO a record for the highest ratings ever for an original program at the time; around 4.5 million people tuned in.
Blond Ambition World Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
You were grabbed out of a rock concert and given a really strong dose of reality and it was quite hard sometimes to get back to something as frivolous as a show having watched five or ten minutes of real human suffering." Mullen worried that the band were exploiting the Bosnians' suffering for entertainment. In 2002, he said: "I can't remember anything more excruciating than those Sarajevo link-ups. It was like throwing a bucket of cold water over everybody. You could see your audience going, 'What the fuck are these guys doing?' But I'm proud to have been a part of a group who were trying to do something." During a transmission to the band's concert at Wembley Stadium, three women in Sarajevo told Bono via satellite: "We know you're not going to do anything for us.
Zoo TV Tour | Sarajevo satellite transmissions
The other official releases by Michael Jackson is a VHS of his HIStory World Tour concert in Seoul, South Korea, and it was released only in South Korea in 1996, and "Live at Wembley July 16, 1988", which is the second leg of his Bad World Tour. There are various versions of the footage of the same concert that exist. The first version was broadcast the next day by BBC; following Jackson's death, this version was rebroadcast on BNN/Ned3. All the footage in this version is from the Bucharest concert. The version that appears on the DVD was broadcast on HBO in 1992, which became the highest audience in the channel's history for a single broadcast .
Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour | Introduction
The editor was Gareth Maynard.
Let's Get to It Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
All manner of people are trundling up and down – buses, bikes and little three wheeled tuk-tuks – it's rather fun." In 2004, the Zimbabwe government banned media from following the England cricket team tour of the country. Agnew's reaction was combative, appearing on BBC Breakfast and giving his opinion that the ban presented the ECB with a chance to withdraw from the controversial tour and that they should take the opportunity.
Jonathan Agnew | Notable broadcasting incidents
The concert opened with 'The best'. Turner wore a different outfit to the rest of the shows of the tour for this concert. Although the real professional, multi-camera recording is not in circulation, there is a fan-shot, full-length video of the concert on YouTube.
Foreign Affair: The Farewell Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
The tour also featured very early performances and interviews by artists such as Rizzle Kicks and Ed Sheeran. Blast worked with a number of partners to put on events and give content a chance to be promoted at a higher level. These partners included the Victoria and Albert Museum, RSC, National Portrait Gallery, National Theatre, Zoo Nation, and the British Film Institute. On 24 January 2011, the BBC announced the closure of BBC Blast as part of a 25% cut to the BBC Online budget, resulting in a £34 million shortfall.
BBC Online | BBC Blast
The show was dropped after the conservative academic Paul Wilkinson – a professor at Aberdeen University who specialised in the study of terrorism and political violence – voiced strong objections to its transmission.
1988–94 British broadcasting voice restrictions | Background
The original set list for the 1992 leg featured "The Way You Make Me Feel" and "Bad", but these were taken out after the eighth concert in Oslo, Norway. However, these two songs were returned for the performances in Tokyo, Japan. During the Europe leg in 1992, MTV was allowed to film backstage and broadcast six fifteen-minute episodes of the tour. The show was called "The Dangerous Diaries" and was presented by Sonya Saul. MTV released footage of "Billie Jean" and "Black Or White" at the first show in Munich. "Billie Jean" was released with 2 different versions, one by MTV as a special, and the other on the "Dangerous Diaries" documentary.
Dangerous World Tour | The show
This version, while mostly having footage of Jackson performing at the Bucharest Concert (some in alternate camera angles in comparison to the BBC version), also consisted of footage from concerts in other locations such as Madrid and London. Also missing were the "Brace Yourself" video introduction and the "We Are the World Interlude," which were included in the original BBC Telecast. The crowd screaming and intro before "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" is featured in Jackson's 2010 song "Behind the Mask".
Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour | Introduction
BBC World Service, the last of the BBC websites to use RealAudio, discontinued its use in March 2011.
RealAudio | Introduction
As reported, the live broadcast was in danger of going over-time. Despite signaling from the broadcast crew, conductor Bernard Herrmann didn't see any of the signalling but finished the work on time. "It was a beautiful little work of Marc's," wrote Norman Lloyd. "In the booth at CBS while we did it sat Orson Welles, John Houseman and Kurt Weill. There were always exciting people around — people who became legends, but in those days we were all just working."
I've Got the Tune | Broadcast
Two outfits were 9 feet tall, 7 feet wide, and weighed 40 lbs each, with fibre optic lights controlled by a computerised laser. One jacket was fitted with a battery belt generating 3,000 volts to light the 36 strobe lights on it. Another had hidden flaps to conceal explosive effects. 1,000 yards of fabric from Europe was used to make the costumes, including a black and gold outfit for Jackson which included 18-karat gold. The costumes alone cost $2 million. The show incorporated various stage illusions. Among them was the "toaster" effect where Jackson entered the stage on a rapidly rising catapult from underneath, sending off pyrotechnics at the same time.
Dangerous World Tour | Preparation
In an innovation, the BBC placed an audio microphone on one of the jockeys, opting for Graham Thorner, who was partnering Prince Rock, with a view that the rider could give viewers a verbal experience of the National. The audio, however, proved unusable as Thorner, forgetting he was wired for sound, recorded three minutes of expletive-riddled content before a final tirade of expletives signaled his twelfth-fence exit. The BBC had narrowly missed out on media history as Thorner had been a last-minute replacement for the jockey who had initially agreed to be wired up, Tommy Stack. Stack, however, changed his mind in the weighing room when he saw the equipment he was to carry.
1977 Grand National | Media coverage and aftermath
In 1994 Tony Hall, the head of the BBC's News and Current Affairs, argued that the restrictions did not allow viewers to make a proper judgment about those subject to the rules, as the subtle changes to their voices could not be heard. In particular he cited the example of the appearance of Gerry Adams on the BBC's "On the Record" in September 1993, in which he spoke about the prospect of peace in Northern Ireland. Hall said Adams was nervous and defensive throughout the interview as the presenter, Sheena McDonald, argued that peace could not be achieved while the IRA continued its violent stance, but that viewers were unaware of these aspects of the discussion.
1988–94 British broadcasting voice restrictions | Analysis
The system was controlled by Meyer Sound Galileo. The side-hang featured 10 MICA boxes per side, with four UPJs for front-fills. Ron Hurd, the tour's monitor engineer, mixed the show using a Yamaha PM5D console. Hurd said, "I'm not using any plug-ins or rack gear except for an [Apogee] Big Ben word clock. Six of the nine guys are on ears: Ultimate Ears with Sennheiser G2s."
All Hope Is Gone World Tour | Sound production
In 1982, Lee became one of the original members of "The World's Most Dangerous Band", the house band on "NBC"s "Late Night with David Letterman". He holds the distinction of playing with Paul Shaffer, on both "Late Night" and the "Late Show", longer than any other member of the CBS Orchestra. Before the "Late Show" begins taping, he often tosses out guitar picks to the audience as souvenirs. On the May 13, 2015 episode of the "Late Show with David Letterman", as Letterman was interviewing Paul Shaffer, Shaffer gave recognition to the members of his band, and lastly mentioned Lee as the "man has been with us on bass since the first night we were on Late Night, Will Lee."
Will Lee (bassist) | The CBS Orchestra
The tour attracted more than 4.5 million fans from 58 cities in 35 countries around the world and concluded in Durban, South Africa in October 1997.
Dorian Holley | Dangerous Tour and HIStory Tour
"Diversion" was to be in the form of music and selected pre-recorded programmes. BBC executives drafted a schedule made up of music, drama, comedy, and religious programmes to be broadcast over a period of 100 days after a nuclear attack on the United Kingdom. The BBC had studios and production equipment at many government nuclear bunkers such as the Central Government War Headquarters at Corsham and the Regional Seats of Government. By the end of the decade, existing transmitters had been fitted with emergency diesel generators and fallout protection.
Wartime Broadcasting Service | Origins and history
Without those we'd be fucked." Bono later said: "When we built Zoo TV, we were so close to bankruptcy that if 5% fewer people went, U2 was bankrupt. Even in our irresponsible, youthful and fatal disregard of such material matters, it was terrifying."
Zoo TV Tour | Commercial performance
The look of both channels was made up of red and cream and designed by Lambie-Nairn, with music based on a style described as 'drums and beeps' composed by David Lowe, a departure from the general orchestral nature of music used by other news programmes.
BBC World News | History
That vulgarity was personified by its first presenter, William Hardcastle, who was a former editor of the "Daily Mail" and had also been Washington Correspondent for Reuters. The Radio Academy Hall of Fame says he "had a businesslike, but warm broadcasting voice, and a style that emphasised fact rather than comment, bringing some Fleet Street urgency to the radio presentation of news". Hardcastle did not want to do the programme every day so Andrew Boyle suggested he share the job with William Davis another presenter whose career did not wholly depend on the BBC.
The World at One | History
In response to Boteach's poster, one hundred actors, writers, directors, and musicians including Roger Waters, John Cusack, Angela Davis, Mark Ruffalo, and Viggo Mortensen published a joint letter in "The Guardian" defending Lorde's stand. On 31 January 2018, three Israeli teenagers sued the activists who wrote the open letter for "emotional damage" resulting from the concert's cancellation.
Melodrama World Tour | Israel controversy
In July 2007, following a complaint from Buckingham Palace about the misrepresentation of the Queen in a BBC documentary, Mark Thompson, then-BBC Director General, in a public purging exercise, singled out Kershaw's show in what became an infamous BBC scandal, announcing that some of the DJ's shows that were aired as live were in fact pre-recorded and that members of the production team had passed themselves off as listeners texting and emailing into competitions.
Liz Kershaw | Recent career
Around this time, the group released an album credited to "Paul Shaffer and the Party Boys of Rock 'n' Roll". The name "Paul Shaffer and The CBS Orchestra" dated from the start of the show on CBS in 1993. The band was not featured on CBS programming outside of the "Late Show". According to the "Late Show with David Letterman" credits, the name "CBS Orchestra" is the property of CBS; CBS had not had an orchestra since "The Ed Sullivan Show" (whose house band absorbed most of the Alfredo Antonini-led CBS Orchestra that had served as the CBS Radio Network's primary band during its existence) ended its run in 1971.
Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band | Band name
Original US airdates Sundays, Fox, 7:30pm July 11–August 22, 1993 Original UK airdates Fridays, BBC2, Approx. 11.30pm (exact airtimes varied with region) 13 May - 24 June 1994 Credits Series Produced by: Kevin G. Cremin ..."Producer" Robert Wolterstorff..."Executive Producer"
Danger Theatre | Airing history and other details
After the station was set up and running the question came to Tommy as what he should broadcast on the station. He had struggled with this question since the station didn't have a phonograph of their own to play music and the direction of the station and what it broadcast was left to him. It turns out that the station had turned its attention to sports casting by a lucky phone call. The call came from Sandy Hunt who was a sportswriter for the Newark Sunday Call and suggested that the station broadcast the 1921 World Series. After talking it over with the rest of the stations staff they all were warmed and ready to accept the challenge.
Thomas Cowan (broadcaster) | The World Series broadcast for the first time to the masses
"L’Osservatore Romano" felt the Barcelona broadcast was a violation of "good sense, good taste and decency". In England, BBC Radio 1 broadcast the full show from Wembley Stadium, which led to controversy over the profanity Madonna used live on air. The documentary film which chronicled the tour, "" (known as "In Bed with Madonna" outside of North America), was directed by Alek Keshishian and released in theaters on May 10, 1991, grossing over US$15 million. The singer approached Keshishian about doing an HBO special on her and the tour; the director, who found the backstage scene to be "a Fellini-esque dysfunctional family", persuaded the singer to do an actual film focused on that, with interspersed footage of some performances.
Blond Ambition World Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
The programme is recorded in front of a studio audience on the Thursday evening before the Friday broadcast. On Friday 22 July 2005, "The Now Show" was broadcast without a studio audience due to the attempted 21 July 2005 London Bombings. The show's then regular venue, The Drill Hall was close to the site of one of the failed bomb attacks and had been cordoned off by police; as such the show had to be recorded in the Radio 4 studios at Broadcasting House. Hugh Dennis opened the show with the words "with us are Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes, Marcus Brigstocke and Mitch Benn...
The Now Show | Broadcast and podcast
Great Lakes member Ben Crum recalled: "It was definitely dangerous. There often seemed to be a very real chance that someone, probably Julian, would get hurt. Jeff was always doing things like picking him up and throwing him into the drums." This caused some audience members to become scared of the band members. Ironically, the band members would often ask some audience members if they could spend the night at their house without knowing the homeowner was in fact terrified of them. The audio technicians for most venues were confused and did not know what to expect. As a result, Laura Carter took on the unusual role of "mix-board translator".
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | Release and tour
NBC faced a barrage of criticism following its broadcast of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. British news media lambasted NBC's decision to cut a tribute to the victims of the July 7, 2005 London bombings. NBC spokesman Greg Hughes said: The commentary – particularly that of Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer – was also criticized as "ignorant" and "banal". They admitted to not knowing who World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee was, mistakenly claimed that the actual Queen of England had parachuted into the stadium with James Bond (as opposed to a body double), and described Madagascar as "a country associated with a few animated movies".
NBC Olympic broadcasts | 2012 opening ceremony
When organiser Bob Geldof was persuading artists to take part in the concert, he promised them that it would be a one-off event, never to be seen again. That was the reason why the concert was never recorded in its complete original form, and only secondary television broadcasts were recorded. Following Geldof's request, ABC erased its own broadcast tapes. However, before the syndicated/ABC footage was erased, copies of it were donated to the Smithsonian Institution and have now been presumed lost. The ABC feed of the USA for Africa/"We Are The World" finale does exist in its entirety, complete with the network end credits, and can be found as a supplemental feature on the "We Are The World: The Story Behind The Song" DVD.
Live Aid | Live Aid recordings
Broadcaster Richard Skinner opened the Live Aid concert with the words: The concert was the most ambitious international satellite television venture that had ever been attempted at the time. In Europe, the TV feed was supplied by the BBC, whose broadcast was presented by Richard Skinner, Andy Kershaw, Mark Ellen, David Hepworth, Andy Batten-Foster, Steve Blacknell, Paul Gambaccini, Janice Long and Mike Smith and included numerous interviews and chats in between the various acts. The BBC's television sound feed was mono, as was all UK TV audio before NICAM was introduced, but the BBC Radio 1 feed was stereo and was simulcast in sync with the TV pictures.
Live Aid | Broadcasts
The footage of the BBC and ITV coverage became victim to the current broadcasting policy of either eventually erasing videotapes or simply not keeping them. It is not definitely known what happened to the original tapes. This led to rumours that they were taped over almost immediately with horse racing, that the coverage was barely taped at all, or that the tapes fell to bits during digital remastering. All these rumours have since been discounted. BBC footage known to exist is a mix of fragments kept in the archive and amateur recordings made at the time. All that are known to exist from the ITV archives are two taped interviews by Peter Sissons at Jodrell Bank.
British television Apollo 11 coverage | Missing/existing footage
Once the first set of artists had signed up, broadcasters were approached, starting with the BBC. Alan Yentob, recently appointed controller of BBC2, said that he would provide five hours of airtime – and more if the bill improved. After several more top artists were added, the BBC agreed to televise the whole show. Before the concert, 24 Conservative MPs put down a House of Commons motion, criticising the BBC for giving "publicity to a movement that encourages the African National Congress in its terrorist activities". However, no appeal was either planned or made. Further, the artists’ contracts – which in many cases were signed backstage at Wembley – laid down that no proceeds from the income of the event should go "towards the purchase of or in any other connection with armaments".
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute | Broadcast politics
Coverage of the final was interrupted to bring live coverage of the Iranian Embassy Siege. David Vine continued to be the main host for the BBC's TV coverage until 2000, with David Icke as prominent second host from 1985 to 1990, and Dougie Donnelly through the 1990s. For some years commentary was primarily by Ted Lowe, Clive Everton and Jack Karnehm although John Pulman, Vera Selby and others were used. In 1986 Jim Meadowcroft, John Spencer and John Virgo were used as summarisers. From 2001 to 2009 the BBC coverage was hosted by Hazel Irvine or Ray Stubbs. From 2010, Hazel Irvine took over with highlights presented by Rishi Persad.
World Snooker Championship | Television coverage
During the broadcast, the show was interrupted every few minutes with commercials from AM&A's and other sponsors, ending with the disclaimer that it was just a dramatization. However, at four minutes before midnight, Jefferson Kaye interrupted the taped events to give this disclaimer, but not until after he threatened director Danny Kriegler that he would rip the still-playing tape off its machine and run along Buffalo's Main Street with it if he was not allowed to break in, as the number of calls received by the station from frightened listeners were getting out of hand: What you are listening to is a dramatization of H.G.
The War of the Worlds (1968 radio drama) | Disclaimers
In addition to HBO, other concerts from the tour were also recorded and broadcast; one of the Yokohama dates was recorded and released exclusively in Japan under the title "Blond Ambition - Japan Tour 90". Spanish broadcaster TVE aired the Barcelona concert in 30 countries. One of the shows at London's Wembley Stadium was broadcast on BBC Radio 1, which led to controversy over the profanity Madonna used live on air. The "Los Angeles Times" gave the original broadcast a negative review, saying that the show didn't work as a television experience because it was "less a concert than an unfolding passion play" that was "rendered ponderous by distracting camera angles".
Blond Ambition World Tour Live | Release and reception
When the booming bass and strobing lights undercut the most important thing, the music...". Mark Beaumont of "The Guardian" rated the duo's performance four out of five stars, expressing "Their cool-cop/goofball-cop act is perfectly, and powerfully, weighted. ... Joking aside, RTJ are the hip-hop clowns becoming politico princes."
Run the World Tour | Critical reception
The footage was shot using eight cameras total. Two Canon Elura cameras with wide angle lenses were placed in and behind Butch Vig's drum kit, two Canon XL1 cameras set on tripods (centre and stage-right) were positioned in the balcony, two handheld Canon XL1 cameras (one operated by director LaBarre) were the pit in front of the stage, and a Canon XL1 handheld camera was run by DP Johnson on the stage-left. As of 2020, the full show has not been released though LaBarre still has all the audio and video tapes from the show archived for potential future use.
Beautiful Garbage World Tour | Broadcast and recordings
The BBC told him that the tape used for the broadcast was re-used, a common practice on some networks in the early days of television.
The Compartment | Introduction
In 2019, Horner joined the team of broadcaster NBC for their coverage of the Tour de France, acting as a commentator.
Chris Horner | Broadcasting career
This program annually selects six to seven young artists and ensembles from around the world to make BBC recordings for broadcast and also sponsors a series of concerts in the United Kingdom. This relationship resulted in the group's recording of three Beethoven string quartets (Op. 18 No.4, Op. 95, and Op. 135).
Pavel Haas Quartet | Tours
Periodically, Friendly created recordings of news events when such recordings didn't exist or, recreated ones that were considered too chaotic to use on an album . CBS correspondent David Schoenbrun, in his memoir "On and Off the Air", said he once was forced by Friendly to ask Charles de Gaulle if he would recreate the speech he gave upon his return to Paris (de Gaulle refused). The recreations never were identified as such, and trying to separate the real from the recreated, continues to be problematic for radio historians.
Fred W. Friendly | Early career
When asked if the network would edit or censor the singer's "lewd" behavior, Bitterman responded that "if she's doing it, the audience will see it. We're not editing anything out. [...] We want it to feel live - as if you were there". During the concert Madonna told the cameras: "You know what I have to say to America? Get a fucking sense of humor, okay?". It was not a pay-per-view special, as the channel wanted to distinguish itself from its pay-TV rival, Showtime, and it was predicted to be HBO's highest rated special since Mike Tyson and Frank Bruno's heavyweight fight, which aired on February 1989.
Blond Ambition World Tour Live | Background
For "Until the End of the World", Bono often played with a camera, kissing the lens and thrusting it into his crotch, a stark contrast from his more earnest stage behaviour of the past. Beginning with "Outside Broadcast", the band began playing "New Year's Day" afterwards. During "Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World", Bono danced with a young female fan from the crowd (a ritual he had done more solemnly on past tours), shared camcorder video filming duties with her, and sprayed champagne. At this point in the show, Mullen sometimes sang a solo performance of "Dirty Old Town".
Zoo TV Tour | Main set
"Brain of Britain" was also broadcast on BBC World Service for many years; in fact, talk show host David Letterman was a fan of the show, and invited 1993 winner Geoffrey Colton to appear on his talk show. However, some World Service broadcasts had cuts in them to fit the show as well as a news bulletin into the time slot, resulting in some apparent rules irregularities (for example, a contestant would be asked a question and give a correct answer, and then the next question would go to another contestant without it being the first contestant's fifth consecutive correct answer).
Brain of Britain | Broadcast
Dann came from Radio 1, via BBC TV's Whistle Test, and developed an album-oriented music policy. GLR was aimed at "people who hate pop but love music, hate prattle" (excessive on-air talk) "but want to know what's what where in the world". The station was aimed at 25- to 45-year-olds, who perhaps grew up with Radio 1, but now wanted to be intelligently informed about the city in which they live, and the world in general. Early promotions used the phrase "rock 'n' rolling news". Much of the daytime speech output covered London events and nightlife, with comedians and other artists being interviewed.
BBC Radio London | 1988–2000: Greater London Radio (GLR)
A triad out of the blue signaled the end, which the large audience recognized and applauded."
Michael Laucke | World tours
The Dangerous World Tour was the second world concert tour by American singer Michael Jackson to promote his eighth studio album "Dangerous". The tour was sponsored by Pepsi-Cola. All profits were donated to various charities including Jackson's own "Heal the World Foundation". The tour ran from June 27, 1992, to November 11, 1993, playing 69 concerts to nearly 4 million people.
Dangerous World Tour | Introduction
Despite the show being broadcast before the watershed in the United Kingdom, there was no attempt at censorship by the "BBC". The network came under fire for its coverage of the Live 8 concerts due to the amount of live swearing by several performers that was broadcast before the watershed. Madonna, Snoop Dogg, Razorlight, Green Day, U2 and Velvet Revolver were also criticised for their use of foul language during their performances. An investigation by the UK media regulator Ofcom ruled that television audiences were subjected to "the most offensive language" and demanded that the "BBC" issue an on-air apology.
Live 8 | Uncensored broadcasts
Both studios were unused for a couple of years.
BBC News at One | History
The episode was broadcast on 30 July 2006.
The Who Tour 2006–2007 | History
He also shot Live 8 in Hyde Park as an official photographer in 2005. Record album covers featuring his live work include Queen's "Live Magic", "Live at Wembley '86", "Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl", "Knebworth '90", Thin Lizzy's 'Wild One: the Very Best of Thin Lizzy' & 'Still Dangerous: Live at the Tower Theatre Philadelphia', Pink Floyd's "P*U*L*S*E", Sting's 'Bring on the Night', The Cure's 'Seventeen Seconds', Duran Duran's "", and the Rolling Stones' "Forty Licks".
Denis O'Regan | World tours
Every summer, Bennett and Davies tour the nation playing a stream of live tours which bring together footballing loving Americans in a theater setting with guests including Waka Flocka, Sam Darnold, and Julie Ertz. The tours were the subject of a "Real Sports" feature on HBO.
Roger Bennett (journalist) | Live Tours
The tour went heavily into debt, with Waters using his own money at one point to underwrite the expense, as there were massive overruns and delays. The tour was proposed to go worldwide, but due to financial considerations these discussions never went any further, and the tour ended.
Radio K.A.O.S. | Tour
Former presenters at the station include ITV Sport commentator Jon Champion and Sky Sports commentator Rob Hawthorne and Will Hanrahan, who went on to present Look North and report for "Good Morning with Anne and Nick". Victor Lewis-Smith started his BBC career here, presenting his chat and music programme, "Snooze Button", on Sunday mornings in 1984. "Countdown" host Richard Whiteley made several guest appearances in the early 2000s. "The Grand Tour" front-man Richard Hammond was also once a presenter.
BBC Radio York | Notable former presenters
He requested that U2 visit Sarajevo to bring attention to the war and break the "media fatigue" that had occurred from covering the conflict. Bono wanted the band to play a concert in the city, but their tour schedule prevented this, and McGuinness believed that a concert there would make them and their audience targets for the Serbian aggressors. Instead, the group agreed to use the tour's satellite dish to conduct live video transmissions between their concerts and Carter in Sarajevo. Carter returned to the city and was able to assemble a video unit. The band had to purchase a satellite dish to be sent to Sarajevo and had to pay a £100,000 fee to join the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
Zoo TV Tour | Sarajevo satellite transmissions
The programmes will neither be very interesting nor very good. This address was read out five times as the BBC broadcast it live to different parts of the world.
BBC World Service | History
O'Brien began hosting a new show in Letterman's old timeslot, taking over the "Late Night" name on September 13, 1993. When Letterman left, NBC asserted their intellectual property rights to several of the most popular "Late Night" segments. Letterman easily adapted to these restrictions for his CBS show: The "Viewer Mail" segment was continued under the name "CBS Mailbag," and "Late Night" fixture Larry "Bud" Melman continued his antics under his real name, Calvert DeForest. Similarly, the in-house band (now free to add horns) was unable to use the name "The World's Most Dangerous Band," so the name was changed to "Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra".
Late Night with David Letterman | Letterman moves to CBS
The bicycles were his own, as he is a keen cyclist, owning an early Burrows Windcheetah as well as a mountain bike fitted with an early front monoblade. This series was transferred to BBC2, where its scope became national, a different region being the subject of each episode. "Big Questions" , a five-part Channel 4 science series for young people that he presented received a BAFTA nomination in 2002.
Adam Hart-Davis | Career in broadcasting
URN once held the world record for the longest continuous broadcast by a single presenter at 42 hours. More recently, Steve Doran accomplished a 40-hour continuous broadcast in November 2005 for Children in Need. In 2016, four teams walked 50 miles in under 24 hours in aid of Sport Relief
University Radio Nottingham | Stunts
The programme is usually recorded in front of an audience on Thursday evenings at the BBC Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in central London. It is then edited and broadcast first on Friday evening at 18:30, then repeated on the Saturday lunchtime. The final 28 minute show is significantly shorter than the original recording. In 2012 the BBC began making an extended version for BBC Radio 4 Extra. Each week, four panellists appear on the show. They are usually either comedians or journalists, and sometimes politicians. Journalists predominated in the early years. The ostensible purpose of the show is to test contestants' knowledge of the events of the previous week by asking questions which are usually oblique references to those events.
The News Quiz | Transmission
The concert was broadcast live on HBO from The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan on August 26, 2001. Known as "Madonna Live! – Drowned World Tour 2001", the broadcast was announced by Nancy Geller, senior vice president of HBO Original Programming. She commented, "It's a thrill for us to have Madonna back, because we know it is going to be a spectacular show, with that combination of her amazing talent and extravagant style which only Madonna can bring." It was produced by Marty Callner and directed by Hamish Hamilton. "Gone" was performed for the television broadcast and DVD release.
Drowned World Tour | Broadcast and recordings
Clarkson, Hammond and May had been presenters on BBC's "Top Gear", both as part of the rotating hosts of the original, and permanent hosts for the 2002 rebooted series up through 2015. Under them, the show had an estimated worldwide audience of 350 million, and listed by "Guinness World Records" as the highest-viewed factual television programme. Due to , the BBC chose not to renew Clarkson's contract with the show in March 2015. Both May and Hammond affirmed they would not return to "Top Gear" without Clarkson, even though the BBC offered them lucrative salaries to remain on for additional series.
The Grand Tour | History
The broadcast was produced in association with HBO and was titled "Madonna – Live Down Under: The Girlie Show". Initially, the November 20 show, the second of two dates at the Sydney Cricket Ground, was to be filmed and aired. However, a massive storm forced the cancellation of the show, so the November 19 show, which had been filmed as a "safety show", was aired instead in USA (HBO) and Germany (Premiere). A month later an edited version of this original broadcast was shown on Sky in the UK. A re-edited version of this concert was released worldwide on VHS and LaserDisc on April 26, 1994, as "".
The Girlie Show World Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
The concert of the National Auditorium of Mexico and the concert in Luna Park of Buenos Aires was broadcast by a national transmission.
Tour Anfibio | Broadcast and Recordings
Everything’s massive, everything’s larger than life on stage so when we hit the studio we wanted it to have that same impact". Guitarist Mark Sheehan also explained that "We come off stage and you can imagine the adrenaline is up there. You can smoke or drink it away, but with a studio there’s somewhere to expel that nervous energy". The 3 World Tour began in September 2012 and ended in July 2013. O'Donoghue, in addition to touring with the band, had served as one of the four coaches for the first and second series of BBC talent show "The Voice UK", having coached Andrea Begley to win the second series of the program.
No Sound Without Silence | Recording
On the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, the BBC immediately put into effect its contingency plans to move much of its broadcasting away from London to places thought less at risk of bombing. Its musical department, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, moved to Bristol. The BBC withdrew not only the players, but financial support from the Proms. Wood determined that the 1940 season would nevertheless go ahead. The Royal Philharmonic Society and a private entrepreneur, Keith Douglas, agreed to back an eight-week season, and the London Symphony Orchestra was engaged. The concerts continued through air raids, and audiences often stayed in the hall until early morning, with musical entertainments continuing after the concerts had finished.
Queen's Hall | Second World War
Prior to the World Now contract, the web addresses were powered by Web Pros. On October 3, 2008, LIN TV pulled WDTN (and its other stations) from Time Warner Cable, due to a dispute over "retransmission fees." Time Warner replaced WDTN with a free preview of HBO Family.
WDTN | Return to NBC
He went on to say; ""I have been performing sword swallowing for a few years now, it is extremely dangerous. Lesev is a great rider, the skill he shows in the Globe of Death fascinates me but teaming up was still no easy decision to make. There is a lot of trust needed on both parties as one false move could have had devastating consequences for either of us. I have performed in Belgium before but have never performed in Brussels until now, there was an amazing atmosphere and the audiences throughout the weekend were fantastic.""
Johnny Strange | Publicity
The channel ceased broadcasting on analogue satellite on 18 April 2006.
BBC World News | Broadcasting
The performances of "No Strings Attached", "Digital Get Down" and the medley were edited out.
No Strings Attached Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
The BBC retained the rights to televise the Grand National live worldwide for the 38th consecutive year. The coverage was presented by Des Lynam, and broadcast to an estimated global audience of 400 million people. At the time of the evacuation the broadcasting team were evacuated too, with the exception of commentator Jim McGrath who was located in the commentary position at the far extreme of the course. McGrath continued to cover the events of the evacuation until the end of the scheduled broadcast. The BBC covered the rescheduled race live on the Monday evening. The bomb scare overshadowed the final broadcast of lead commentator Peter O'Sullevan, who had called the Grand National for the BBC on radio and then television every year since 1946.
1997 Grand National | Coverage
Reith effectively censored anything that he felt would be harmful, directly or indirectly. While recounting his time with the BBC in 1935, Raymond Postgate claims that BBC broadcasters were made to submit a draft of their potential broadcast for approval. It was expected that they tailored their content to accommodate the modest, church-going elderly or a member of the Clergy. Until 1928, entertainers broadcasting on the BBC, both singers and "talkers" were expected to avoid biblical quotations, Clerical impersonations and references, references to drink or Prohibition in America, vulgar and doubtful matter and political allusions. The BBC excluded popular foreign music and musicians from its broadcasts, while promoting British alternatives.
BBC | 1927 to 1939
His last radio newscast included a report of the death of singer Andy Gibb. Beginning June 2, 1980, Douglas Edwards anchored a daily one-minute-fourteen-second edition of "Newsbreak" at 11:57 a.m. Eastern Time. In 1988, at the age of 70, Edwards retired from broadcasting work after 46 years with CBS. He appeared as himself in NPR's 1988 re-creation of Orson Welles' 1938 radio theater presentation of "The War of the Worlds", directed by The Firesign Theater's David Ossman and starring Jason Robards and Steve Allen with various NPR announcers.
Douglas Edwards | Return to CBS Radio Network
The incident from the world premiere in 1937, when the live broadcast was cut off by the NBC network during the performance, was re-created, using tapes of the announcer. There is no documented account of the reason for the interruption of the broadcast. In 1934 Dett, and/or his publisher, registered strong objections to saxophonist Frank Trumbauer's swing band adaptation of "Juba Dance", from the suite "In the Bottoms." Brunswick Records was compelled to withdraw the recording (#6763) from release.
Robert Nathaniel Dett | Legacy and honours
As the series was shot with a 16:9-safe area, the remastered series is an open matte of the original 4:3 framing. Creator David Simon approved the new version, and worked with HBO to remove film equipment and crew members, and solve actor sync problems in the widened frame. The remastered series debuted on HBO Signature, airing the entire series consecutively, and on HBO GO on December 26, 2014. In the United Kingdom, the show has been broadcast on FX until 2009 when the BBC bought terrestrial television rights to "The Wire" in 2008, when it was broadcast on BBC Two, although controversially it was broadcast at 11:20 pm and catchup was not available on BBC iPlayer.
The Wire | Broadcasters
Audience members inside the studios used their mobile phones to relay live information about the recording's progress. James Lyons, political correspondent for the "Daily Mirror", wrote that the mood in the studio turned from anger to mockery of Griffin. A full audience attended the making of the programme and there were no protests in the studio. One audience member suggested that a "half dozen" BNP members in the studio shouted encouragement to Griffin. The show was broadcast on BBC One at 10.35 pm (BST) and at 11.05 pm on BBC One Wales.
Question Time British National Party controversy | Recording
In the 2000s, Broadcasting House was expanded to include a new wing and modernise the site, replacing earlier extensions. It was designed by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard. Originally named the Egton Wing, it was renamed to the John Peel Wing in 2012, in memory of the radio broadcaster. The Paris Theatre was located in a converted cinema in Lower Regent Street, near other BBC buildings. Several rock groups performed live concerts here, including The Beatles, Queen and Pink Floyd, which were simultaneously recorded for broadcast. The BBC stopped using the theatre in 1995.
Regent Street | Broadcasting
In some years, "Land of Hope and Glory" and the other favourites were left out of the programme but reinstated after press and public outrage. In an exception, for the 2001 Last Night concert following the September 11 attacks, the conductor Leonard Slatkin substituted a more serious programme, featuring Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings", but despite the success of this occasion, the now traditional pieces returned the following year. During the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, the BBC announced a decision not to feature "Land of Hope and Glory" as well as Rule Britannia in the Last Night of the Proms running order.
Land of Hope and Glory | BBC Proms