Excellent coverage by BBC News from 20.15-22.00 last night-spot on with tip top on the spot reporters covering the essentials from every angle. Well done especially Peter Hunt!.....but but but....where was Peter Witchell?-who previously yesterday  -for obvious reasons-had been claiming that nothing was happening?
The answer came at 22.00 with the BBC1 bulletin--when he was back on air introduced as our correspondent at St Mary's. After a short on air summary of what we already knew--he then introduced a 10 minute segment which was basically an edited version of what had already gone out before on the News Channel.

WG wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2013, 9:02am:


Not too much coverage according to the BBC website Complaints page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complaint/bbcnewsroyalbabycoverage/
"BBC News, Royal Baby coverage, July 2013
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Complaint

We received complaints from some viewers who feel there has been too much coverage of the royal baby story and also from some who feel that the coverage has been biased in favour of the monarchy.

Response from BBC News

Over the past few days the birth of the royal baby has been a lead story for BBC News, but our editors have taken care that other stories have been covered too. There have been some key moments - the announcement of the birth and the appearance of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with the new prince, where we have offered rolling coverage, particularly on the BBC News Channel which is a service which focuses on big events and occasions, and new viewers join all the time. But the News Channel also ran a range of other news and most of its scheduled sport bulletins. There have been a wide range of stories across the rest of our output too. We reported on the Prime Minister's announcement on internet restrictions on pornography, the "help to buy" mortgage scheme, the Pope's visit to Brazil, Chris Froome's win in the Tour de France, and the charging of a man for the murder of PC Keith Blakelock, which led the Radio 4 Six O'Clock News on Tuesday evening. BBC One viewers were offered full News at Six and News at Ten bulletins on Monday and Tuesday with a wide range of stories.

We know from our audience figures that our coverage of the royal baby has been extremely popular - Monday was the biggest global day and second biggest UK day ever for BBC News online with 19.4m unique browsers globally and 10.8m from the UK. We are satisfied that our audiences had both the best coverage of a major historical event - the birth of a new heir to the throne - as well as options to view other news across BBC output as a whole.

We have also been careful to feature a range of contributors and opinions across our coverage, including those who do not support the monarchy or the attention this event has received. This included featuring the opinions of Republic, which campaigns for the abolition of the monarchy and a number of other voices. "

"We received complaints from some viewers who feel there has been too much coverage of the royal baby story and also from some who feel that the coverage has been biased in favour of the monarchy."

Bit late on this, I'm afraid, living in the sticks in Spain, but how, pray, can coverage of a royal birth be anything other than "biased in favour of the monarchy"?
For what it's worth, the event was all over the place on Spanish TV, and lead item on the news when the first baby pics emerged.