The most watched broadcast of all time: Honoring the Queen by serving her King
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral is likely to be the world’s most watched broadcast of all time with 4.1 billion viewers. Elizabeth was a Christian, and if the Queen of England, one of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world, needed a King, how much more do we?
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:35.8 | Today is Monday, September the 19th, 2022, and this is the Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:42.4 | Today's article was written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison |
| 0:47.0 | Forum. Up to a million people are lining the streets of London this morning for |
| 0:52.2 | Queen Elizabeth II State funeral. |
| 0:54.8 | 500 heads of state have assembled from around the world. The service is likely to be the |
| 0:59.9 | world's most watch broadcast of all time with 4.1 billion viewers. It began at 11 a.m. in the United |
| 1:08.1 | Kingdom, which is 6 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and 5 a.m. in Dallas. |
| 1:13.6 | If America's response so far to the Queen's death is any indication, we can assume that |
| 1:19.6 | millions of Americans are up watching. The New York Times wondered recently if Elizabeth was the |
| 1:26.0 | Queen of America. The article noted the NFL's first game of the season |
| 1:30.5 | observed a moment of silence for her. Apple turned over its homepage to a black and white photo of the |
| 1:37.6 | young monarch. Even the Old North Church in Boston, where two lanterns were held high in 1775 to warm that the British were coming, |
| 1:46.8 | invited visitors to sign a condolence book for the Queen. When Charles gave his first speech as |
| 1:52.1 | King, ABC, CBS, and NBC covered it live with CBS reporting 2.8 million viewers. By contrast, the broadcast networks declined to |
| 2:04.5 | televise a speech by President Biden a week earlier. Only 23% of Americans say that they have a |
| 2:10.4 | great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the presidency. In 1975, even after Watergate and the resignation of President Nixon, |
| 2:20.4 | the figure stood at 52%. Here's a lesson we dare not miss. America's fascination with the |
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