{"id":437330,"date":"2026-05-20T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/437330\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:50:08","slug":"uk-radio-station-error-triggers-false-king-charles-iii-death-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/437330\/","title":{"rendered":"UK radio station error triggers false King Charles III death announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"
The station then played the national anthem.<\/p>\n
Station manager Peter Moore apologised on Facebook.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to a computer error at our main studio, the death of a monarch procedure, which all UK stations hold in readiness while hoping not to require, was accidentally activated on Tuesday afternoon (May 19), mistakenly announcing that HM the King had passed away.<\/p>\n
Radio Caroline\u2019s station manager Peter Moore apologised for any distress caused. Photo \/ Radio Caroline<\/p>\n
\u201cRadio Caroline then fell silent as would be required, which alerted us to restore programming and issue an on-air apology.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaroline has been pleased to broadcast Her Majesty the Queen\u2019s, and now the King\u2019s, Christmas message and we hope to do so for many years to come.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe apologise to HM the King and to our listeners for any distress caused.\u201d<\/p>\n
King Charles, meanwhile, is alive and well on a trip to Northern Ireland with Queen Camilla.<\/p>\n
Recently, while in the seaside town of Newcastle, a bird pooed on the King\u2019s jacket, with a well-wisher telling Charles it was \u201cgood luck\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt least it didn\u2019t land on my head,\u201d the monarch replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The station then played the national anthem. Station manager Peter Moore apologised on Facebook. \u201cDue to a computer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,696,9344,38860,8604,9861,634,6179,30548,156,19959,16843,2082,107140,9860,28825,48460,111,139,69,4965,13655,1361,90807,1613,9938],"class_list":["post-437330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-announced","tag-announcement","tag-apologised","tag-caused","tag-charles","tag-death","tag-died","tag-distress","tag-entertainment","tag-error","tag-false","tag-for","tag-iii","tag-king","tag-kingdom","tag-mistakenly","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-radio","tag-station","tag-that","tag-triggers","tag-uk","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}