A radio station has apologised for “any distress caused” after accidentally announcing the King had died.<\/p>\n
Radio Caroline in Essex said in a post on social media the announcement had been made on Tuesday afternoon because of a \u201ccomputer error\u201d at its main studio.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday afternoon, playback for Tuesday\u2019s broadcast between 1.58pm and 5pm was unavailable on the station\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Station manager Peter Moore wrote on Facebook: \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
\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
The incident on Tuesday came as the King and Queen were in Northern Ireland, where they joined a performance with a folk group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A radio station has apologised for “any distress caused” after accidentally announcing the King had died. Radio Caroline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[69910,236,88,2153,90445,8831],"class_list":["post-656301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-british-royals","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-king-charles","tag-queen-camilla","tag-royalty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}