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Big Ben sounds nine times. You expect the Nine o’clock News from the BBC Home Service on the wireless. The announcer says: ‘There is no news tonight.’
This really happened. See Scannell and Cardiff’s Social History of British Broadcasting (vol. I p.118): An austere conception of news values continued to govern the selection of material for broadcasting. When news of the quality required was lacking no efforts were made to pad out the bulletins to a standard length. On Good Friday 1930, in the view of the news editors, ‘there was no news of the normal type or standard for broadcasting, and as a result no news bulletin was given. The announcer simply declared “there is no news tonight”. ’
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