Royal Coverage Ramps Up with Vision TV, Rogers Media, YouTube Coverage

Extensive media coverage of the Royal Wedding has extended to cyber-space, with plans for live video streams of the event on the Royal YouTube Channel.

In a first for the media and the monarchy, footage of the royal wedding will be streamed in real time on YouTube's Royal Channel, accompanied by a live multi-media blog put together by St James's Palace. Points of interest along the processional route will be annotated and viewers around the world will be able to click to see additional information.

Here in Canada, Zoomer Magazine and Vision TV are teaming up to provide Canadians with British coverage of The Royal Wedding.

It starts with The Royal Wedding Insider, an hour long special that opens the Royal diaries to provide an inside look at the fashion, the marketing, the relationships of the Monarchy.

Leading up to the Royal Wedding, Zoomer Magazine Editor-in-Chief Suzanne Boyd and Deputy Editor & Beauty Director Kim Izzo, along with Zoomer Radio's John Gallagher, continue with the behind the scenes look the historical significance of the Monarchy. Hitting the ground in London, Kim Izzo will visit pubs where Canadian ex-pats talk about living within a stones throw of the castle.  

Then, starting at 6am, the wedding coverage the Brits are watching airs on VisionTV, as the specialty service airs The Royal Wedding Ceremony, live and commercial free.

Rogers Media also plans extensive multi-platform coverage leading up to, on the day of, and well after the day of the Royal Wedding, April 29. 

By combining its TV, online, print and mobile platforms, Rogers says it will keep viewers "in-the-know ...with the latest on everything royal" with special highlight shows, dedicated talk programs, themed biographies and, of course, live coverage.

The nuptials will be carried live on Citytv, and streamed online at Citytv.com/royalwedding and available on the Citytv.com app for iPad.  Rogers On Demand will have the complete wedding coverage available for repeat viewing until the end of July.

And yes, YouTube is getting in on the royal act.

The royal wedding will be broadcast live on YouTube, and of course, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr will also be used to keep the world up to date on the royal wedding day. Starting today, a video wedding book on Youtube is available "for the public to sign" by uploading their videoed messages for Prince William and Kate Middleton. The site will be moderated to filter out those not so enamoured with the royals.

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