'9/11' and Diana funeral among TV's most memorable moments: poll
LONDON (AFP) — Television footage of planes crashing into the World Trade Center on 9/11, the funeral of Princess Diana and the landing on the moon have been voted Britain's most memorable TV moments of the past 50 years, according to a poll published Tuesday.
Nearly half of the 2,000 viewers polled by digital TV service Freeview chose the iconic images of 11 September 2001 as their most memorable TV moment of the past few decades, with a further 29 percent saying it was the first time they had watched round-the-clock news coverage.
Diana's funeral and the first televised landing on the moon came in second and third place respectively.
Classic comedy and sports moments also made it into the top 10.
The research was carried out to coincide with a British town's switch-over from analogue to digital television, the first place in the UK to do so before the whole country goes digital by 2012. The switch is taking place in Cumbria's Whitehaven on Wednesday morning.
The Top 10 most memorable TV moments:
1) 9/11 - Fall of the twin Towers
2) Funeral of Princess Diana
3) First televised landing on the moon
4) Fall of the Berlin Wall
5) Bob Geldof asking us for our ?f******? money? during Live Aid
6) Two Ronnies ?Four Candles? sketch
7) Ricky Gervais dance in The Office
8) Monty Python?s Dead Parrot Sketch
9) England win the World Cup in 1966
10) Shooting of JFK
And as for what imaginative viewers would like to see on television by 2012:
1) England winning the Euro Championships
2) Prince William marrying Kate Middleton
3) British gold in the 100m final
