To tell you the truth, I haven't been following it in such minute detail - yesterday I was at work as normal and Royal tittle-tattle has never been a subject of great interest.
I'm not sure why the other thread was closed, but as things stand with UK radio broadcasters, they have generally left the news simulcasts and gone back to their own programming. The BBC music stations are running with downbeat playlists and presenters discussing the Queen and (especially on younger-targeted Radio 1) the subjects of loss and grief more generally, and the commercial stations are doing very similar, playing maudlin tracks that fit their formats. A small number of stations have returned to their normal programming - there's a
local Dance station which has gone back to its usual format after a few hours of soft pop and which is holding its
annual music festival/concert today as scheduled.
I'm not sure the appetite for a long period of mourning music from radio is there in the country. I went to get my hair done yesterday lunchtime and the talk in the salon was of the "miserable music" on the radio, which was tuned to Global Radio's Heart network and was playing a selection of dreary love songs. It is a difficult balancing act for broadcasters - flip back to the usual format too quickly and they risk the outrage of the conservative press for being "disrespectful". Take too long to flip back, and they lose audience to Spotify and other music streamers, or to competitor stations which flip sooner. We have come out of a lengthy period of Covid-19 disruption and there simply isn't the mass appetite for yet more closures and cancelations of events.
I don't really watch live TV, but BBC1 TV this weekend is
wall-to-wall royal tributes, with regular programming available on BBC2. Many people will simply have switched to an on-demand streamer like Netflix or Amazon to watch non-royal programming as normal. Many people have legitimate criticisms of the Queen and Royal Family and their role in an oppressive empire and colonialism, and these concerns are not addressed in the endless wall-to-wall tribute programming made available by the BBC.
There is a very good article here on the TV situation:
Viewers can easily switch to streaming or social media if they tire of rolling updates and downbeat music
www.theguardian.com