What would the rest of the network have seen when the crash card came up? A chance it could have triggered an equivalent at each station?
Yes, each station would have done their own thing and put up their own equivalent... assuming they were quick enough which they might not have been for the first occasion
It would be really interesting to see another region's version of that clip. The director instructs Pres to take the crash card away after the second balls up is rectified - would all the regions hear this, but with only LNN having the ability to talk back to Fountain?
LNN didn't go back right away as directed because the announcer was in the middle of apologising - does that mean other regions may have gone back slightly sooner?
Sorry for harking back to the Talking Telephone Numbers clip but I'd seen inferior discussion of it on DS, I thought I hadn't missed a discussion here, I didn't think of looking in this forum.
How other regions would have handled it is interesting to me, presumably only Carlton had a link to the production gallery in their role as nominated contractor, so did Carlton then have an open talkback link to the other regions of would breakdown cards have been fired manually based on watching the programme off air in each region.
The bit at the end of the second breakdown where the director shouts "Pres go back, pres go back, PRES GO BACK!" Presumably only applied to Carlton, other regions may have been slower to go back, particularly if they did a 'well we are glad to say we can return...' Announcement, and if they had done that the winning phone number might have been on screen for only a few seconds.
