Anglia News/Look East

I should point out that the in my post is not me - I don't work there - but belongs to the poor sod who programmed the n/w switching for the morning. He is now reputed to be being questioned by the fakirs and having a skull wedged sideways up his backside.....

Incident is now on YouTube

www.youtube.com/v/BkTV2Jza0xc

ROTFLMAO!!

Fantastic clip... I don't feel sorry for her one bit...

It seems like a minute or so has been cut off that clip, as I remember it going on for longer and the Anglia News DOG and Name Tag Aston appearing when she started reading it.

why? [as far as we know] she was cut to air remotely without the knowledge of the director or herself. a situation beyond her control. presumably before the bulletin she was rehearsing and therefore a degree of communication between herself and the other 1 or 2 people in the gallery is to be expected.

as others have pointed out she seemed to keep it together at a point where many would have been too mortified to carry on.

It's not the first time this has happened either.

In about 1993-94, So Rahman was doing the Granada breakfast opts from Liverpool and, despite the opt coming bang on time - no switching errors or the like - he sat there, doodling and gossiping with the director, blissfully unaware he should be on the air. In that case though you could hear a loud female scouse voice in the background screech "er, So, we're on air. So!"

Then he REALLY looked like a rabbit in the headlights, and just started reading the first story without so much as a greeting!

I'm guessing back then, local operators performed their own opts? So would that have been done by MCR in Manchester (as this was pre-Leeds, wasn't it?) or in the News control room in Liverpool?

Before anyone asks, no I've not got caps of this. Got taped over years back.

She doesnt seem to act as if she is aware they had been on air any sooner than she expected in the youtube clip

I think it's pretty well established that no one at Anglia knew the region was on air, Emma included, up to the moment she starts reading the headlines and the graphics appear. As its been reported, they were still receiving VT and countdowns from London, which were counting to the opt time of 8:08am. It's just switching error at LNN put the majority of the regions on too early, some noticed and read the news (multiple times), others were totally unaware. Unfortunately, with how automation and the switching systems work nowadays, things like this can and will happen, all they need is a slight error on the times programmed onto the computer.

In reality, she replies to an unheard statement from someone off-screen "Is this your wife or Jan [you are talking about]?"



Clearly "Morning, Mrs Seamus"



I had to look it up, but ashen means 'pale' and this just didn't happen.

From what I saw when it happened live, she did go a little pale, so I just think the YouTube clip isn't doing it justice.

The youtube clip doesn't do it justice.

I thought the trick with the collapsing nest box played by Stuart and Suzy on weather girl Julie Reinger was a bit cruel but incredibly funny. It doesn't take much to make Julie speechless but she looked so stunned at the time I think she'll take the rest of the week to get over it.