Car crashes into TV studio during the news

It happened last night in Chicago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGOmEhRfBhg

The station uses a streetside studio that allows passersby to watch the news being produced.

you beat me to IT!

Wow! I can't believe they continued with the live OB/report instead of showing what was happening in the studio straight away.

Now thats what you call breaking news

Let's hope Santa buys you a coat for Christmas then!



Typhical America though - trying to build up a relatively small crash into an international terrorist incident!

The presenter's reaction is funny, I wonder if this will feature on ITV News tonight, it's an interesting 'and finally' story

I do wonder why they have 'streetside' studios in America, I could understand it for a magazine show, but you don't want people waving behind the main news surely?

Maybe a magazine show comes from the same studio? You couldn't see the street from the part of the studio used for the news but they did have an area with two chairs which might be used for other shows or lighter news stories.

It was quite handy for them actually. Meant they had two minutes to compose themselves, make sure nothing absolutely disastrous was going to happen and try to work out what was going on.

They've done a cracking job, but if it had happened outwith a report I'm not quite sure how they would have handled it. Obviously you've got to look after your own safety first.

Many steetside studios, including this one, actually have the set facing in the other direction, away from the street. This set-up allows onlookers to see the news being made, but the audience is shown by a different camera for just a few seconds at a time (during the toss to weather, before commercial breaks, at the end, etc.). The audience is not seen behind the anchors.

I believe that set is used mainly for the morning news.

It happened just as the presenter finished the question to the reporter, even the best news director in the world wouldn't have the reaction time to assess the situation and decide to abandon the live straight away.

Even once it had happened they wouldn't have wanted to risk showing the immediate aftermath of the accident. It's best to keep going with something from an OB, which on this one occasion would have been more straightforward, and controlled than the studio

Indeed, I've known incidents where's there's been absolute chaos in a studio/gallery due to a problem and being able to throw to a reporter who can cover things for a few minutes is very handy!