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(March 2006)

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IS
Inspector Sands
Westy2 posted:

On the subject of Central Weekend, was this the same edition where they accidentally cut LWT to air, who was transmitting their own regional prog & ISTR it was a bit risque, from later reports?


You're not getting it confused with LWT who accidently cut RTL to air during a Friday Night Richard Littlejohn programme..... during a raunchy lesbian film
RT
rts Founding member
Emily Matlis interviewing Isreali Prime Minister Ehud Barack, and asking if person x had "saved his bacon".
HA
Hazzamon
rts posted:
Emily Matlis interviewing Isreali Prime Minister Ehud Barack, and asking if person x had "saved his bacon".


Oh dear! Laughing
TP
Techy Peep Founding member
Seeing the 60 Seconds thread and this one reminded me of another classic...
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Ha ha, seeing this thread turning into a Nicky shrine, and the other thread about funniest News moments reminds me of when Nicky had to present an overnight bulletin at the very last second on World/N24. Do you remember it Nicky

I recall the TD on Sound turning to me at about -10 of my count going on air asking where <PRESENTER> was? Imagine the reaction in the output suite! We could sustain N24s output with a holding menu until we found <PRESENTER>, but World Pres couldn't as all the BBCs partners around the globe were automatically opting in exactly at the top of the hour.

Nicky, who was producing that night, was thankfully wearing a shirt & tie, his jacket somewhere in the Newsroom. He legged it to the studio position and took the Presenters seat with about a second to spare before the opening titles ran out. Taking off-air cues from the floor monitor, gasping slightly from his quick sprint, he read through the headlines, then back in vision for the first story. During the VT, he plugged in the earpiece and put on the personal mic whilst I took his jacket over to him. Meanwhile, the Media Manager was sent to look around the News Centre for <PRESENTER>

Still no sign of <PRESENTER>, so Nicky read into the next VT. As he's reading, we see a bleery-eyed <PRESENTER> looking quite bemused wandering around the back of shot, then walking into the Output Suite to see what was happening.

I think I decided it best if Nicky carry on presenting the whole programme as he started it, but I'm not 100% sure of that. Did you read the whole bulletin in the end Nicky?
MO
Moogtastic
Somebody switched over to Central News East too early last night. We could see Steve Clamp and Samina Ali-Khan having a strange conversation, which culminated in Steve Clamp punching the air, saying "it is something you can really stand up for"... then they both realised they were both on air and their facial expressions were priceless!

Luckily somebody realised-- and they cut back to the commercial break. When the programme began properly, Steve and Sam didn't mention the faux-pas!
SP
Spencer
Matrix posted:
This'll rake the memory but my personal favourite was Angela Rippons, yes her, classic "We apologise to our deaf viewers for the loss of subtitles"

You can't get much better than that!


I could have sworn that was Kenneth Kendall. Perhaps he made the same mistake.
GG
Gary Glitter
Techy Peep posted:
Seeing the 60 Seconds thread and this one reminded me of another classic...
Quote:
Ha ha, seeing this thread turning into a Nicky shrine, and the other thread about funniest News moments reminds me of when Nicky had to present an overnight bulletin at the very last second on World/N24. Do you remember it Nicky

I recall the TD on Sound turning to me at about -10 of my count going on air asking where <PRESENTER> was? Imagine the reaction in the output suite! We could sustain N24s output with a holding menu until we found <PRESENTER>, but World Pres couldn't as all the BBCs partners around the globe were automatically opting in exactly at the top of the hour.

Nicky, who was producing that night, was thankfully wearing a shirt & tie, his jacket somewhere in the Newsroom. He legged it to the studio position and took the Presenters seat with about a second to spare before the opening titles ran out. Taking off-air cues from the floor monitor, gasping slightly from his quick sprint, he read through the headlines, then back in vision for the first story. During the VT, he plugged in the earpiece and put on the personal mic whilst I took his jacket over to him. Meanwhile, the Media Manager was sent to look around the News Centre for <PRESENTER>

Still no sign of <PRESENTER>, so Nicky read into the next VT. As he's reading, we see a bleery-eyed <PRESENTER> looking quite bemused wandering around the back of shot, then walking into the Output Suite to see what was happening.

I think I decided it best if Nicky carry on presenting the whole programme as he started it, but I'm not 100% sure of that. Did you read the whole bulletin in the end Nicky?


[Mod Edit. Seems some can't work out why <PRESENTER> was written above instead of their name Rolling Eyes ]
WE
Westy2
Inspector Sands posted:
Westy2 posted:

On the subject of Central Weekend, was this the same edition where they accidentally cut LWT to air, who was transmitting their own regional prog & ISTR it was a bit risque, from later reports?


You're not getting it confused with LWT who accidently cut RTL to air during a Friday Night Richard Littlejohn programme..... during a raunchy lesbian film


I remember that being mentioned now, come to think of it, but didn't Central do something similar on one show, or am I confusing it with something else?

Didn't Central, on this particular edition, keep cutting to an apology caption & music ISTR?
SD
sda|
Central News West 2003, which first 20 seconds of the 6pm bulletin was just Charlie Neil, moving around a bit, gasping just as they finally cut to the programme!

Caused much mirth at the time!
AJ
AJSR
I know this isn't TV news, but one of my own favourites was on BBC Radio 4 - the Today programme.

Charlotte Green was reading the news which included a story about a foreign leader with an unusual name...

The next item was about a Sperm Whale and Jim Naughtie and Sue McGregor were overcome with giggles... not to mention Charlotte struggling through the news.

I remember hearing it live and it was fantastic..., there is a clip of part of the incident here (but sadly I think they've cut some of it out... I remember stifled giggles happening through the next couple of items).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ (Choose the link to Laughing Matter on the right).

Charlotte talked about the incident here (but personally I'd advise listening to it first!):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,1160641,00.html
TE
tesandco Founding member
There was a good clip from Calendar News on this subject. Originally caught rather luckily by Ashley whilst he was grabbing idents for his TV Box site, it nowadays resides about half way down the mistakes page on TV Whirl. Basically what looks like a rehearsal is going on in the Calendar East broomcupboard, when someone accidentally cuts it to air at the start of the main programme, resulting in a slightly bemused expression as she realises.
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