VMPhil9,909 posts since 31 Mar 2005 7 November 2019 6:16pm Granada North West Today thegeek posted: commseng posted: Markymark posted: You all had microwaves That was the problem! One of our allocations at 2GHz (channel 1) was on 2460MHz, and was very prone to microwave ovens interfering. The bosses therefore decided that we were not to have them in our trucks, as warming a curry during transmission would take a link down! I know of a certain broadcast facility where an engineer warming up some falafel in the microwave set off the fire alarm and forced a high-profile primetime show off air... That wouldn't happen to be this incident? I think it was revealed afterwards that a microwave was the cause of the alarm going off… 1 thegeek gave kudos Permalink
UKnews843 posts since 26 Apr 2011 7 November 2019 10:41pm There was the unfortunately sited kettle* that knocked out coverage of Ed Milliband’s speech at the Labour Party Conference one year. I’ve a feeling that was a (non broadcast) contractor at fault. (*plugged in in the wrong place, not a spillage!) Permalink
dosxuk4,229 posts since 22 Oct 2005 7 November 2019 10:48pm Yorkshire Look North (Yorkshire) UKnews posted: There was the unfortunately sited kettle* that knocked out coverage of Ed Milliband’s speech at the Labour Party Conference one year. I’ve a feeling that was a (non broadcast) contractor at fault. (*plugged in in the wrong place, not a spillage!) Didn't Big Brother's Little Brother fall off air once in the Dermot O'Leary days because of a misplugged kettle? 1 Lewismpsmith gave kudos Permalink
Lewismpsmith91 posts since 12 May 2018 10 November 2019 9:25pm Meridian (South East) South East Today Not really a breakdown, but just now during the darts on Sky Sports, the scoreboard was showing the wrong scores before disappearing completely for about 2 minutes, meaning they had to keep cutting backwards and forwards to the actual scoreboard! Permalink
Brekkie32,258 posts since 4 Jan 2003 10 November 2019 10:28pm HTV Wales Wales Today That seems to happen quite often in darts - seen them use picture in picture before to show the arena scoreboard. I preferred the internet when it had a sense of humour. 1 Lewismpsmith gave kudos Permalink