NEVER have water in a TV studio . . .

A cup of water got spilt in the BBC Prime transmission suite last week. The engineer wasn't too happy as he got dragged away from his pint to rip apart the suite and start mopping up - with the channel still on-air. Still, he made it back to the bar while the equipment was drying out..... or that was his excuse!!!!

Don't tell me he was down his local when he should have been working! These BBC employees...!

Cheers, Asa

LOL @ Asa.  He was in the bar with me when he got the call.  Thank goodness it's just a few floors away from transmission!!

(Edited by andyrew at 7:49 pm on June 18, 2001)

He he

Reminds me of an incident about 3 or 4yrs ago when a cup of coffee was spilt into TC7's Sony 7000 vision mixer during Breakfast News!  Liquid on its own is generally not a problem in electonic equipment - engineers pull it out of service, put a hair-dryer to good use & put it back into service...

Unfortunately for the VERY upset vision mixer, he had been drinking coffee with THREE sugars in it! Argh!! Sugary things love to stick themselves onto anything - It took days to repair, and I think a very expensive bill from Uncle Sony

Poor guy!

Oh, the programme only JUST stayed on the air, by using the emergency mixer, when it was cleared of peoples sandwiches!!

(Edited by ScottC at 7:37 pm on June 21, 2001)