Worst ever tv related problem you've ever had?

For me, it would have to be the time I broke the SCART input attached to the TV which left me without sky for 2 weeks

I don't recall Earth's atmosphere vanishing for a fortnight.

Green Day got it wrong. It should have been "Wake me up when August ends".

I once took BBC One off air during the quiz show bit of the lottery.

I once somehow manage to screw up the continuity on a channel for the whole day. Pre-recorded continuity was playing in the wrong places, i.e. an ident link in a menu, ECP link in an ident. There was a channel premiere on that day as well. And on the transmissions logs, Playout didn't notice.

IBMS is so clunky.

The batteries died in my television's remote control.

The Paramount Comedy Channel used to do that most evenings when Phil Jupitus did the announcements. It was like that Two Ronnie's Mastermind sketch

I think Rod Hull's TV problem was probably the worst ever. It ultimately took his life.

Oh god! How did that happen? 😂

Could you not have used RF out instead?

The time when I did what I though was just a Freeview rescan but was actual a complete factory reset.

Which wouldn't have been a problem if a) the remote hadn't died so I was using the phone app - not any more once the reset wiped the WiFi settings - and b) Hitachi had given some way to get past the initial set up screens using the controls on the set itself.

This one wasn't mine, but I ended up dealing with the aftermath - ntl came out to fix an issue with my grandad's cable TV. They replaced the box but left the RF output on the default, which was co channel with BBC 2 from Emley, with the obvious results.

I caused an IEC mains connector to fall out of a DA crate, and cut the commentary circuits for about 6 broadcasters at the Winter Olympics for about 90 seconds

When I heard about TV Forum. My life would never be the same again as I would talk about TV Pres to my family.