24-05-2023, 11:25 AM
(24-05-2023, 10:53 AM)Bennyboy84 Wrote: This is an odd one, the way in which the ident freezes and the sound fades out is pretty much what happens when a computer freezes. As for Cash in the Attic, I’m imagining someone either pressed the wrong button or the system was not reacting too well to having News 24 overriding the normal programming.
The freeze would perhaps be the automation (would've been Colossus at the time) stopping the clip at the end of the point it was supposed to no longer be on air, but the mixer hadn't cut to the next source. Can think of a few things that might have caused that, both human error and tech failure, but it'd just be speculation. Likewise, the sudden appearance of the next programme could be anything from the automation playing up to (as sometimes happens!) someone trying to fix a problem accidentally making it worse. News 24 would have been just another outside source, so nothing out of the ordinary about that.