15-01-2024, 10:20 AM
(14-01-2024, 10:24 PM)Nobby Wrote: The most recent example of a continuity announcer not being able to handle a break in transmission during Sunday Live this morning.
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It seems to have been caused by a snake getting in to the programme gallery. The continuity announcer probably wouldn't have even been in the same building but I suppose if she suffered from snakeaphbia then her ability to read coherently from the Radio Times may have been inhibited.
I think the snake in the gallery and the breakdown are unrelated - those bars are what you get when the switch at BT Tower disconnects. A classic case of the circuit not being booked for long enough and nobody having checked it beforehand. Looking back on iPlayer (which still includes the fault), it happened at exactly 1100, when I'd imagine they'd have wanted it to finish at 1200.