[Stooky Bill]

Back in analogue days, on bbc1, when children in need was doing the regional opt outs, I presume if a regional couldn't opt out, due to a fault, then viewers in that region saw bbc south east?

That was still the case post analogue too, but with the London region rather than South East of course

[robertclark125]

I've got a link from It'll be alright on the night 2, broadcast in 1979, for you all to enjoy. Whether this is a breakdown, is open to debate, but what happened, and the set up, is enough to give a producer a nervous breakdown! The link starts off at the exact moment. What basically happened was.....

Actually, I'll let Dennis Norden explain!

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This video can only be viewed on YouTube.

[Neil Jones]

Wouldn't say it was a "breakdown" as such,  its more of a logistical nightmare.  Another YouTube video suggests all that faffing around was for ITV's World of Sport in 1978.

And apparently the "deal" for Alright on the Night was "a stitch-up", as they managed to get the interview and it went on to open World of Sport:
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[Bennyboy84]

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"Nothing is going to stop this wedding..."

I think BBC Breakfast might!

Very much in the style of the Breaking News error they had on BBC News a couple of years ago. A classic of the genre!

Is that the one where everything was Breaking News as it kept repeating that bumper and music over and over and it kept showing Huw Edwards in the studio wondering what's going on?

[Bennyboy84]

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This must have been a hell of a night for broadcasters who had to deal with this!

[Yorksman]

Channel 5 had a sound problem during the Boxing tonight:
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[octothorpe]

Bit of a minor cock-up on the News Channel tonight. At 10:38pm, as the simulcast of the News at Ten ended, the titles for The Papers began to play, but the sound was of the opening for BBC London News. It was corrected in a few seconds, but thought worth mentioning (it certainly confused an elderly relative I was watching it with, who thought that the summary of the papers was London news and, us both living well over 200 miles away, afforded it little relevance, and, thus, attention!).

[Neil Jones]

The days when the local ITV company knew there could be a problem with TV reception and try to cut off any complaints:
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[Bennyboy84]

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This video can only be viewed on YouTube.

BT Sport makes an appearance again. BT Tower colour bars appeared briefly at the end of WWE Monday Night RAW this week (The same colour bars which appeared at the end of Gogglebox on C4 during the aftermath of the Red Bee incident)

[Ballinagrappa]

The days when the local ITV company knew there could be a problem with TV reception and try to cut off any complaints:
www.youtube.com 

I remember Central also used to put an aston on screen saying the same thing during programmes when the weather caused picture problems.