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Radio News: Radio announcers go crazy, and go off
May 01, 2016 10:13 pm
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A Nashville sports reporter was fired for delivering a Prince-themed sports report hours after the musician’s death. Fox affiliate WZTV let him go after ten years, calling his April 21 report "insensitive." In another radio miscue, a child brought to a studio for Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day on April 28, took out National Public Radio's West Coast broadcast of "Morning Edition." The child took the feed off the air for one minute and 13 seconds. Gawker got an internal email from NPR:
"This error was caused by the head of Engineering Department. As part of Take our Daughters to work day studio 42 demonstration. One of our junior journalists was somehow able to press the exact sequence, and perfectly timed live insert panel to insert studio 42 into the stream 1. I kid you not. Although labor laws prevent me from actually hiring the kid (cause he does have a future-but I gave him my card) This resulted in studio 42 being inserted into the stream, causing a lengthy impairment."
A Nashville sports reporter was fired for delivering a Prince-themed sports report hours after the musician’s death. Fox affiliate WZTV let him go after ten years, calling his April 21 report "insensitive." In another radio miscue, a child brought to a studio for Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day on April 28, took out National Public Radio's West Coast broadcast of "Morning Edition." The child took the feed off the air for one minute and 13 seconds. Gawker got an internal email from NPR:
"This error was caused by the head of Engineering Department. As part of Take our Daughters to work day studio 42 demonstration. One of our junior journalists was somehow able to press the exact sequence, and perfectly timed live insert panel to insert studio 42 into the stream 1. I kid you not. Although labor laws prevent me from actually hiring the kid (cause he does have a future-but I gave him my card) This resulted in studio 42 being inserted into the stream, causing a lengthy impairment."