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CBS has a hitch in their gitalong

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vchimpanzee

That's what a classic country DJ said. He was obviously hearing the interruptions and other glitches in the CBS News broadcast the other day, including whoever was talking sounding like Max Headroom.

The DJ was confident the problem would be fixed soon.
 
vchimpanzee said:
That's what a classic country DJ said. He was obviously hearing the interruptions and other glitches in the CBS News broadcast the other day, including whoever was talking sounding like Max Headroom.

The DJ was confident the problem would be fixed soon.
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Heard an interesting technical problem this morning, on the World News Roundup...

Orlando based correspondent Peter King, who for the last 18 months has been the primary fill-in for Frank Settipani and Steve Kathan, has been anchoring for Kathan this week, presumably from Orlando.

After package from TV reporter Margaret Brennan played about 3:30 into the newscast, we got about 15 seconds of dead-air. CBS quickly went to the 4 minute commercial break. After the commercial ended, the newscast resumed with "This is Dave Barrett..." They had quickly grabbed Dave Barrett (who does the bottom of the hour AM drive newscasts), handed him a script, and got him on the air. Pretty quick response considering they had 75 seconds or so to do it.

Must have been a communications failure from whatever studio Peter King works from in Orlando. I guess that's a risk you run when your anchor is not coming from a main broadcast center...
 
I guess we'll end up wandering off topic.

The weatherman on WBTV Charlotte, who was there about 30 years from around the time they signed on, had lots of health problems his last few years. He was drawing the fronts, high and low pressures and precipitation on the maps at the time. Can you believe anyone ever had to do that? And they a crew to clean the map because these markers weren't easy to clean.

Anyway, one day at noon he was doing that and he was rushing to finish and said something like "We'd better go to news." The news anchor was already reading when they switched to him. It was some sort of health problem that put him in the hospital briefly. He was 61 when he retired and looked much older. He died a few years later.
 
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