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ESPN: Chris Bermans "Casey Kasem" moment..

Well you can't call it the "dead mic story" since his mic
was live...

...which brings up the ancient Broadcasting 101 teaching
that you should treat every mic as if it was live, or in
more recent times that anything you say in the studio
is probably being recorded somewhere. ;)
 
ixnay said:
Why is this called a "Casey Kasem" moment? ???
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...assuming you asked the question in earnestness, Casey Kasem pulled much the same fly-act during an early '80s taping of "American Top 40." http://www.negativland.com/audiogadgets.html contains a couple of Negativland tracks, "The Forbidden Single," into which it was incorporated. http://youtube.com/watch?v=GpVuxgSxFFE has Jessica Savitch doing the same thing, and a silent clip of her going tapioca at KYW-TV Philadelphia matched up with audio of "Sabre Dance" was distributed around the country amongst tech types just before she went to NBC...
 
Please understand..any of us whov'e been near a mic had it...came close to it...or thought about it.

These references are for fun only. Kasem and Berman are two of the all time greats in their field....

And also human...

But its still different than the ESPN anchorette who did it in public...
 
Berman isn't a polished slick announcer type like Kasem. Berman can't really have a Kasem-moment because this is pretty much his (much-loved) personality to get riled up anyway.
 
Tim-In-Houston said:
A meltdown by the late Max Robinson, of ABC.

One of the commenters said this was from 1979 after the American Airlines flight 191 crash in Chicago. Robinson was apparently angry that Frank Reynolds was opening the newscast, with the crash story, instead of him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uAKSR03KMc
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...Robinson wasn't one of the better-liked people in Chicago newsrooms in the '70s and '80s. On the first night of his joining the local staff of NBC's WMAQ-TV/5, he called the news unit there "The Eyewitness News Team" on the air (and it looked deliberate, from what I recall of the incident). "Eyewitness News" was, of course, what ABC's WLS-TV/7 called *its* local news unit...
 
If anybody wants to know how to perform the greatest meltdown in television history (not really) and what the news REALLY is (truth there, pal), find the Movie "Network". One phrase: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!"
 
...naah, that's not even Howard Beale's greatest meltdown in that movie (his "eulogy" for Mr. Ruddy is). The greatest meltdown is Arthur Kirkland's "opening statement" in ...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ("YOU'RE out of order!!")...of course, it's not on TV, but if the case were tried today it would be ;-) ...
 
Ultimajock said:
...naah, that's not even Howard Beale's greatest meltdown in that movie (his "eulogy" for Mr. Ruddy is).
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Oh yeah, I agree. That's the most famous line in the movie which everybody'll remember the movie. I love Howard's first rant when he's talking about the whole industry being BS!

The greatest meltdown is Arthur Kirkland's "opening statement" in ...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ("YOU'RE out of order!!")...of course, it's not on TV, but if the case were tried today it would be ;-) ...
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A most memorable meltdown indeed, and copied quite greatly. I've never seen the movie fully, but I know that scene.

Speaking of copied: Anybody see JG Wentworth commercials (at least I think it's their commercial)? There's one in particular where everybody starts yelling out the windows "It's my money, and I want it now!" Every time I see it, I just know the brains behind it ripped off that scene from Network!
 
FloydB said:
If anybody wants to know how to perform the greatest meltdown in television history (not really) and what the news REALLY is (truth there, pal), find the Movie "Network". One phrase: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!"
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It would get a 30-share for sure...
 
have heard YouTube's pulled the videos citing copyright claims...done @ ESPN so even though
they never aired, property of the network
 
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