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Local TV News Bloopers (Past or Recent) You Actually Saw "As They Happened"

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Tim from Springfield IL

I don't have better background info on the name of the interviewee or the feature story (let alone a YouTube clip), but during one of my local newscasts this past week (on WICS-20 Springfield, IL), the cell phone of an individual being interviewed at the Illinois State Fair went off while on-air during the newscast. But the interviewee appeared to continue unfazed.

However, that moment got me thinking. Have any of you actually witnessed on-air, "as they happened," an on-air local TV news blooper, past or present? Even one that even made one of Dick Clark's Bloopers show over the years (or the ilk)? Just curious.
 
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When I had Canadian satellite, I saw a car skidding on ice into the reporter's news van as he was doing a live shot for CKY-TV in Winnipeg a few years back, live as it happened. This later made one of the Dick Clark blooper specials.

I'd find a clip, but I had to wave through hundreds of videos featuring "CKY", the rock band.
 
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I thought I had seen the clip on YouTube (but couldn't locate it at the time of my original post).

However, WMBD-31 Peoria, IL (CBS) has had at least 2 instances of weathercaster bloopers involving the phrase "clipper system."

One of them from the early 90s actually made either Dick Clark's late '90s blooper specials or NBC's short-lived "TV Censored Bloopers '98." And I MIGHT have witnessed the early '90s "clipper system" on-air tongue-twister myself (while still growing up within range of that market).

Then around 2007 another WMBD weathercaster got tongue-tied on that phrase:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtp1DfigPno
 
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does the whole "Annie Stensrud might have been drunk....or maybe not" on KEYC CBS12 Mankato count? ;)

I watched that news that night and thought WTF did I just see. It was an awkward 4 minutes or so
http://mankatofreepress.com/local/x1818101307/Top-10-stories-No-7-TV-anchor-clip-goes-viral

and the news article recently that she claims she wasn't
http://www.kare11.com/news/article/...anchor-It-feels-good-to-finally-talk-about-it
 
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Perhaps not in the traditional sense but just last week Cory McCloskey of FoxPhoenix was on a live feed interviewing a bunch of 6-12 year old female dancers on the morning show. After asking each girl her name he then said "OK, let's turn around and show 'em your buns". He meant their hair which they all had up in a ballet dancers bun but there must have been some major stifling going on when they switched back to the studio.
 
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More stupid and ill-chosen comment than a blooper:

Tex Antoine and his infamous "Confucius" remark made during Eyewitness News (WABC) in 1976 .I blew a mouthful of coffee through my nose when I heard it.
 
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I've been way worse than you guys-only have remembered a ton of screwups with reports not working, reporters mics off, not getting weather radar on, etc. And most were on KCPQ!

-crainbebo
 
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I saw one of the all-time classics on WIIC-TV (now WPXI) in Pittsburgh.

News Anchor Beverly Byer, on live and having just been informed that Groucho Marx
had passed away moments before she was to read a story about his illness.

"Groucho Marx took a turn for the worse today. In fact, he died."
 
Re: Local TV News Bloopers (Past or Recent) You Actually Saw "As They Happened"

The classic April Fool's blooper was done in 1980 by the then-WNAC-7 in Boston: A fake live shot from Blue Hill (just south of Boston) reporting that it had erupted!

(This was around the time that geologists were expecting Mount St. Helens in Washington state to erupt, which it did some weeks later).
 
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Watching NBC one night in the early-mid '80s and a news update came on: "and now, Jennifer McLogan, NBC News." Cut to Jennifer, who is holding a mirror in front of her face and brushing her hair. Immediate cut to commercial.

I was around when this happened at WCTV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhapK5j4gBA
 
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I remember a moment on a Saturday night about three years ago, I believe it was on the night that KFOR started carrying its newscasts in HD, that Brian Brinkley (weekend sports anchor) was doing a story on the 10 p.m. newscast that night about the Oklahoma City Blazers CHL hockey team (which has since been dissolved, an IHL team, the Oklahoma City Barons, have since replaced them) playing an away game against the Bossier City Battle Wings. Unfortunately, Brian slipped up and called the city of the opposing team, "Bossier Shitty" before realizing his mistake and immediately correcting himself. Brian himself didn't make note of his blunder, and neither did the other anchors. Even more hilarious, the newscast replayed at 1:30 a.m. that night with the fleeting expletive intact!

I actually still have the faux pas on tape from that newscast replay, though I don't know how to convert a VHS tape to a digital format to make it uploadable to YouTube, but trust me, it was funny. And if you're wondering, Brian still has his job.
 
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rnigma said:
Watching NBC one night in the early-mid '80s and a news update came on: "and now, Jennifer McLogan, NBC News." Cut to Jennifer, who is holding a mirror in front of her face and brushing her hair. Immediate cut to commercial.

I was around when this happened at WCTV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhapK5j4gBA
Click to expand...

I friend of mine who lived in Erie, PA told me a story about an anchorman on WJET-TV being
two-knuckles deep in a nose pick when they came back from commercial. Don't recall the anchor's name though.
 
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tmanokc said:
I actually still have the faux pas on tape from that newscast replay, though I don't know how to convert a VHS tape to a digital format to make it uploadable to YouTube, but trust me, it was funny. And if you're wondering, Brian still has his job.
Click to expand...

You can use a video capture device to tape it, and later onto YouTube.

Going back to topic-I didn't see all of them "as it happened", but I was watching some of Connie Thompson's mistakes [KOMO 4, before 11AM news was moved to 4.2] during the 11am news, and seriously, she should be fired. Search "Bumbling Anchor" on YouTube and you will see her, years ago, making mistake after missed line after mistake.

-crainbebo
 
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Have you noticed the recent trend on local news that has anchor people standing to present some stories? About a year ago, I was watching an attractive young female anchor (don't remember her name) stumble and almost fall while delivering a story on KPIX in San Francisco. She lurched suddenly forward toward the camera, and her elbows jerked out to the side to prevent the fall. I think she was falling off her platform shoes. Lesson: always wear sensible shoes while on the air.
 
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A relatively benign blooper. Back in the late '80s, anchors on WPSD-TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY, were shown on camera grabbing a drink of water when they thought that they were not on camera. They explained it away moments later by saying something like, "hey, we get thirsty, too!" ;D
 
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This happened in Vancouver this week :)

Just because a word sounds adorable, that doesn't mean you should suggest doing it with the attractive weather girl. This news anchor learned that one the hard way after completely misunderstanding the word "canoodle" in the previous segment. His co-worker's reaction: priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PSqmlzaJM0Y
 
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