Newsreader screw ups

[raccoonradio]

Yeah it happens,nobody's perfect. Earlier today a WBZ newsreader talked about some campaigning for Romney done up in New Hampshire with "Senator John McCain of New Hampshire". Oops, Arizona (corrected a moment later). Someone on a political messageboard said today that the WRKO newsreader (Metro-Shadow news) referred to the Dem Senate
nominee as "Elizabeth Brown".

Years ago another contracted-out RKO newsreader said that basketball great Dennis Rodman was dead. No they meant
Dennis Johnson. They didn't catch the error.

 

[DToTheJ]

In other sports news, the Titans beat the Patriots 59-0... :

 

[BostonRandy]

It happens all the time in multiple platforms. At Yankee Stadium this past weekend, the jumbotron text read that Derek Jeter had passed Willie Mays for 10th place on the all-time MLB hits list. Jeter was tied with Mays for 11th and passed him to take the spot on his own. ESPN, in its wisdom and with voluminous stat and fact-checkers, repeated it on its Sportscenter broadcasts and its "Bottom Line" throughout the evening.

 

[raccoonradio]

Maine TV newscaster was hearing from her producer that the Celtics playoff game had ended in a tie.

And of course bloopers of the past:
"President Hoobert Heever"
"according to a White Horse Souse"
(etc...pardon my blooper) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzLmvqSlFIY

Pat Whitley has said he screwed up in reading ad copy as "just heat, and eat". It came out as
"eat and heave".

 

[Uncle Kaimbridge]

Maine TV newscaster was hearing from her producer that the Celtics playoff game had ended in a tie.

And of course bloopers of the past:
"President Hoobert Heever"
"according to a White Horse Souse"

My favorite (8pm TOH news, recognized female anchor, don’t remember who...maybe Ann Compton?): “Now, this ABC News Update——The 2008 (2004?) Presidential Erection”!