Not For Broadcast Network Material Accidentally Broadcast

[71dude]

OK -- (does this fit this thread?) who remembers when NBC (bashing NBC again) ran THE WRONG PART of the famous miniseries "the holocaust"?! I think it was Tuesday night in March, 1978 -- they were supposed to be running part two, and instead, for 19 minutes, part THREE was running! I was watching that night - our family shook our heads, saying -- "uh, they're running the wrong segment!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktmt9UrPPsE

 

[azumanga]

who remembers when NBC (bashing NBC again) ran THE WRONG PART of the famous miniseries "the holocaust"?! I think it was Tuesday night in March, 1978 -- they were supposed to be running part two, and instead, for 19 minutes, part THREE was running! I was watching that night - our family shook our heads, saying -- "uh, they're running the wrong segment!"

I thought this happened with another NBC miniseries, "Loose Change"? See:

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,123227.0.html

(EDIT: After rereading the above thread, it apparently happened to both.)

 

[firepoint525]

I remember watching The Price is Right once, this was years ago, when they came out of a commercial break, and repeated a segment that they had just aired. So they ran about 10 minutes or so behind for most of the hour, then, all of a sudden, without any warning, they just skipped back up to where they should have been at that point in the show. In other words, they just suddenly skipped a segment. Since this happened on daytime TV, I'm guessing that very few of you would remember it.

 

[Ultimajock]

who remembers when NBC (bashing NBC again) ran THE WRONG PART of the famous miniseries "the holocaust"?! I think it was Tuesday night in March, 1978 -- they were supposed to be running part two, and instead, for 19 minutes, part THREE was running! I was watching that night - our family shook our heads, saying -- "uh, they're running the wrong segment!"

I thought this happened with another NBC miniseries, "Loose Change"? See:

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,123227.0.html

(EDIT: After rereading the above thread, it apparently happened to both.)

...when NBC ran the special 33-1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee on 14 April 1969, one of the coasts (dunno which one) got the segments out-of-proper-sequence...

 

[rickradio]

This is not really a slip up, but the local ABC affiliate here in Milwaukee used to show the countdown to WNT after their 5:00 news. They had a video wall as part of the news set.. When their news ended, they cut to a wideshot of the desk and slowly pulled in in the video wall with the countdown

Actually, that sounds pretty slick and original to me. I'm picturing it in my head, and whoever came up with that had a really good idea, I think. Excellent way for a local station to handoff to the network.

 

[The King Bee]

Once in a great while, if the master control operator was distracted or ABC didn't give the full minimum :30 of silence and black at 3:57:27 PM ET after the net ID signalling the end of "General Hospital," snippets of the ABC Private Affiliate Feed would air. This consisted of telescoped versions of future prime-time programs, break timing sheets for shows, promos and the like. This was followed at 5:00 PM ET by the ABC (News) Daily Electronic Feed. Both feeds began with aural and visual "NOT FOR LIVE BROADCAST" warnings.

ABC-DEF was a seven day a week service to affiliates sending down news packages, soundbites, weather graphics, sports and features for insertion into local newscasts. Weekend feed times varied, depending on the college football run times.

 

[flytrap]

A number of years ago WLBT in Jackson, MS was doing a story about a local girl who was appearing nude in Playboy. Apparently someone in production was preparing the nude pictures for broadcast by placing a black bar over the naughty bits. Someone in master control wanting to get a look on one of his monitors pushed the wrong button which resulted in live boobies being broadcast during the afternoon soap operas. oops

I also saw an episode or "Rosanne" playing in fast reverse on WJTV in Jackson. someone was rewinding the tape. I've also seen cameras being focused and hair and neckties being straighten on WLBT right before the news where the commercials are supposed to go.

 

[LKellerIII]

A number of years ago WLBT in Jackson, MS was doing a story about a local girl who was appearing nude in Playboy. Apparently someone in production was preparing the nude pictures for broadcast by placing a black bar over the naughty bits. Someone in master control wanting to get a look on one of his monitors pushed the wrong button which resulted in live boobies being broadcast during the afternoon soap operas. oops

OH NO!!!!! Naked female breasts broadcast on commercial television. Arrrrgh! My eyes are burning...make it stop!!!

Sorry, nothing about your post, but I'm constantly reminded what a sick puritanical country this is.

 

[hipman2]

This one happened during CBS's Saturday morning schedule.

It was January 28, 1978. From 12:30pm-1pm, CBS affilliate KFMB aired Space Academy as normally scheduled.
But a weird thing happened at about 12:40pm. Some kind of wild feed began to creep in and there were horizontal bars coming in brighter with a high pitched squeal until a minute or two later when the CBS feed was switched to an advance wild feed of a CBS prime time program, One Day at a Time, and part of the scene featured Valerie Bertinelli, a male roomate, and some kind of blanket being placed perpendicularly on top of a queen or king size bed in a motel room. I'm not kidding about this. After another minute, KFMB's engineers cut it off and put on some kind of public affairs kid message until they got the regular CBS feed back on track, then continued with Space Academy.

Needless to say, that was really wild.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

It was January 28, 1978. From 12:30pm-1pm, CBS affilliate KFMB aired Space Academy as normally scheduled.

Was the program the usual left coast feed originating at TV City, and did
KFMB-TV get CBS via a Telco line or a microwave feed from El Lay? This
might help to explain where the goof came from. Or maybe not.

 

[crainbebo]

Moving this up - I was treated this evening to a Fox network test pattern on our local Fox station (KCYU) during their Modern Family reruns. It has now aired THREE times, interrupting the show for several minutes. Anybody home tonight at Fox 41?

 

[danderson6500]

11/13/1983: WCAU-TV in Philadelphia had an NFL doubleheader, Eagles-Bears followed by Cowboys-Chargers. After the Eagles game ended CBS went to a station break. Channel 10 came out of the break to join . . . Packers-Vikings, which was late in the 4th quarter. :-[ Somebody must have called CBS Control pretty quick!

This involved a CBS O&O and happened when all shows went out over AT&T Long Lines. CBS quickly patched in the Cowboys game on the line to Philly.

That's happened to me before, one time NBC did that when someone made a mistake and started showing the Seahawks-Patriots game when we were supposed to see Dolphins-Jets.

 

[hamster]

Maybe this fits in here but back in the Fall of 1982 a group of us went to UVA Hospital in Charlottesville, VA. One of the patients we visited had a TV and it was tuned to WXEX channel 8 out of Richmond. I don't know if this was intentional or not but at the beginning of Eyewitness News I and everyone else in that room heard crystal clear "...F*** This S**T......F*** YOU !!" while the credits were rolling. At first I had thought it was from one of us but it didn't take very long to figure out it came from WXEX.

 

[rnigma1]

NBC once cancelled a couple of prime-time shows on very short notice (this would have been during the "Supertrain" era when their shows were dying like flies left and right) and substitued a movie in their place. (It was the perfectly horrible "Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers" with Sally Kellerman, Alan Arkin, and a young pre-"One Day at a Time" Mackenzie Phillips.)

Originally titled "Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins."

I do recall, back in the film-chain days, countdowns, leaders and the "Place Commercial Here" notations being aired by mistake.

One slip-up that stands out in my memory was on NBC sometime in the early 80s, and it was time for their newsbreak. The graphic comes up with the CGI Statue of Liberty and the announcer says "and now, NBC News Update, with Jennifer MacLogan." Then they cut to her, holding a mirror in front of her face and brushing her hair. They stay on her about 5 seconds before bailing and rolling commercials.

 

[LKellerIII]

Given that this is an 8 page, 11 year subject, this may have been mentioned already. There have been a few instances of broadcast stations accidentally running hardcore porn over the air. The most recent was KRDO 13 in Colorado Springs, which ran porn instead of Good Morning America, for a few seconds in 2012.

 

[hamster]

Given that this is an 8 page, 11 year subject, this may have been mentioned already. There have been a few instances of broadcast stations accidentally running hardcore porn over the air. The most recent was KRDO 13 in Colorado Springs, which ran porn instead of Good Morning America, for a few seconds in 2012.

This happened in Denver on KTVD 20 back in 2002. I knew a guy who had worked there at the time but he wanted to get fired so he ran 25 minutes of gay porno in the middle of the day. Unfortunately the "porno" for about a half hour had a stand up comedian telling jokes while two of the porno actors were kissing each other in the audience and that is what aired....but at least they had their clothes on !!! It didn't work as he did not get fired and nobody called up KTVD to complain about it..

 

[danderson6500]

Once in a great while, if the master control operator was distracted or ABC didn't give the full minimum :30 of silence and black at 3:57:27 PM ET after the net ID signalling the end of "General Hospital," snippets of the ABC Private Affiliate Feed would air. This consisted of telescoped versions of future prime-time programs, break timing sheets for shows, promos and the like. This was followed at 5:00 PM ET by the ABC (News) Daily Electronic Feed. Both feeds began with aural and visual "NOT FOR LIVE BROADCAST" warnings.

ABC-DEF was a seven day a week service to affiliates sending down news packages, soundbites, weather graphics, sports and features for insertion into local newscasts. Weekend feed times varied, depending on the college football run times.

I remember seeing those(particularly the Daily Electronic Feed) on my big dish back in the day. They *always* aired after "General Hospital," or after football games and such.

 

[MarcB]

More recently, but still several years back the digi-net Antenna TV was running WKRP. The opening sequence played. The first segment played. Commercial break. Then rinse, lather, repeat. So to speak. In other words the opening sequence and the same first segment. I remember corresponding with Antenna TV on Facebook that night and truthfully I don't know who was running their Facebook page on a Sunday Night, but they were trying to blame it on WTIC-TV, which is the local Antenna TV affiliate.

And I mentioned on the syndication board a couple weeks ago I was watching Daily Mail TV on WTIC-TV (not by choice) and they had the opening sequence, the first segment of the show, then commercials. And when the commercial break ended they aired the opening sequence again followed by the start of the first segment again. Then the screen blipped and the second segment of the show began in progress.

I also mentioned this too on another board here. I was watching The Chew on WTNH Channel 8 New Haven, Connecticut. A promo for Judge Judy came on (no big deal since WTNH airs Judge Judy). Then the voice-over and on-screen schedule "This Afternoon on FOX Providence". Via an LMA FOX Providence is a sister station to WTNH. Master Control for New Haven's WTNH/WCTX, Providence's WPRI/WNAC, and Springfield's WWLP is based at WWLP in Chicopee, Mass. All of them are NEXSTAR stations (previously LIN TV). It was LIN TV who built WWLP's new facility in Chicopee and centralized the master control there. I don't know if any other stations that were owned by LIN TV are based there or not.

 

[MarcB]

One more I just remembered. I don't know what airs on the CBS national feed after the conclusion of Prime-time at 11PM, but many times when I tune in just before the start of the 11PM News on Merideth's WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut the credits of the CBS Prime-time show are rolling. Then some other thing from CBS can be seen before it quickly gets cut off and the opening Sequence of Channel 3 Eyewitness News at 11 starts.

 

[crainbebo]

Maybe a promo? A PSA?
Anyways, saw KVEW/42 Kennewick's ID on KAPP Yakima earlier today. And then two hours later on KAPP, a promo for tickets to a Keith Urban concert that already occurred...in AUGUST! See, this is what happens folks when you throw everything to KXLY and let them have at it. Sad!