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Not For Broadcast Network Material Accidentally Broadcast

This morning on FOX 61 in Hartford. Instead of Wendy Williams coming on at 10AM, color bars with a tone came on. There were words on the color bars including the words 720p. That lasted about a minute. Then the live Catholic Mass from their in-market CW sister station WCCT/20 came on for about 2 mins. Then the same color bars came on. Finally at 10:05AM a stale rerun of Wendy came. She was wearing a blue dress. How did I know it was a stale rerun? The set wasn't decorated for Christmas. I left the room for a minute or so and when I came back a different (and correct) episode of Wendy was on and she was in a silver dress.
 
I've mentioned this elsewhere, although I don't know if it was at this forum or somewhere else.
My favorite TV movie is Deadman's Curve, from 1978, starring Richard Hatch and Bruce Davison as Jan Berry and Dean Torrence, and what happened to Jan & Dean after Jan's devastating car accident. Jan & Dean began touring again after the movie aired, and so the movie played a lot in syndication in the 1980s. We had just gotten cable and I could tell where Jan & Dean were touring because the local channels were passing the movie back and forth among themselves. I know it aired in Cincinnati and Dayton when the local affiliates still showed their own daytime and overnight programming, plus I think it may have aired on WGN (Chicago), WOR (New York) and WTBS (Atlanta), when they also still showed their own markets' programming.
It was toward the end of one of the showings, after Jan & Dean return to performing but Jan is clearly severely disabled, that I heard in the background, behind the TV characters' conversation, one man said something to another man, and the second guy answered, "Wait, I want to see what happens to this guy" (meaning Jan).
 
I don't know if this fits in here but the 1979 TV movie "Death of Ocean View Park". The movie was filmed in Norfolk, Virginia but when the movie aired on ABC there were a number of scenes that it made Norfolk close by to DC and Baltimore. One scene had some woman making a remark that she was planning a bike trip to Baltimore to catch an Orioles game and be home that night just in time for supper. Ah Norfolk is 200 miles from Baltimore. That would be an all day thing !! In another scene when the park blows up a girl running is clearly seen wearing a WPGC t-shirt. WPGC is a DC radio station. You can't get them in Norfolk. When the movie was in syndication all of the DC and Baltimore references were cut and were replaced with Virginia Beach which IS close to Norfolk and that girl was now wearing a WGH t-shirt since WGH is in the area.
 
hamster said:
I don't know if this fits in here but the 1979 TV movie "Death of Ocean View Park". The movie was filmed in Norfolk, Virginia but when the movie aired on ABC there were a number of scenes that it made Norfolk close by to DC and Baltimore. One scene had some woman making a remark that she was planning a bike trip to Baltimore to catch an Orioles game and be home that night just in time for supper. Ah Norfolk is 200 miles from Baltimore. That would be an all day thing !! In another scene when the park blows up a girl running is clearly seen wearing a WPGC t-shirt. WPGC is a DC radio station. You can't get them in Norfolk. When the movie was in syndication all of the DC and Baltimore references were cut and were replaced with Virginia Beach which IS close to Norfolk and that girl was now wearing a WGH t-shirt since WGH is in the area.
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This is similar to watching chase scenes if you're a person who knows the street layout of where it was filmed. For example, if you're from San Francisco, it's difficult to watch the famous chase scene in Bullitt because you'll see Steve McQueen speeding down some steep street on Russian Hill, round the corner, and be 3 miles away near Twin Peaks.

I was watching an episode of Sons of Anarchy recently, which is set in the Lodi-like fictional town of "Charming," which is supposed to be near Stockton in the mid San Joaquin Valley. The gang was fighting another gang right in front of the landmark city hall in the town I grew up in ...in suburban Los Angeles.

These are reminders that TV dramas are often not realistic, and don't have to be. I suspect Sons used that old LA building to film in front of because it LOOKED like it should be in a small SJ valley farming town, and it only required a short commute from their studios...in Burbank or wherever.
 
Last year, the Master Control operator on duty at my local CBS affiliate fell asleep during a football game and missed rolling both halftime station breaks. During sports broadcasts CBS puts up a graphic during local breaks indicating which game is being broadcast. Since the operator was asleep, that graphic went to air instead of local content.
 
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I forgot one. In the late 80s Denver's KUSA had their weatherman Bill Custer doing the weather in KUSA's backyard. At the time KUSA was located on some street right across from an Arby's plus the city buses used that street a lot. One day Bill was doing the weather and a guy stepped off the bus. The bus pulled away and the guy urinated in the street behind Bill Custer and smiled to KUSA. Until KUSA moved years later they never did the backyard weather again.
 
hamster said:
I forgot one. In the late 80s Denver's KUSA had their weatherman Bill Custer doing the weather in KUSA's backyard. At the time KUSA was located on some street right across from an Arby's plus the city buses used that street a lot. One day Bill was doing the weather and a guy stepped off the bus. The bus pulled away and the guy urinated in the street behind Bill Custer and smiled to KUSA. Until KUSA moved years later they never did the backyard weather again.
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If Denver is like San Francisco, you will see people urinate in the streets at any time of day or night, and - sadly - worse, including defecation, and totally brazen out in the open drug sales and drug use. And I don't mean marijuana.

But my favorite clip - was reporter Dan Noyes of KGO-TV doing a live story about a decade ago, while union strikers were taunting him. Finally, he drops his mic, and chases one of the demonstrators down the street. Sadly, the actual clip of the chase has been removed from You Tube - probably by KGO-TV, but I found this amusing short article about it:

http://sfist.com/2007/05/02/dan_noyes_original_gangsta.php
 
LKellerIII said:
If Denver is like San Francisco, you will see people urinate in the streets at any time of day or night, and - sadly - worse, including defecation, and totally brazen out in the open drug sales and drug use. And I don't mean marijuana.

But my favorite clip - was reporter Dan Noyes of KGO-TV doing a live story about a decade ago, while union strikers were taunting him. Finally, he drops his mic, and chases one of the demonstrators down the street. Sadly, the actual clip of the chase has been removed from You Tube - probably by KGO-TV, but I found this amusing short article about it:

http://sfist.com/2007/05/02/dan_noyes_original_gangsta.php
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The clip of Custer and KUSA was removed as well by KUSA like when one of their anchors was bitten by a dog on live TV KUSA took it off You Tube too. That is what's funny about Denver TV and radio. They don't touch the good but bad they will yank it.
Lots of KMGH on You Tube BUT KMGH channel 7 had an issue with The John Elway Show they aired back in 1988. John is seen drinking beer and getting drunk ( Elway is well known as a boozer ) and guys coming on the set and then the fights, The Broncos played the Buffalo Bills and out comes a man dressed as a buffalo and the Broncos fans have rubber sticks and SWAT. Tapes of this still exist but good luck in putting them on You Tube as they WILL be yanked by KMGH.
 
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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.
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I'd guess that AT&T mistakenly patched in the Packers-Vikings game to WCAU, since in those days, CBS didn't usually join a late running early game. Or maybe it was CBS's doing.

I saw it happen once on NBC, when someone accidentally switched to the Colts-Chargers game during the Seahawks-Bears game. In 1987, i think.
 
The only thing I can think of is when KCNC 4 (Then an NBC O&O) accidentally broadcast a few seconds of aCBS late game featuring the Rams (Before they moved to St. Louis & back) because of technical difficulties in carrying the Broncos game (Which was at a sold out Mile High Stadium at the same time)

This was before live content was delivered via satellite & I think (If I remember right) they lost feed from NBC even though NBC kept going as the game itself did

(Because the Brncos game was sold out, KMGH (Then the CBS affiliate) was not allowed to carry ANY CBS late game (Let alone the one I mentioned) as per NFL regulations (which still exist today)
 
country103 said:
nothing for at least 120 dayseven the promo feed from ESPN. Tim heard the same thing on WTIG in Massillon on a different date. ESPN sends 30-second show promos....one after another after another (etc.)...and you hear things like: "....3, 2, 1...(pause...then promo beings)". And, Tim heard it run that way on WKNR and WTIG for about 10 minutes (well, he gave up listening after 10 minutes! :D :D :D).
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And then there are the NON-ABC affiliates who carry MNF on ESPN where promos for ABC shows are often aired on BOTH ESPN & the MNF affiliate if it's not caught by the latter.....
 
zumahans said:
CBS radio still uses those tones: they are called Net Alerts.
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Yeah but their music packages have long since been modernized. If you listen to CBS News Radio nowadays, the lead-in music after the tone sounds much more like something you'd hear on a contemporary station than anything.....
 
I've mentioned this once before, but one time the audio of the Jets-Bengals game leaked into the Chargers-Steelers game during the 82 playoffs.
 
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