From Newsgroup: uk.media.tv.misc
In the early 2000s, I was watching terrestrial TV late on Christmas
night, it might have been past midnight. I'm pretty sure it was Channel
5.
There was a really bizarre hot-mic incident, it lasted about 10 minutes.
There was nobody on screen, you could only hear a male voice and only
one side of the conversation. The man had clearly been told there was
some major newsworthy event happening (maybe a riot or something), and
that he may have to interrupt programming with an announcement. He was
was getting really frustrated he wasn't getting any more details and
that he couldn't get confirmation.
A few minutes later he must have realized, and it went away. I kept
watching, but there was no interruption.
Does anybody else remember it or know what happened? I was reminded of
it recently but can't find anything about it online.
It always stuck with me, you didn't used to see such crazy mistakes on terrestrial TV, and he was clearly angry and used some really bad
language (I dont remember what exactly, but I remember thinking ofcom is
going to fine them or something).
Tavis.
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