I apologize for not being able to get the link to work...
Happened on Cable Vision also.
Tom Ridge, another RINO clown, the commercials were better use of the time then having this fraud on.
Also happened here - we have Comcast. A commercial cut him (Ridge) off as soon as he started to explain
I suspect that it is innocent. At weekends, the second team (taxi squad) of technicians is running the show. At Holiday weekends, it is often the third team (those on IR).
No, they stand strong for making money.
Somebody programmed the commercial breaks wrong, and it’s impossible to know if it was intentional or not.
It's Saturday. It's a holiday weekend. Fox News has given their senior support staff, senior anchors and APPARENTLY their senior engineering staff the weekend off. So what you see is simply On The Job Training for Fox News Engineers.
But of course you need to keep in mind that quote by the famous Intel founder Andy Grove: "Only the paranoid survive". And the equally valid but anonymous (AFAIK) quote: "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean people aren't really out to get me".
Happened here too on Time Warner Cable.
This is because everybody who is anybody on TV is on the beach at Waikiki or Nassau at this moment. Glitches are going to occur, so don't read anything sinister into it.
That being said, about a year ago Freepers were commenting on the three seconds-or-so freeze-ups on the Fox shows.....although a little less frequently than before. I suppose most people know the problem still continues. Maybe this has something to do with the satellite feed or something. If anyone knows what THIS particular problem is caused by, please let us know. Thanks,
Leni
The weekend crews (especially on a holiday weekend) tend to be less experienced and you find a lot more mistakes. That may or may not explain what happened.
Ridge is flogging his book.
it could have been a hard break,
FNC weekend crew are generally idiots in front and behind the camera.
Maybe someone in the control room doesn’t agree with Fox’s stand.
Kinda like having the Detroit Lions play for the Steelers in last year's Super Bowl.
All TV stations/networks are now run by automation systems and sometimes those systems go absolutely stupid and start rolling stuff for no reason.
This sounds to me like one of the two scenarios...
1. The automation went haywire either through technical difficulties or being misprogramed by the operator. Most likely scenario, they forgot to put in a manual start for that break and when the countdown on the "dummy time" (they have to put in dummy times when generating automation runs for live shows in order to get the in and out times of the shows to jive with the official log) hit zero it rolled. In that situation the operator generally lets the first spot blow by and put a manual stop on the end-it is "less noticible" to the audience then dumping out of a commercial and then recovers the system to get it back on track.
2. They took down the automation to repair something and when they were going back to it the operator had the wrong line called up when he/she restarted the system.
3. The "Pepsi Syndrome"-The operator accidentally dropped something on the switcher or the "paddle" and it hit the initiate button. It is a very rare occurrence but it does happen.
As to the anchor "not noticing" that is an easy explanation. They do not route the on air feed into the studio, only the output of the production control room. They do not watch the commercials while in the breaks, they either are seeing black (nothing) or something on preview that they need to see (like a live feed of a fire or something).
In all of these events the person who is sitting in their BOC has to write the incident up and is more then likely gonna get his or her butt kicked on Tuesday.
Even with two hearing aids, Tom Ridge is still politically deaf.
At Homeland Security(I hate that name—why isn’t it National Security? A “homeland” implies colonies somewhere else) we have had three losers in leadership:
Tom “What?” Ridge
Michael “What Border?” Skeletor Chertoff
Janet “Every Right winger is a Terrorist” Napolitano.
God help us!
What was Ridge’s explanation of the controversy and did you get to see it in the interview?
My mom hasd asked this very same question i nhte past- just hwen important topics are being discussed, or right after liberals stop long enough for a republican to say soemthing, the voice cuts out, or the picture goes off, or htere’s some ‘technical problem’ goign on- Not sure if there’s anythign to it, but it’s odd though that this keeps happening- if it gets too bad- we’ll write fox and ask what’s goign on
But I thought Geico pulled their ads from fox because of Glen Beck?