Source: Daily_Mail
The broadcast view: A bad night for Liverpool ... an even worse one for ITV
ITV cock up.: Two minutes from the end of the game ITV accidentally cut to advert break and miss the winning goal. Steve Rider apologises 3 times.[LNB] ITV executive chairman Michael Grade called it 'an unprecedented technical error'. Error, that is. Not fault. You can safely assume someone got a coating for this because, while it was human error, it was definitely their fault.[LNB]If the gallery in the OB truck at Goodison Park had open talkback to Technicolour Network Services, to whom ITV outsource their transmission operation, it would have been filled with industrial language. The cause we now know was the premature triggering of an automated system for cueing commercial breaks. With the game deep into extra time, a recalculation of the programme's original running order must already have been made. If only the breaks had been switched from automatic to manual.[LNB] TODAY'S POLL Did you miss Everton's FA Cup winner because of ITV's impromptu ad break?[LNB] Yes No VOTE POLL RESULTS Close[LNB] All polls[LNB]Click to view yesterday's poll results[LNB] Working in a transmission room is TV without glamour. The inhabitants are tasked with keeping a schedule running seamlessly. Do a good job and no one notices. Mess up and you could take a programme off air. Or miss a crucial goal.[LNB]With communication with the ITV regions also needed and - with the news looming - ITN in Holborn, it is also a workplace which requires a steady nerve. The ensuing problems smacked of increasing chaos, capped by a sight of the usually hidden on-air clock ahead of the News at 10. A bad night for Liverpool. An even worse one for ITV.[LNB] The great ITV own goal: Cup howler 'inexcusable', says chairman Grade[LNB]FA demand explanation from ITV over broadcast blunder that saw millions miss Everton's dramatic winner against Liverpool [LNB]VIDEO: ITV broadcast 117 mins of turgid, goalless football then show adverts instead of Everton's glorious winner against rivals Liverpool[LNB]ITV are FA muppets - Sportsmail's roll of shame for Cup broadcaster[LNB]Alan Fraser's screen test: ITV's pathetic highlights ended in a triffick jam[LNB]JOIN THE DEBATE - Are ITV unfit to broadcast the Cup?[LNB][LNB] [LNB]
