Sounding the Alarm

You understand that the incident that was originally labeled “The Most Excellent Technical Meltdown in Live Television News History” must be absolutely bonkers. What could possibly have been that awful? The answer is a whopping 19 minutes of live video with zero audio, according to Scott Jones of YouTube. Quiet, that’s right! You see, on the WGN-Channel 9 evening news, the crew made a mistake and silenced all but one reporter. Even worse, it took the crew almost 20 minutes to figure out how to fix it! On whiteboards like the one above, the anchors during that period scrawled hilarious remarks to the audience.