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Meltdown during last night's 11 PM NBC 10 newscast


JULIUS

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There was a complete meltdown during the 11 PM WCAU NBC10 newscast last night. The first segment appeared to be fine but after that, there was a bunch of commercials and no news for the rest of the half hour. There was a weather segment after the first series of commercials and then after the weather, there was more commercials for the rest of the half hour , but that's it. Does anyone know what happened and why the newscast was messed up? Did anyone see this and was there any problems with the 6 PM news last night?

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I *love* the comments on their Facebook page -- viewers saying things like "are you aware you've been in commercials for 10 minutes?!?!?!?!?!?!" and "people should be fired" over the equipment meltdown. Really? I'm positive nobody at the station had to see a comment on Facebook to figure out there were issues.

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It goes back to the 90s... I was in Chicago when a storm came through and wreaked havoc with WMAQ's newscast. Though rather than commercials upon commercials, they couldn't switch out of the studio, so it was, as Carol Marin and Ron Magers said (essentially): Enjoy the "Non-Stop News" - you're about to get a lot of commercials. Instead, viewers got a long close with credits, then a couple of news promos and I believe a couple of minutes of the "A whole new NBC" musical bed before the 6:30 program (Married with Children?) started. I have it somewhere on tape (I was huddled under the stands at Wrigley during the storm - the game started very late - I think I only saw an inning before having to head back downtown to beat the 10pm closing of the parking garage I was using...).

 

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