Tonight during “NBC Nightly News” live on location a glitch caused the Today Show bug to appear on top of the Nightly News graphics. The error was quickly fixed, but this shows what can happen when you broadcast live on location.
Picture courtesy: Ntropolis
One must wonder how that happened, and if the broadcast was being produced fully back in New York or partly on location. Also during the newscast, Brian Williams’ microphone experienced technical problems.
Thank you for clearing that up Mark. As I understand it all the control rooms at NBC are hot swappable so they have access to everything.
This was a studio error. NBC Nightly News is broadcast and entirely controlled by 30 Rock Studios and someone had the wrong graphic up in the Pinnacle character generator and/or the TD took the wrong graphic.
I personally know the presumed parties and they’re very, very professional. This is not intentional and it is likely that someone changed something while the correct graphic was on the air, or just as it was going to air. At 30 Rock, they have access to all news graphics with the all Pinnacle systems, so someone may have sent something to air that they only intended to preview.
Along those lines, why does NBC News show the MSNBC bug occasionally instead of the NBC bug?