Saudi Arabia anchor trips on air

By NewscastStudio October 2, 2013

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There’s little doubt that the popular “walk and talk” technique is very popular in TV news — not just in the field, but in the studio.

One Al Arabiya anchor was presenting a report, just as her counterparts all over the world do, in front of a giant video wall and started walking to the next section of the wall when she tripped and fell to the studio floor.

The channel cut away from the shot to a full screen graphic shortly after she fell.