NBC Technical Difficulties at the Orange Bowl January 1992
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2010
- Here is something you will probably never see on ESPN Classic. The NBC Control Room at the Orange Bowl caught fire (The rainy weather caused a leak in the room causing a short circuit). They switched over to the Japanese feed (Which is what you hear for a couple of moments when the video returns), and had shaken studio hosts Paul Maguire and Gayle Gardner attempt to call the game from the studio. Note the menacing live Voiceover announcing the technical difficulties at the 1:30 mark in this clip (That scared my then 8 Year old brother)! Luckily for NBC, the game had already been decided at that point.
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Here’s an excerpt from a New York Times article about the situation:
“For nearly 15 minutes during the fourth quarter of the Orange Bowl telecast, Gayle Gardner did the play-by-play from a studio in New York as Japanese television provided the picture.
According to an NBC spokesman, the trouble started when two of the three power cables supplied by the Orange Bowl burned out at the game site.
In New York, NBC, acting quickly, picked up the Japanese feed. NBC was without a picture for only 18 seconds. But there was no audio.
So Gardner and Paul Maguire took over from New York. There was an eerie silence as they called the action.
Gardner got the score wrong (20-0 instead of 22-0) and it sounded as if she called Gino Torretta Gina Torretta, but all things considered, things worked out OK until NBC got its own feed back by hot-wiring the main production truck to a nearby transformer.”
Stories like this are why I like watching technical difficulty videos.
Sometimes the tales that you get from reality are fantastically weird. An American Football game had transmission difficulties because a leak led to the control room catching fire! And such incidences only get known through word of mouth or 'word of mouth' through a messageboard online or the lucky person who recorded it live...
Another interesting story: In 1987 the BBC News o the uk tv channel BBC1 was delayed because of the newsroom catching fire, however over here it’s mostly power failures, dodgy tapes, or ‘not finding the film’
@@ibaclips1663 Yeah I think I've seen a clip of a schedule screen with a very nervous-sounding continuity announcer reading it and telling people about the fire! xD
Idk, I just find this stuff so fascinating. The small stories of everyday real life that are constantly taking place all around us!
I assume when they switched to the Japanese feed, the satellite dish they were using to tune the Japanese feed was getting the signal somewhat weakly as evidenced by the "sparklies" and "image shifting"(maybe NBC master control/where the buds were located where in NYC) and the Japanese feed signal footprint was not intended for the states.
1:30 the “technical difficulties” announcement is read by NBC staff announcer Fred Facey
My grandpa got this and...
*He said that was the best part of the football game.*
This is the first football game I could recollect watching!
I REMEMBER WHEN MY FATHER SCREAM AND SAY NOOOOO
WELL,THAT WAS SOMETHING SAD AND WEIRD
The VO at 1:30 is Fred Facey- staff announcer at 30 Rock for many years- did the VO for Today until 2006 as well as News 4 New York.
Which was pretty amazing, since he passed away in 2003. (Yes, I'm aware that it was recorded).
A familiar voice as epic as Don Pardo’s.
Not gonna lie. I miss things like this. Everything is so digital and so perfect that things like this just don't seem to happen that much anymore. Or maybe they do and I just don't see them much. This is a great video. Thanks for the upload.
The only good thing about digital ? HDTV and 4k
cbs has this weird "proof of performance" calibration test that, to my knowledge, still happens but it's like at, 3 am or something
Even when they do happen from time to time, broadcasts fail less spectacularly these days
@ Paul Maguire's comments about Nebraska having problems with teams that throw the football: They didn't seem to have a problem stopping the Gators in the 96 Fiesta Bowl, and they kept the game close with FSU in the 94 Orange Bowl, and in 95 we did what we tended to do in the Erickson era and came in overconfident and gave them the game. So really, Nebraska didn't so much have a problem against the pass, they just had a problem against The U!
"Atmospheric conditions"... I guess they're not wrong, as smoke from the control room would be an adverse atmospheric condition...🤣
Also, I'm surprised that the Japanese were interested enough in American college football to have a dedicated Japanese-language feed of the Orange Bowl.
They've got at least one league of their own, if I recall right.
Uh-oh! NBC is now in Japanese!
The American TV speaks Japanese language!
I thought it was sound like NHK World.
유동균 Does this mean NBC gets better shows? Just kidding.
You watch it too? Huh. I thought I was the only one.
Didn’t know NBC had some stash of 90’s anime. Lemme head there now...
Actually, NBCUniversal’s Japanese unit is involved in anime productions (“Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie” is one example).
*SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE, WE HAVE BEEN*
*EXPERIENCING TRANSMISSION DIFFICULTIES DUE*
*TO ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS.*
Fuuny how the Japanese feed replaced the current audio!!!
This happened around the end of the game.
What amazes me is that there was a Japanese feed of an American football game to begin with. Is/was it popular over there?
The original “Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.”
I remember sometime ago during a Dodger game telecast when the satellite feed broke down and the picture was lost
The legendary Vin Scully started talking at length about many things for about 25 minutes or so.
When the picture was restored, and all was normal, he finally said “…and now I can finally shut up”.
TV. It’s something, ain’t it?
Imagine watching this game live, not knowing what’s happening. I wasn’t even alive at the time of this. What even happened?
It's in the video description - basically a leak in the control room caused a fire that had NBC losing the footage. They jumped over to a Japanese signal until they could rig up a solution!
@@PredictedCyborg holy shit
did the japanese have their own control room?
Yup, they did! :)
Cool. Thanks :)
No, they didn't. If you watch very closely, you can see that during the technical problems they are only using one camera in the stadium, plus the blimp camera. Traditionally a "world feed" was produced for these sorts of games, which was picked up by all of the international broadcasters who inserted the audio of their own announcers. When NBC lost the truck, everyone apparently lost the multicamera world feed, too.
My guess is that the audio subcarriers on this satellite feed were being used to carry the international broadcasters, and an NBC satellite technician in New York, hoping to find the "natural" feed of just the stadium audio, dialed through everything he could find. You can hear it going from one set of announcers (who do not sound like they are speaking Japanese), to a muffled voice who seems to be speaking English, to static, and then finally to the Japanese announcers before dropping the audio entirely.
@@andyrose5616it was a joke Dude
@@WREYtube yeah
A higher quality copy of the whole game can be found here (the technical error occurs at 3:05:43): m.ua-cam.com/video/w3eLccs8eYg/v-deo.html
that one's a little different from this one.
Damn I was hoping they'd show Gayle Gardners beautiful face! She was amazing beautiful!
Japanese culture has been a big part of my life for many years. I have played Nintendo video games for example, one of my favorites being Pokemon, whose anime I also enjoyed for years (until they replaced the dub VAs), and Pikachu is my favorite Pokemon. Incidentally, NBC is now co-owned with Universal Studios, the studio I want to release live-action Pokemon movie adaptations.
LogoAttitude Weeaboo...
Except Universal withdrew from Detective Pikachu and Warner Bros. took over the co-film rights from them as their deal with Legendary ended prematurely after the box office failures of their co-productions.
double-u e e a-boo you are a wee-a-boo and ar e dee dee i tee they can’t contain that
Today happens to be the orange bowl
0:07 OOF
3:19
*(the whole NBC crew laughs)*
atmospheric condition affecting the feed? what type of weather would do that.
There was no weather problem. I suspect NBC already had that Chyron typed up and ready to go in case of rain fade, and used it since they had no better explanation for the problem at that point.
Yup! It should have been worse, but the Canes got a monster amount of penalty yards...
How many yards were the Hurricanes penalized?
You are watching Nippon Hoso Kyokai.
Nobody:
Not a single soul:
My brain at 3 am: 0:06
Did the difficulties ever get solved or what happened
Yes it got solved.
Hi Ann Marie and the information
Miami-kun!!
And to this, I say _Konnichiwa!_
How do you pronounce Torretta in Japanese? :)
トレッタ, Silly!
Funny narrator at 1:30!
Does directv have technical difficulties please stand by?
Yes.
Thats is so creepy so creepy
Was that Don Pardo announcing the technical difficulties?
No it was Fred Facey.
1992 Orange Bowl
MIAMI 22 NU 0
well if NBC was Japanese then the"let's all be there!" would be different it would say NBC Shai kureshou "let's all be there!"
i got rickrolled in a ad
The tekkit gamer
1:30 AGH!!!! That jumpscares me!!
Rip and nice profile picture.
How did it happen?
Jamie Willkner:
NBC lost the feed due to adverse weather conditions, and (I believe) that lead to a power failure.
It was caused by a fire, made worse by weather conditions, that led to a power failure.
1:30
miami says they have - 0:06
Use the Japanese audio feed.
Hi Ann Marie and the information I provided will help you to get a nice birthday party for the follow up with Patrick Gregory
Hi Ann Marie and the information I provided will help you to
😁😁
Who won
I can’t tell who are the teams
Miami. 22-0
I was asleep at that time (living with my real parents in a house on the north end of my hometown of Columbus, Ohio).
Miami did. Nebraska had bad luck for many years in the Orange Bowl, especially from 1982-1993. The 1994 Orange Bowl (1/1/95) was the first national championship they won since 1971.
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