WTTW Channel 11 - Doctor Who - "The Leisure Hive" (Opening & Technical Difficulties Moment, 1983)

Here's the opening of the Doctor Who installment, "The Leisure Hive" on WTTW Channel 11, which also includes a technical difficulties moment.
Manning the mic this evening was Ms. Joan Kohn, who barrels through her voiceover like someone who is perhaps not as big a fan of Doctor Who as Marty Robinson. Rumor has it that she was half way out to her car in the parking lot before they told her she had to come back and announce a technical difficulties moment.
We also get to see a neat slide marking the occasion, done in a "circuit diagram" (or "electrical schematic") motif.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 27th 1983 at 11:00pm.
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[@Fygee]

You can practically hear the announcer thinking "What in the hell am I reading?" at the beginning.

[@Tomsonic41]

I'm amazed how long they kept it going before putting up the Technical Difficulties slide! If this was a BBC broadcast, they would have cut it off within 10 seconds of this happening...

[@etekweb]

It does appear at first to be simply part of the show honestly, at least to the unfamiliar.
Also, if the VO announcer was called back when she was halfway across the lot as mentioned in the description, they may have prioritized getting the announcer back in the studio over cutting to a difficulties slide (especially since the announcer cuts in at the same time as the slide).

[@cubdukat]

The last thing WTTW wants is an angry mob of Chicagoland Whovians descending upon their studios. They got that fixed post haste...

[@jasejj]

​@@etekweb Yeah but there was nothing stopping them cutting to the slide, playing out some music and have the announcer back when available. As the OP states the BBC (or ITV for that matter) would have been on this within seconds.

[@jareddicarlo7816]

The long pan at the beginning of this story is one of my favorite Doctor Who moments for some reason.

[@acefilms1992]

nice windows 95 pipe screensaver.

[@luisreyes1963]

Damn Daleks were behind this, I bet!

[@fouranimations]

I believe the tape wasn’t splice good enough, so you could just see a jumping screen

[@rassilontdavros3004]

Personally, I would've come back in at the end of the panning shot. Never knew why they felt one that long was a good idea...

[@raquelribby1234]

Someone spilled coffee on the control board again... Joe

[@starfox1]

i worked there at channel 11 many yrs ago. i had no idea that there were still people in the lower level studios at the late hour dr who came on. i mean like the announcer who said "were having technical problems...". i always thought those were pre recorded and they just popped the dr who tape in.

[@jasejj]

I'm not sure Joan would have got to second interview at a UK station! What the heck was that announcement - sounded like they'd got the cleaning lady to read the script 😂

[@yvonnerogers6429]

Hahahahaha! Wow! I've seen "The Leisure Hive" in full, and I can honestly say that the poor announcer tripping over her tongue and the technical difficulties actually IMPROVE the start of the show by about 1000%! XD On the whole, not a bad story, though. Thanks for posting.

[@koolsteins]

Just four years before the station would be hijacked by Max Headroom while also airing an episode of Doctor Who.

[@TStudiosInc]

I clicked on this video thinking this was it

[@gyorgylorand2617]

That does it ! He's a frickin' nerd !

[@nicksimon7364]

First time I ever saw the starfield intro - felt cheated until I saw Meglos a week later

[@Iamnotrandom565]

That fuzzy video

[@seanshayneshawnm6996]

error signal

[@pizzagob1in17]

I'm sorry, but... Doctor, Who broke the film?