You'll crack up. The biggest Teknikul Diffekulty in Broadcast Television I can tell people about is one that happened back in the early 90s on an independent, UHF TV station in my area where, on a Sunday afternoon, during an episode of Gunsmoke they were airing, the board operator on-duty accidentally slipped about 40 seconds of hardcore porn video onto air. I found out about about the incident from a friend who heard about it on the Jay Leno Show. I was preparing for a career move at that time and when that board operator was ultimately booted out of that station I ended up getting that board op position and worked at that station for quite a few years thereafter.
@@PhilManteWell thanks to the station's on-air Grass Valley AV switcher that had an 'auto enable' feature that would count down the running show segment to pre-roll to the break. Except the operator on-duty had the porn video punched up into the preview monitor.
Never knew why YT disabled comments on these vids. These older Archives give me warm feelings. This Ep has to be my favorite .Ive watched this one like 50 times. Keep Archiving Ben!
If my childhood memories aren't failing me - I seem to remember that one of the *very* early outcomes of a copyright claim was your comments section getting deleted and closed. Or maybe it was the COPPA auto-detection stuff. I dunno.
One of my absoute favorite episodes of OA. Not much to learn from it, but if OA just did a huge compilation of TD moments with Ben's commentary i'd watch in a heartbeat. Admittedly i'd be pissed off watching hockey from overseas and having the picture constantly cut out like that. Team Canada FTW!
YT shut down (and deleted) the comments sections to a handful of my videos (this one included) without notifying me. I only just turned them back on recently.
@@OddityArchive I remember back in 2013 when youtube made most comments pre 2012 unrepliable. Which is a shame because I remember replying to a person's comment from over a decade ago, and when they got back to me it was a good time. This was when youtube reallowed comment replies on older comments. Sadly, it seems they just delete channels now or comments now.
Australia's first commercial TV station outside a major city was GLV 10 Gippsland, outside of Melbourne. Apparently, the station's opening saw a live advertisement selling lawnmowers - unfortunately they mowed the cords in the studio and the station went off the air.
The good old days of when local TV stations used film projectors for most if their presentations, only to see them glitch up with dust corruption, film breaks, jittery images & audio loss. And don't get me started on faulty video signals. 😁
Nickelodeon had a rather interesting technical difficulties thing I saw once. It was Ned's Declassified episode on revenge. The episode started out a little glitched (like the frame rate was off) but it got better, but then near the end the episode just restarted and was all glitchy, and then "nickelodeon animals with wrenches and a machine of sorts" said "we are experiencing technical difficulties." It was pretty neat.
Yes. Comments on most, if not all videos should be back on now. For some stupid reason, YT disabled the comments on a handful of my videos-and I had no idea until fairly recently.
Fun fact, the artwork for the Spiders/Shatner kissing technical difficulties screen was done by Jack Davis, a legendary artist known for decades of work at Mac Magazine.
You'll crack up. The biggest Teknikul Diffekulty in Broadcast Television I can tell people about is one that happened back in the early 90s on an independent, UHF TV station in my area where, on a Sunday afternoon, during an episode of Gunsmoke they were airing, the board operator on-duty accidentally slipped about 40 seconds of hardcore porn video onto air. I found out about about the incident from a friend who heard about it on the Jay Leno Show. I was preparing for a career move at that time and when that board operator was ultimately booted out of that station I ended up getting that board op position and worked at that station for quite a few years thereafter.
What TV station was this? Just curious.
"Accidentally"
@@PhilManteWell thanks to the station's on-air Grass Valley AV switcher that had an 'auto enable' feature that would count down the running show segment to pre-roll to the break. Except the operator on-duty had the porn video punched up into the preview monitor.
Never knew why YT disabled comments on these vids. These older Archives give me warm feelings. This Ep has to be my favorite .Ive watched this one like 50 times. Keep Archiving Ben!
If my childhood memories aren't failing me - I seem to remember that one of the *very* early outcomes of a copyright claim was your comments section getting deleted and closed.
Or maybe it was the COPPA auto-detection stuff. I dunno.
One of my absoute favorite episodes of OA. Not much to learn from it, but if OA just did a huge compilation of TD moments with Ben's commentary i'd watch in a heartbeat.
Admittedly i'd be pissed off watching hockey from overseas and having the picture constantly cut out like that. Team Canada FTW!
Geez I didn’t realize how obscure this series really is. Comment section takeover
YT shut down (and deleted) the comments sections to a handful of my videos (this one included) without notifying me. I only just turned them back on recently.
@@OddityArchive that’s really strange, either way love the series. 10 years worth of geeky analog goodness
@@OddityArchive I remember back in 2013 when youtube made most comments pre 2012 unrepliable. Which is a shame because I remember replying to a person's comment from over a decade ago, and when they got back to me it was a good time.
This was when youtube reallowed comment replies on older comments.
Sadly, it seems they just delete channels now or comments now.
TH-cam and taking Ls, name a better/worse combo.
@@Kurzov shout out to the loyal fan base.
"What's so damn romantic about spiders anyway?" I love that part lol
"...Or William Shatner?"
Australia's first commercial TV station outside a major city was GLV 10 Gippsland, outside of Melbourne. Apparently, the station's opening saw a live advertisement selling lawnmowers - unfortunately they mowed the cords in the studio and the station went off the air.
When the network had technical difficulties, we always joked that 'the Russians had shot down the satellite."
Holy shit, I actually wrote an “analog horror” creepypasta recently where something like that happens.
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Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck gettin' dirt and gritty!
The good old days of when local TV stations used film projectors for most if their presentations, only to see them glitch up with dust corruption, film breaks, jittery images & audio loss.
And don't get me started on faulty video signals. 😁
Was that a wireless lavalier transmitter in your right pocket or were you just excited to do this episode?
Must have gotten a whiff of that ol' Blue Death Smoke...🤢
after that one video the puppy screen isn't that cute anymore...
Why did you have to censor "WGN"?
At the time, WGN was going after seemingly everyone who posted anything that aired on their channel. The joke has since been dropped.
@@OddityArchive Good.
@@OddityArchiveI thought it was a max headroom gag
That’s a really dope 12 string in the background
Nickelodeon had a rather interesting technical difficulties thing I saw once. It was Ned's Declassified episode on revenge. The episode started out a little glitched (like the frame rate was off) but it got better, but then near the end the episode just restarted and was all glitchy, and then "nickelodeon animals with wrenches and a machine of sorts" said "we are experiencing technical difficulties." It was pretty neat.
Nice to see some hometown stations! KCTS (PBS) and King 5 (NBC) in Seattle
Wait, comments are open?
Yes. Comments on most, if not all videos should be back on now. For some stupid reason, YT disabled the comments on a handful of my videos-and I had no idea until fairly recently.
20:36 Well, when you gotta go, you gotta go :-P
The "snow channel" scared me ngl
Just found and subbed to this channel. Absolutely awesome. Hoping a new comment will push the video to more people 💜
Love ya ben. Thanks for being so good at your craft. You rock.
Fun fact, the artwork for the Spiders/Shatner kissing technical difficulties screen was done by Jack Davis, a legendary artist known for decades of work at Mac Magazine.
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are.... are those spiders???
Nah. I'm pretty sure it's just a piece of fuzz on the capure thing that's moving around from the film rolling