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[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by cbenham

Or the time in the mid 1950s the network announcer said, "This is the NB--CBS TELEVISION NETWORK" at the end of 'Bigtop' one Saturday morning.

There was another goof on the NBC television network (then owned by RCA) that has stuck in my memory for well over 35 years. The local affiliate in Cleveland was going from a commercial (following a local show, IIRC) to the NBC network feed; the engineer cut to the feed about 15 seconds too soon, and northern Ohio viewers of WKYC-TV in Cleveland, myself included, found themselves looking at the station break for WNBC-TV in New York! The station had a unique ID at the time, with the NBC "snake" logo inside the number 4.

I also read of one incident in the 1930s in which a network radio announcer, at the breaking point after a particularly trying childrens' program, turned to his engineer and sighed, "That ought to keep them little b----s (expletive deleted) quiet for awhile." Unbeknownst to the announcer, the studio microphone was still live, and his remark immediately went out over the network, coast-to-coast. The news story describing this incident ended (in paraphrase) with the words "...The children's hour (on network radio) was never quite the same (after that)." I wonder if the announcer involved was fired.