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Foul Mouthed Live Interruption On ESPN Still A Mystery
It happened Sunday afternoon on an ESPN broadcast of the Women's College World Series. At one point in the game, someone on a very good quality mic uttered a dirty phrase that appears not to have been heard by the broadcast crew.
They didn't react to it and it seems likely they weren't aware of what happened. The question now: how did whoever that was access a mic that was clearly not just a background fan being an idiot?
It only lasted a few seconds, but it's still a mystery as to how he did it and who he was. My suspicion: it was someone on the crew. Who else would have access to a live mic he knew would be on the air? As to why - that's an issue we may never get the answer to.
You can hear the very short hot mic moment here.
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But the closed captioning didn't meet the 100% accuracy requirement.
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Skywave wrote:
But the closed captioning didn't meet the 100% accuracy requirement.
Unless it's automated...
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Well, it WAS a baseball game, so maybe it wasn't as evil as it sounds. Umpires carry one, after all.
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Probably just a fan spotted an ambient/field mic. Some of them are very directional and you wouldn't even have to be the close to it. Happened from time-to-time back in my sports TV audio days.
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During the Indy 500 broadcast this past Sunday , Mike Shank, owner of the winning car, uttered the F word during an interview before the end of the race. The Fox announcers apologized for it saying it showed the emotion of the moment an carried on. I doubt anyone watching cared , salty language has been gaining acceptance on the airways now for several decades.
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It happened Sunday afternoon on an ESPN broadcast of the Women's College World Series. At one point in the game, someone on a very good quality mic uttered a dirty phrase that appears not to have been heard by the broadcast crew.
You can hear the very short hot mic moment here.
Although it is rude I find it amusing that an adult would actually do that, knowing it could be broadcasted, very juvenile/frat, or possibly a crew member fooling around not realizing the mic’s hot?!