paterson1 wrote:

Sunday evening flipping around the dial I noticed a commercial for Mayfair came up on Global TV advertising up to 80% off on merchandise.  Snazzy ad with lots of graphics and prices and an excited announcer reading the great deals.  

Only issue was the commercial copy and graphics were in French.   No doubt there is an English version of the ad  but on Sunday evening not on Global. 

Occasionally on various websites an ad in French gets placed by accident on an English site.  Years ago in the Toronto Sun they accidently ran a full page ad for Best Buy (or was it Future Shop) in French.

 

I have seen this same French commercial on Global BC twice in the past week or so. This was airing during local news.

Methinks that Master Control is still out of control.
 

... the Disaster better known as Master...

I’m in California right now, and for the first time I saw the English version of the Wayfair commercial.

I was half-expecting NBC here to air a Spanish version of the commercial.

Calgary and Edmonton also can't run commercial breaks this morning. Calgary just sits on one of their skycam shots with music, while Edmonton is running a couple of internal promos through their control room and eating up the extra time. 

https://twitter.com/DallasFlexhaug/status/1588150040622923776

That's gonna be a lot of make goods for those three stations.

Last edited by ED1 (November 3, 2022 10:43 am)

More technical troubles for the network, this time on Global Toronto.

During their noon news, they went to black for a good 30 seconds out of the Anthony Farnell weather promo. They finally ran another commercial and came back to Farnell with the weather. But he never got to finish. He was cut off mid-map and mid-word, as the station went to black again. I'm assuming the show ran over time and the computer cut him off to go to the next show. 

But even that didn't work. It was followed by a viewer notice that the following program was available with descriptive video - and at least another 30 secs. of black. Suddenly ET Canada came up halfway through the intro to the show.

First time I've personally seen this in Toronto, but given the evidence below, I'm sure it's happened before. Not sure what's going on over there, but it's still an issue.

Cost cutting and reducing staff coming back to bite them in the derriere?

Radiowiz wrote:

Was the weather done live? 

Yes, Farnell is live from the rooftop patio of his home for the noon. It appears that somehow they just mistimed the show (or the blackouts made it too long) and they just cut him off mid-sentence, went to black for a few seconds, came back on with the disclaimer for the next show, and then went back to black for at least another 30. A real mess. I don't think the PA was to blame for the mis-timing, but it's hard to tell.