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CFRB News Reader Loses It While Reading Bee Story
It's not often you hear a newscaster lose it while reading a story. But it happened to CFRB's Ashley Legassic on Wednesday morning, as she tried to get through a story about 5 million bees being let loose on a highway in Burlington following an accident.
She struggled to get through the story in her 8:30 AM update, openly laughing as the yarn somehow struck her as hilarious in the moment. She managed to get back into it, but the next sentence put her away again and she stopped reading for a few seconds as she tried to regain her composure.
She finally did finish both the story and the newscast and to my surprise, John Moore didn't say anything about it.
Not often you hear something like that on air and I'm wondering if it ever happened to anyone here, where something struck you as so stupid or funny, you just couldn't hold it together?
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Mine was "Traffic is being held up on the M1 outside of Birmingham due to a crane erection." sadly I only saw the word erection, and I did not even get to the word crane ..
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Stinand wrote:
Mine was "Traffic is being held up on the M1 outside of Birmingham due to a crane erection." sadly I only saw the word erection, and I did not even get to the word crane ..
That report was definitely "hard on" listeners 
I think it's still on YouTube, but I thought it was a riot when Nick Dixon (while still at CHCH), read the kicker story at the end of his newscast. It was the Harry Baals story from a number of years ago, and hearing Nick crack up was a hoot.
(Edit: Found It !!!)
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First week in the industry on the air at CFOS in 1959, in the big studio with a long boom mic sitting across the table from the Farm Editor reading the spots in between reports. First break was a spot for Shur Gain Chick Starter.
The first line was, "Do you want your chicks to lay better, (staring to smirk) if so use Shur-Gain Chick Starter."
Kinda lost it a bit and it came out "Do you want your chicks to lay better, if so use Shur-Gain Shit starter."
The Farm Editor is trying to hold it and the operator across the studio in the control room had his head down banging the table laughing uncontrollably. Still remember the gaff after all these years.
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And one from the history books, dating all the way back to 1937 when ex-Royal Navy Lt.-Commander Thomas Woodroffe attempted to describe the illumination of the British Royal Navy Fleet live for the BBC, after a few too many splices of the main brace in the officer's mess prior to broadcast:
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This is my all-time favourite. A talk show host named Long John Nebel was on the air in New York City in the early 70s, interviewing some prestigious guests, including a well-known plastic surgeon and a PR expert.
At one point, he stops to read a live spot about a movie called "It Happened In Hollywood." He hadn't read it beforehand and what was supposed to be a one minute commercial turns into about 6 minutes of non-stop out-of-control laughter, as the idiocy of the copy sinks in.
At one point, Nebel, a veteran and experienced host, absolutely disintegrates when he comes across the name of the lead actress. That happens around the 3:30 mark and I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone lose it on air the way he does at that moment. The audio starts with the actual pre-produced spot and then turns into mayhem.
I have to say whenever I need a laugh I turn this on. For sheer uncontrollable unplanned giggling on radio, I've never heard anything to beat it.
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First week in the industry on the air at CFOS in 1959, in the big studio with a long boom mic sitting across the table from the Farm Editor reading the spots in between reports. First break was a spot for Shur Gain Chick Starter.
The first line was, "Do you want your chicks to lay better, (staring to smirk) if so use Shur-Gain Chick Starter."
Kinda lost it a bit and it came out "Do you want your chicks to lay better, if so use Shur-Gain Shit starter."
The Farm Editor is trying to hold it and the operator across the studio in the control room had his head down banging the table laughing uncontrollably. Still remember the gaff after all these years.
A friend worked at CFOS back in the 1970s. One of their features every day was the obituary notices from the local funeral homes. One was expected to read it in their most sombre and dignified voice.
He told me that a favourite tricks with the other staff members was to gather outside the glass window of the studio and to try and make the reader laugh.
After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.