Best on air mistake ever?

My station actually shot a story today about a man who climbed Kilimanjaro.. and, he's blind!

That clip was all I could think of.

 

This isn't on air but I thought it was funny.

Once a competing newspaper was running full photo pages based on a different color. Photo of yellow or blue things. With huge headline of the color. Well one day the color is red. Fire trucks, hydrants, roses. Only problem was the page had no color. Two or three issues later, they ran the same page in full color.

 

I cannot verify this story's accuracy. It supposedly happened during the broadcast of a high school football game.
The story goes:

pbp: There are only 2 ticks left on the cock.
color: There's not much time left, either.

 

Heard something similar one night driving back to the office. Caught another high school football game on the radio.

PBP: The Lions are really trying to win this game.

Are they supposed to be trying to lose it?

 

Anyone remember "Two Dicks...Wow!"?
During a Bears-Jaguars broadcast in 2001 or so, the female sideline reporter (Bonnie Bernstein perhaps? Or maybe Lesley Visser) interviewed Bears coach Dick Jauron after getting the cue from the NBC broadcaster Dick Enberg.

It went something like this:

Dick Enberg: We now go to Bonnie Bernstein with Dick Jauron...
Bernstein: Thanks Dick (turns to Jauron). Well, Dick...two Dicks?...Wow!

I can't seem to find that clip anywhere on youtube...but it definitely happened because the local radio station 670 the score had that little soundbite for the rest of the year.

 

Made quite a community splash when it happened, too.

 

About 15 years ago, Harry Caray & Steve Stone killing time during a rain delay, talking about how effective Dennis Eckersley has been ...

Steve: "And Eckersley hasn't been blowing anybody recently" (realized it pretty quickly and tried to cover his tracks).

Caray was completely clueless.

 

www.failblog.org

 

He spent most of the final years of his career like that! At least the whole time I watched Cubs games starting in the late 80's

 

Bert Blyleven's F-bomb when he screwed up a live intro, followed by his realization that it was live is still epic.

 

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