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This morning, flipped on the London Foosball game to run in the background. When no local commercials aired, I assumed someone was just gonna get fired. All tha
by jprd 5y ago
This morning, flipped on the London Foosball game to run in the background. When no local commercials aired, I assumed someone was just gonna get fired. All that showed was a fancy placeholder graphic with a local affiliate code.
One less itch for my brain to scratch - thanks!
- ehPReth 5y agoDo you have a picture of this anywhere?
- sverhagen 5y agoWhat makes you think no one is gonna get fired now then?
- Reubachi 5y agoWell, we now know it won't be the "commercial manager" or whoever that gets the axe, rather an IT Admin.
- LocalH 5y agoSpeaking from a US perspective here, although these basics would likely be true everywhere. Stations have a process when this type of thing happens. There's usually a range of time when the commercials are "good", and there's often times enough non-commercial content in the breaks that things could be shuffled around and all spots can still be made good during the relevant program. At the very least, I'm sure they'd bump a lesser-paying commercial if it absolutely came down do it, to get paid by a more expensive commercial. In this case, being live, the operator would be firing the break themselves. If they missed the break due to gross negligence, they'll probably lose their job (or at least be reprimanded). But, if the fault happened due to technical malfunction, or if they happened to be dragged away from the console by their supervisor, then they'll just make the spots good and move on.