Sizzling Mic moments
In January Perth Mayor and former Seven presenter Basil Zempilas denied he was throwing shade on the Australian Open after feedback at a press convention drew headlines.
“Tennis is on tonight, isn’t it?” Zempilas requested 9’s Michael Genovese.
“Ah, yeah, the feminine ultimate,” Genovese replied.
“It’s a reserves recreation, then,” Zempilas stated.
He later remarked he was referring to the information bulletin not the tennis.
Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas has insisted a controversial second caught on digital camera has been taken out of context – calling accusations he was referring to girls’s tennis “flat out improper”. #9News pic.twitter.com/FWo08c8dpA
— 9News Perth (@9NewsPerth) January 27, 2024
9’s Tony Jones is an Oops record common, this yr making the minimize for forgetting to put on a mic.
On Digicam
When Australian Idol decide Kyle Sandilands apparently drove his automotive to a small nation city in South Australia to supply some younger nation singers, a telltale drone shot for this roadstop confirmed a number of white stretch limousines close by. The magic of tv, as they are saying…
Media Watch highlighted a really poor stuff-up by ABC Hobart during which a information bulletin erroneously performed 2019 AFL footage as a substitute of 2024 video games.
“Final weekend sports activities followers watching ABC 7pm information had been scratching their heads when the AFL weekend spherical up got here on…
Drawback was, Melbourne didn’t play Carlton. They performed the Western Bulldogs every week in the past and received by so much.” #MediaWatch pic.twitter.com/XjvlY31qjR— Media Watch (@ABCmediawatch) March 25, 2024
Media Watch additionally revealed The Sunday Venture edited riot squad footage right into a story about pro-Palestinian rallies, taken from one other story altogether. “This was a mistake, and risked mischaracterising the occasions of the day, and may by no means have occurred. It was not deliberate,” stated an apologetic Sarah Harris.
Throughout one Seven Information story on Bluey automated studio cameras went for a wander…
In a uncommon slip of the tongue 10 Information First presenter Sandra Sully misinterpret a reference to One Nation’s Pauline Hanson saying, “.. why the One Nation chief has been pressured to battle claims that she is a rapist. Racist. I apologise and proper. Racist.”
Studio hearth alarms throughout broadcasts are a daily offender. This yr it fell to The Venture to evacuate the constructing.
Guys, we get it you might be so obsessive about us and had been questioning the place we went because the Canine Home got here on.
And to be trustworthy, we couldn’t inform you both as the hearth alarm was going off and we simply adopted our boss… pic.twitter.com/spIZezuBKE
— The Venture (@theprojecttv) July 31, 2024
In August Information Breakfast‘s Michael Rowland and Bridget Brennan broke out the ABC’s All Climate Plan for his or her out of doors post-Logies broadcast: umbrellas.
Jockey Jamie Kah was left embarrassed when she was being requested by 9’s Francesca Cumani about her fiance Ben Melham getting ready for a Group 1 VRC Champions Mile. She appeared all the way down to the screens to see pictures of her ex, Clayton Douglas. “Oh God!” she might be heard to say.
PR PR
Paramount CEO Beverley McGarvey despatched an e-mail to employees after a giant weekend of the Australian Grand Prix: “A particular shout out to the game group who labored tirelessly within the lead as much as the occasion in addition to the information, Studio 10, Venture, 10 Play, operations, know-how and social groups who executed particular dwell protection, bulletins and interviews within the lead up and throughout the weekend.” Solely downside was Studio 10 had been axed and farewelled in 2023.
On Good Friday 9’s group director of finance operations wrote to employees advising their fortnightly pay wouldn’t be processed over the Easter weekend: “This is because of public holidays and though the pay particulars have been finalised and transferred to ANZ, they won’t be processed till Tuesday 2nd April.”
Typos
10 Information First additionally reported George ‘Nebus’ had handed away … then there was the video bundle with imaginative and prescient of Paul Hogan as an early parody character ‘George Fungus.’
For almost a full week in September Seven’s EPG itemizing thought Joe Biden was set to face Donald Trump in a Stay TV debate. Nope, he had stepped apart for Kamala Harris earlier in July.
And likewise
TV Tonight‘s annual April Idiot’s story, this yr suggesting Lynne McGranger would entrance a Dwelling & Away spin-off fixing crimes in Yabbie Creek, was so convincing New Thought republished it as truth, whereas IF Journal gave it an official manufacturing itemizing. Sorry ’bout that!
