A technical glitch resulted in the “CBS Evening News” having to run credits for the last few minutes of its broadcast last night.
In honor of the mistake, we thought we would look back at some of the most memorable TV news technical glitches from the last few years.
2005: CNN puts giant “X” on Dick Cheney’s face.
2006: CNN’s “Tucker” can’t get the feed from Iowa to work.
2007: NBC’s “Dateline” adds crosshairs to story on Virginia Tech shootings.
2008: CNN Simulcasts HLN due to technical difficulties.
Technical difficulties on “NBC Nightly News”
Jim Cramer gets ‘excited’ for awful day on Wall St
2009: Technical difficulties as Matt Lauer interviews President Obama.
It just goes to show you: technical glitches are a regular part of TV news. This is live TV, after all.
Any others that we missed? Let us know in the comments.