It Was The %#@&ing Audio Console

By Brian 

What happened to the CBS Evening News last night? On Public Eye, vice president of news operations Frank Governale explained:

“The lack of audio was traced to the audio console in one of our control rooms. We found the audio board’s configuration file to be corrupt and believe there was a glitch/hit sometime during the broadcast that made the audio console’s program crash. After the problem was encountered the audio engineer rebooted the console and all mappings were normal, and all channels played back normally.”

It was too late for the first feed, though. Here’s the video…

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