Oops. “Manchester United are rubbish”
"Someone was training to learn how to use the ticker," BBC News told surprised viewers.
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BBC News drew some UK viewer reaction after a news ticker bizarrely declared”Manchester United are rubbish.”
An anchor apologised for the mishap two hours later.
“A little earlier, some of you may have noticed something pretty unusual on the ticker that runs along the bottom of the screen with news making a comment about Manchester United, and I hope that Manchester United fans weren’t offended by it.
“Let me just explain what was happening: behind the scenes someone was training to learn how to use the ticker and to put text on the ticker, so they were just writing random things not in earnest and that comment appeared.
“So apologies if you saw that and you were offended and you’re a fan of Manchester United.
“But certainly that was a mistake and it wasn’t meant to appear on the screen. So that was what happened, we just thought we’d better explain that to you.”
Errrr… what is going on with the BBC News ticker? pic.twitter.com/fofbiGyMfs
— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) May 24, 2022
A BBC statement added: “There was a technical glitch during training with our test ticker, which rolled over to live programming for a few seconds.
“We apologised for any offence caused on air.”
Source: Herald Sun
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2 Responses
From a Chelsea fan: I agree with the trainee ticker intern. Manchester United are rubbish!
From a Man Utd fan I agree too this season.