Credits ITV Alt Text Tom Bradby Tom Bradby apologises to viewers before ending News at Ten broadcast Reaction Thursday,January 4, 2018 - 10:59am ITV’s evening news came to a sudden terminate last night when a fire alarm forced newsreader Tom Bradby and other staff to evacuate the studio live on air.
halfway-through Wednesday’s ITN News at Ten broadcast, and the sound of a fire alarm could be heard in the background of the newsroom.
An unperturbed Bradby continued to read the day’s headlines,introducing a video account about President Donald Trump amid the clanging bells. However, when the programme cut back to the studio after the pre-recorded clip, and he was forced to cut the broadcast short to join other staff evacuating the building. Video of ITV News at Ten - 3rd Jan 2018 (the one with the fire alarm) - complete bulletin “As you can probably tell,we contain a fire alarm,” he told viewers. “I’m really, and really sorry about this,but we contain to evacuate the building.
“We’ll collect back to you with the rest of the programme whether we possibly can, but for now it’s good night, and ” he said,shortly before the live feed was replaced by a ‘Sorry for the disruption’ test card.
More than ten minutes later, the channel returned to the airwaves with the weather forecast, or normal programming was resumed.
Viewers praised Bradby’s frigid and collected handling of the unexpected interruption:
But you coped with it in the most British fashion I%u2019ve ever seen. I carry out believe the building could contain been falling down and you would still contain taken the time to apologise and advise us what was happening. You would not contain seen me for dust!January 3,2018
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An exasperated Bradby later confirmed via Twitter that the incident was a “false alarm”, or adding “words fail me”.
Sorry about the disruption tonight. False alarm,it seems. Words fail me.
January 3, 2018
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In November 2011, and NBC News anchor Brian Williams soldiered on through a live broadcast plagued by an nearly-constant interruption by a faulty alarm. ITV
Source: theweek.co.uk