The Today show was unexpectedly pulled off air Monday morning, after a serious technical glitch was unable to be fixed.
Following one minute without sound, the breakfast show stopped broadcast abruptly, and was replaced by ten minutes of in house ads before a prerecorded episode of Talking Honey was loaded into the programming schedule.
Returning to air 25 minutes later, fill in hosts David Campbell and Amelia Adams joked to viewers that the mysterious ”glitch” was a means of ”active sabotage” from regular hosts Karl Stefanonic and Ally Langdon who the pair were filling in for.
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”We are here doing you guys a favour and then you pulled the plug on us. So much so that we went to Nine Honey,” said Adams.
”They [Karl and Ally] tried to cancel us but we would not be cancelled!,” Campbell jokingly said.
”Even though we look quite calm there is a lot of people behind the scenes at Nine who have been very frantic trying to get us back on air so we want to thank them for their diligence,” he added.
Audio problems started happening during the 7:30am news update when reporter Alex Cullen fell silent during a crossover. At the time, the fill in hosts assumed there was an issue with his mic, not realising a much larger issue with the whole audio desk was at play.
“Active sabotage”, David and Amelia joked.
(Image: Nine)Many viewers took to social media to question what was happening on their screens, with one user writing, ”@TheTodayShow am I on the wrong channel? Why is 9Honey on my screen?? Have I missed something??? Changing channels!!!!”.
”What’s happening @Channel9? No Today Show?” another said. “[Five] minutes of in-house ads, now playing pre recorded ep of Talking Honey?”.
Speaking to TV Blackbox, a Nine spokesperson confirmed that the issue had now been fixed.
”We had an engineering issue at our North Sydney studios which has now been resolved,” the spokesperson said.
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