Last Updated on June 15, 2020
Ah, the joys of live television.
You may have heard that a strange thing happened on Headline News earlier this week: an electrical fire broke out while anchors were on the air.
You can see the video of the confusion (though nobody 
bothered to tilt a camera up at the ceiling to actually show the fire that brought their coverage to a standstill) here.
When watching the video, you can begin to tell during the second voiceover, a story about protests in France, that something is obviously wrong and is distracting the anchors from their scripts.
When a studio light burns out, it is often not the simple flicker that you’re used to from lamps in your house. Sometimes, there is a loud pop. Sometimes, the bulb actually bursts from the heat. That’s something that you just get used to in a television studio. An actual fire isn’t, fortunately, the norm.
