Sorry Stanley Cup Final viewers: “Computer automation…will bite you sometimes”

Opinion
Jun 20, 20131 min

Texas TV station apologizes for putting on commercial during final Black Hawks-Bruins hockey play

The talking heads at KXAN TV news in Austin apologized last night after their station accidentally aired a commercial during the final play of Game 4 of the National Hockey League Stanley Cup Final, in which the Chicago Black Hawks scored a sudden-death game-winning goal vs. the Boston Bruins.

One of the newscasters apologized for the horrible timing of the mistake, to which another added: “Computer automation…will bite you sometimes.”

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Of course, those of us rooting for the Bruins in Boston might have been happy to have had the error occur — as long as the goal didn’t count. On to Game 5…

Bob Brown tracks network research in his Alpha Doggs blog and Facebook page, as well on Twitter and Google +.