One precedent here is World Series Game 3 in 1989, where after ABC lost their feed from San Francisco due to the earthquake, they went to reruns of "Roseanne" and "The Wonder Years" before the connection could be reestablished:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umIzQ-C-fTc ABC News coverage of the 1989 Bay Area (Loma Prieta) earthquake - from ABC satellite feed (10/17/89) youtube.com > On Jan 2, 2026, at 9:20 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wednesday night at around 11:12 p.m. ET, in the middle of Lainey Wilson > singing, CBS' New Year's Eve show from Nashville (from the producer of this > year's Kennedy Center Honors fiasco) went abruptly off the air--after a long > series of promos, New York fired up a rerun of "Matlock" (the current Kathy > Bates version, not the Andy Griffith version) and then 12 minutes later went > back to Nashville and hosts hack comic Burt Kreischer and singer HARDY (a > guy, I thought that going by one name only meant they were a woman and was > some sort of Internet influencer) saying that there was a power outage in > Nashville and joking that it wasn't their fault: > > https://deadline.com/2026/01/cbs-nye-special-nashvilles-big-bash-tech-issues-matlock-1236659616/ > > And although one would think they could edit it out in time in Studio City, > the cockup was on the delayed West Coast telecast. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/690b7e3e-a571-4979-8b4c-ecfa432ad064n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/690b7e3e-a571-4979-8b4c-ecfa432ad064n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/E055523B-88E3-492E-87F1-24EB53C44296%40ellwanger.tv.
