1989 San Francisco Earthquake Live

1989 San Francisco Earthquake - World Series footage, live on TV

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[TheComicfreak10]

"We are in commercial- I guess.." Don't they have a live broadcast feed monitor or something? ITS ON A "WORLD SERIES ON ABC" SLIDE YOU MORON!

[vicorly]

@TheComicfreak10 That was probably from the network feed from New York, like color bars when there is no other video signal.

[LDD86]

Baseball fans: "God, Tim McCarver, shut the F up!"

God : "OK"

[vicorly]

@LDD86 Nice.

[raelAlan]

i was 6 y/o i remember sitting on the living room floor while my mom was cooking dinner i told her the tv was broken. It's just a flicker of a memory but i remember this.

[brealmsys]

@almostfm Ahh...right on. I'm no expert in the matter, but I figured that was what happened. Makes sense they would always have the POTS line up, good backup for...things like this, naturally.

[almostfm]

@brealmsys Just to pick a small nit--the POTS line is always up and running as a backup in case the satellite link goes down. That's why it was only about 15 seconds from losing the link to having the phone audio up. You can hear them try the satellite audio @:32, and when that was just static, the phone audio came up 6 seconds later. Somebody in the network control center just had to press a couple of buttons (and maybe move a fader) to bring the phone audio up.

[mdumas43073]

Meanwhile, Jack Buck and Johnny Bench were preparing to call the game for CBS Radio. After the quake hit and they came back on the air, Buck told Bench, "If you'd moved as fast when you played as you did getting out of our booth, you never would have hit into a double play in your career."

[brealmsys]

@TheComicfreak10 Umm...you know, since they just were in an earthquake, they can't see what is going on, for Pete's sake, they had to CALL into the network for an audio feed. Normally, yes, I'm sure they had a broadcast feed, but when an earthquake shakes your transmission dish that much, it loses sync and you get nothing in or nothing out! :)

[brealmsys]

@TheComicfreak10 Umm...you know, since they just were in an earthquake, they can't see what is going on, for Pete's sake, they had to CALL into the network for an audio feed. Normally, yes, I'm sure they had a broadcast feed, but when an earthquake shakes your transmission dish that much, it loses sync and you get nothing in or nothing out! :)

[brealmsys]

@TheComicfreak10 Umm...you know, since they just were in an earthquake, they can't see what is going on, for Pete's sake, they had to CALL into the network for an audio feed. Normally, yes, I'm sure they had a broadcast feed, but when an earthquake shakes your transmission dish that much, it loses sync and you get nothing in or nothing out! :)

[stayAU]

@strymnky4evr it was totally like that here in Virginia when we had our 5.8 nothing compared to a 10 but it was pretty close to a 6.

[EvilFingers]

I was working at Domino's Pizza near Geary/Leavenworth when the quake hit. I remember seeing the Kitchen Floor Tiles move in a Water Ripple Effect

[MommaOkie]

@FutureNewsAnchor My school didn't have study hall. :-( Oh well it was worth the zero to watch the news on this