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"Jesus Christ, Help Us Oh Lord"


So there I was channel surfing on a dull Wednesday night, when I stumbled across Seven’s US doco, Mayday: Head on Collision and my ears pricked up at some odd audio that wasn’t matching the vision. It was looping the phrase “Jesus Christ, Help Us Oh Lord.” Had my aerial picked up some FM interference?

Nope. Seven was in technical hell for about seven minutes -but it felt like about twenty. What was going on? And why hadn’t they cut to the 7 logo with a “we apologise” voice-over? Deeksy where were you?

Next day a Seven spokesperson told me it was a glitch from the news department which had picked up audio from an Iraq news item in which a truck driver was under attack. At about two minutes in to the footage, you can hear him ask for divine intervention. Seven also apologised to anybody offended.

The Australian tried to report that the audio was actually “Jesus Christ one of the Navarines.” I don’t think so. It wasn’t even “Jesus Christ one of the Nazarenes” either.

True to form Today Tonight spun it into a story, complete with archival footage of rival networks dropping the ball in earlier mishaps. Bless.

Seven didn’t re-commence the Mayday programme either. If anybody cares, they reckon they will re-run it some other time (I’m thinking 3am sometime in December maybe?).

So here we are, barely four days into the New Year and already two networks have had to apologise to the audience.

It’s gonna be a great year…

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