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Awkward moment BBC News suffers technical blunder as host is left watching promo clips in silence for over a minute
There appeared to be a difficult glitch in the system
THIS IS the awkward moment that BBC News suffered a huge technical blunder.
The host was unfortunately left watching promo clips in silence for over a minute on the airwaves.
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Matthew Amroliwala, 63, was getting ready to take to the airwaves as promotional clips for the publicly funded channel played out.
The corporation's news analysis editor, Ros Atkins, 51, was promoting Radio 4's The Media Show.
He appeared on-screen alongside BBC culture & media editor Katie Razzall, 54, in a trailer for their radio programme.
However, midway through the clip, Matthew bizarrely appeared on the split screen.
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The promotional video kept playing, but a large portion was covered up by the sudden appearance of the anchor.
He was seen speaking to his off-camera colleagues, although the volume was down.
The presenter briefly disappeared from the screen as the promotional video for Laura Kuenssberg's Sunday show played out.
However, he later reappeared as he stared down the lens in silence while the trailer for the political programme played out.
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But there were even more technical errors because, as the trailers were not playing properly.
Laura's voice continued to be heard on the airwaves, another trailer for a different programme was jammed into the system.
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The former political editor continued to give a walkthrough of her swanky studio, but viewers could only see a still image of a different journalist.
Throughout all of this, Matthew's serious expression was always shown to the viewer in a distracting technical glitch.
"Welcome back. For those watching closely, I think you've been back for a while.
"Apologies for that; some technical problems here in the studio."
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Then a still image of Donald Trump announcing the trade tariffs at the White House then appeared beside Matthew, which was from the start of the next VT.
The anchor seemed completely unfazed by the incident as he continued: "But you're watching BBC News.
"So at 3:30pm, let's turn to our main headlines here."
He then went on to read the news bulletin, telling the audience more about the president's sweeping changes to US trade policy.
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Welcome back. For those watching closely, I think you've been back for a while. Apologies for that; some technical problems here in the studio.
There continued to be more glitches as the anchor kept appearing while the director tried to play out the footage with the main headline graphics.
His box slid onto the screen as they tried to move on with the programme with each new piece of footage.
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