I think, even if there weren't the staff shortages that Kevin posted about,
that cutting 12 minutes of technical difficulties is still going to require
filling that gap in some way that the network and/or its affiliates either
couldn't address or lacked alternatives.
In other words, could the affiliates have started their next programs 12
minutes earlier or have 12 minutes of stuff they could plug in with little
advance notice? I don't know the answer, but I'm leaning towards no.
And FWIW, at least in Sacramento they aired the countdown in both the East
Coast and West Coast timeslots.
David
On Friday, January 2, 2026 at 09:20:51 AM PST, 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.
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