A power outage twice interrupted Fox’s broadcast of Game 1 of the World Series between the Royals and Mets.
The outage happened in the middle of the fourth inning, and Fox said it was caused by their broadcast truck in Kansas City losing power. A screen appeared saying “we are experiencing technical difficulties, please stand by.” And stand by fans did.
The network was apologetic:
We apologize for technical difficulties with our #WorldSeries broadcast. We are working on fixing the issue ASAP
— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) October 28, 2015
Google Fiber was suitably chastened, too:
We're so sorry about the outage in KC. We know it couldn't have happened at a worse time, and we're working as quickly as we can to fix it.
— Google Fiber (@googlefiber) October 28, 2015
Viewers missed Kendrys Morales striking out. When the broadcast resumed, MLB official Joe Torre was seen on the field speaking with umpires and managers of the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals.
After a short delay, Fox brought in the MLB Network’s feed which had been used as the international feed.
