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- 0:00Speaker 1: Just quickly.
- 0:00Speaker 2: I want to speak about this UK radio station, Radio Caroline,
- 0:04Speaker 2: because what they did well, Nita. But the story is
- 0:07Speaker 2: they accidentally announced King Charles's death. And I'm not talking
- 0:11Speaker 2: about in an intern pete way, like the oh.
- 0:14Speaker 1: You got uskilled the other day? What was that one
- 0:16Speaker 1: you did to.
- 0:17Speaker 3: Be because she died?
- 0:21Speaker 1: He he he got.
- 0:23Speaker 4: He's just so stupid when he does it like that.
- 0:25Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm so glad you leave it.
- 0:28Speaker 2: But yeah, So they had to issue a statement and
- 0:30Speaker 2: an apology because basically they've got this thing ready because
- 0:34Speaker 2: obviously it's in the UK. They've got this thing ready
- 0:36Speaker 2: to just fire off and it's always made ready to
- 0:39Speaker 2: fire off in case the King does die, right, but
- 0:41Speaker 2: it got fired off by accident. So we've got a
- 0:44Speaker 2: little bit of the audio as to what was being broadcast.
- 0:48Speaker 5: This is Radio Caroline. We have suspended our normal programs
- 0:52Speaker 5: until further notice as a mark of respect following the
- 0:55Speaker 5: passing of His Majesty King Charles the Third.
- 0:58Speaker 2: So then it was followed by God Save the King
- 1:01Speaker 2: and the station went into fifteen minutes of silence. So
- 1:04Speaker 2: now they've come out now to apologize in a statement
- 1:06Speaker 2: saying due to a computer error at our main studio.
- 1:09Speaker 2: The death of a monarch procedure which all UK stations
- 1:12Speaker 2: hold in readiness while hoping not to require, was accidentally activated.
- 1:16Speaker 2: We apologize to His Majesty the King and to our
- 1:19Speaker 2: listeners for any distress.
- 1:20Speaker 1: They just hit the wrong button.
- 1:21Speaker 4: That's all that on, you know from behind there.
- 1:24Speaker 6: To fire off a button bar, it's got to be okay,
- 1:27Speaker 6: hold on, so I know it's so in to fire
- 1:29Speaker 6: off a sound effect.
- 1:30Speaker 7: But yeah, like I do one now like, oh that
- 1:33Speaker 7: was well, it didn't work. Let me just put something
- 1:36Speaker 7: well I hit that with my finger.
- 1:38Speaker 6: That might be and that may have broke news here.
- 1:40Speaker 6: What what if the radio station.
- 1:42Speaker 4: Knows something we don't. Why have they got it at the.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Top of their Why they got it ready?
- 1:45Speaker 4: Why have they got it?
- 1:47Speaker 1: Is he gravely ill? We don't.
- 1:50Speaker 4: You'd have to search that, wouldn't you.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Well, our pom the pomme.
- 1:54Speaker 7: What's the deal there over in the UK you've worked
- 1:57Speaker 7: in radio there, you've got to be on the ready
- 1:58Speaker 7: for the death of a mon.
- 2:00Speaker 3: Oh god, yeah, it was like the number one thing
- 2:02Speaker 3: that was drilled into us. You have to be ready
- 2:04Speaker 3: for when at the time it was when the queen dies,
- 2:06Speaker 3: and there's like a whole long procedure. There's like loads
- 2:09Speaker 3: of instructions. You're trained for it from day one.
- 2:12Speaker 1: So did they know something like Bienka's suggesting.
- 2:15Speaker 5: No.
- 2:15Speaker 3: I think it was just a cock up amateur hour