"The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Technical Difficulties"―KVOA-TV4 Tucson―December 30, 1988

Here's a technical difficulties moment that occurred midway through a local NBC Movie of the Week showing of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, the 1965 multi-Oscar-winning adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical to which the network (and, in the Old Pueblo, KVOA) held the American broadcast rights from 1979 to 2001. For most of this time, NBC showed the film in a version in which 34 of its 174 minutes were excised in order to get it at a 3-hour slot with commercials; this version was shown on the Fox network (and, consequently, KMSB) in 2001. NBC showed it uncut on April 9, 1995 in a four-hour telecast hosted by the film's star, Julie Andrews. ABC (and, thusly, KGUN 9) has held the broadcast rights to the film since 2002 and is currently showing the film uncut. Oh, and speaking of commercials, the commercial breaks on this were paused out; the only one that seemed remotely intact was an ad for Oldsmobile and not even THAT was shown all the way. Returning to the topic at hand, we get a rather innocuous romantic scene, which is frozen upon for a few seconds. After a few moments of garbled audio, we finally get back to our movie around the toward the end of the forty-second video.