Cheng Gang's face was slightly stiff. He lowered his head and glanced at the iPad in his hand, only to find that the spoken script in the iPad had become garbled and it was impossible to decipher the content inside.
"ok... we have encountered some small problems here, please wait a moment, Mr. Bob."
Cheng Gang looked a little embarrassed. He waved to Chen Mang, pointed at the teleprompter and said, "There's something wrong, Director Chen. The teleprompter seems to be broken!"
There is no real live broadcast in China. Generally speaking, there is a delay time for live broadcast, which is about thirty seconds.
In other words, what the audience in front of the TV actually sees is footage from thirty seconds ago, leaving a buffer time for any unexpected situations that occur during the live broadcast.
As soon as Cheng Gang's signal was sent out, Chen Mang stood up immediately and asked the director next to him to switch the signal.
"Director Chen, there is something wrong with the teleprompter. Can it be fixed immediately?"
Cheng Gang said with a gloomy expression.
A teleprompter error is a very serious broadcast accident. This kind of broadcast accident may not happen once a year. He didn't expect that it would happen to him.
This is really bad luck. Airbus is one of the two top civil aviation manufacturers in the world. Vice President Mr. Bob is one of the very prominent executives in the company. If he hadn't intentionally come forward to explain to maintain the safety of his own aircraft, In terms of performance and reliability, it is still difficult for CCTV to interview him via video link.
It was not easy to interview him, and of course there should be no stumbling when communicating. Cheng Gang's standard English that instantly surpassed the general public in China came in handy.
Chinese people generally speak English with an accent, which is called chiglish. However, because Cheng Gang has the experience of studying abroad, he does speak English very fluently. This is one of the reasons why Chen Mang asked him to be the substitute host today. When I thought about it, I would encounter such an unfortunate thing.
As for meeting him at some Asian forum and inviting him to the studio? It's just that Cheng Gang has always been accustomed to using the method of "showing gold to his face", and he doesn't have half of the credit here.
"I wonder, are there any special characters that appear on the teleprompter?"
Chen Mang immediately called the technician and asked him to quickly restart the teleprompter.
He glanced at the document in the director's desk, and sure enough he saw that there seemed to be a few special words in it. It didn't look like English, but more like pinyin with a tone. It was probably because these special characters caused the prompt. The system of the device cannot be recognized and crashes.
"Special characters? I remembered it. There seemed to be a few French words in my previous interview transcript. Can't these be displayed as well?"
Cheng Gang frowned, seeming to remember something, and said.
He shrugged, spread his hands and said, "It's not my fault. The iPad could still display it during the rehearsal, but now it can't... I said that the new system that the station spent tens of millions on actually doesn't even understand French words. If it doesn’t show up, I have to go to the buyer to settle the account.”
After hearing Cheng Gang's words, Chen Mang's expression changed instantly.
Go to the buyer to settle accounts? To put it lightly, the settlement of accounts can be discussed later, but what should we do about the current situation
"But, I just reviewed the manuscript. Isn't that interview outline in Chinese?"
Chen Mang frowned and said with some doubts.
Cheng Gang was a little aggrieved and shrugged: "Because Airbus is headquartered in France and Mr. Bob is French, I think it would be more accurate to ask professional questions in French. French is my second foreign language and communication is difficult." There was a problem, so I made a temporary change. Who knew your crappy teleprompter system didn’t support it... Our studio over there supports it.”
Seeing Cheng Gang's appearance, Chen Mang almost exploded.
Isn’t this nonsense? Cheng Gang was originally on a foreign language channel. How could he work if the teleprompter there didn’t support foreign languages? But this is a domestic social news studio. Even if a foreign language appears, it will always be in English. Who would have nothing to do with debugging French words? Can it work
"Then can you remember the interview outline?"
Chen Mang suppressed his anger and said.
"Of course I don't remember it, Director Chen. That's one or two thousand words. They are all very professional terms. How can I remember it?"
Cheng Gang shook his head, as if it was a matter of course.
"Cheng Gang, don't make your own decisions!"
Seeing Cheng Gang's appearance, Director Chen finally couldn't help it and said loudly.
What was originally a good transoceanic interview was ruined by Chen Mang's clever show off of his language skills. Now the laptop is down and the iPad can't work. How are we going to do the interview this time
Because of the paperless office, the nearest printer has to go to another floor to print. If it took about ten minutes, it would be about the same, but now there are at most ten seconds left, which is not enough time.
"Director Chen, there are still fifteen seconds left in the delay!"
The director on the side looked at the electronic clock on the wall, suddenly panicked, and quickly reminded him.
"Director Chen, why don't you cut off Mr. Bob's connection? Let's go directly to the next step."
Cheng Gang asked tentatively, but it attracted an even bigger reaction from Chen Mang.
"Cut it off? So many viewers across the country have heard your oral broadcast just now, saying that you want to connect to Mr. Bob. Now you are telling me to jump directly to the next link?"
Chen Mang was about to curse. Isn't Chen Gang joking? Dangdang CCTV skipped the comment without counting. Afterwards, the comments on the Internet will definitely explode.
"Director Chen, there are ten seconds left in the delay!"
The director's voice was like a reminder, and he said urgently.
what to do
An anxious look suddenly appeared on Chen Mang's face. Although he has many years of experience, this is the first time he has encountered the collapse of the paperless system. After all, it has not been long since CCTV moved to the new building and he has not experienced too much. test.
Let Cheng Gang act on the spot and chat with Mr. Bob for ten minutes while waiting for the oral script to be delivered
Let’s not talk about what Cheng Gang can chat with professionals for a while. Just talk about how long an entire episode of "Eastern Time and Space" lasts. Let them chat casually for ten minutes. Will the subsequent programs be broadcast? Got it!
"It's terrible this time... I'll keep an eye on the management behind the scenes. The director will insert a commercial for ten minutes, and then send someone to run as fast as possible to print out the speech..."
Chen Mang slumped on the chair and said through gritted teeth, hating Cheng Gang in his heart.
With such a major broadcasting incident happening this time, it is estimated that the entire "Eastern Time and Space" column team will be punished. At least I, the producer, will have to be punished and have my salary deducted. All of this is due to Bai Chenggang's own initiative. Give!
"Director Chen, why don't you let me try? I'll talk to Mr. Bob."
But at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded.
Chen Mang followed the call and saw Nie Cai walking over at some point and volunteered.