A technical glitch abruptly cut off an interview with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday’s edition of ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
The network was showing a tape of Clinton’s interview with Cynthia McFadden — promoting a “Nightline” story, when the sound cut off just as McFadden was beginning a question.
Viewers heard instead voices from a confused control room, with one producer saying, “What is going on?” The network cut to McFadden live in the studio as she tried to explain what was said in the interview.
“Every day we do a live, two-hour broadcast with hundreds of moving parts and thousands of pieces of electronics,” said Bridgette Maney, show spokeswoman. “One of those critical pieces failed this morning, the audio board. It happens intermittently to every live broadcast on television. The problem was quickly fixed and we moved on.”