After being deprived of the antenna because of some health concerns, Laurent Luyat is back on France 3, to the delight of viewers. This Saturday August 20, 2022, the host was thus at the controls of the broadcast broadcast of the last evening of the 2022 European championships in Munich (Germany).
Around 8:40 p.m., he had to deal with a major technical bug, depriving him of sound for a while. The viewers thus heard a strange crackling, instead the voice of the presenter, then a total cut of the sound. Since the image quality was not affected, they were still able to see the men’s pole vault final and the athletics final.
Unable to communicate, Laurent Luyat then improvised a way to address viewers: write what he wants to say on a sheet of paper! “Sound cut, sorry” he then wrote on a sheet before brandishing it in front of the cameras. A few moments later, when the women’s 100m was about to start, the host then wrote: “a matter of a few minutes (seconds)”. Fortunately, the sound came back at 8:44 p.m. and Laurent Luyat then exclaimed: “So, there you go, I think it’s working”. Happy that the problem was solved, the journalist then declared: “Thank you to the whole technical sound team. Sorry, really, for this cut. It’s true that the day was complicated with terrible bad weather.”
The host’s little improvisation seduced Internet users who reacted strongly on Twitter: “Laurent Luyat, the best”, “The A4 sheet scribbled by Laurent Luyat to announce the sound cut is magic”, “Our new speaker”. , “I found this moment even better than the first jump of Duplantis”, “Ptdrrrrrrrrr, but it’s really iconic. […] I’m bent in two, there.” can we read among the reactions.
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