Seconds before the end
TV interruption outrages German sports fans
The German women sensationally won the gold medal in 3x3 basketball at the Olympics on Monday. The fact that the TV broadcast of the exciting semi-final against Canada (16:15) was interrupted shortly before the end caused outrage among our neighbors.
ZDF had broadcast the match between the Germans and the Canadians on Monday evening. 25 seconds before the end of the game, the channel first switched to advertising and then to the news program "heute". Sports fans were up in arms on social networks, with most of them not making it to the live stream on the internet in time and thus missing the crucial seconds.
"We regret that the viewers in the main program missed the last basket for the German basketball team's victory and entry into the final," ZDF sports director Yorck Polus was quoted as saying by dpa.
ZDF speaks of "mistake" in retrospect
They had wanted to broadcast the news program "at the usual time" at 7 p.m. "due to the volatile global political situation". Canceling the broadcast of the German semi-final was "a mistake", according to Polus. Nevertheless, ZDF broadcast the final against Spain (17:16) in full.
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