Lauren Podell, a reporter at Detroit’s NBC affiliate WDIV, didn’t know she was live on the air on Wednesday morning, and accidentally expressed her frustrations with equipment by dropping an F-bomb.
“I don’t have IFB, I don’t know when we’re going, neither does Jim, I can’t get this f–king in there,” she exclaims when anchors cut to the scene of a historic downtown district ravaged by a fire.
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It wasn’t her fault, though. IFB, or interruptible feedback — the very thing Podell was complaining about not having — is the system that feeds the cues to the on-air talent’s earpiece.
The anchors kept their cool and quickly apologized on the air. Neither the station or Podell has commented on Facebook or Twitter — common communication tools for these types of incidents.
This was certainly not the career-defining F-bomb that probably still haunts former North Dakota news anchor A.J. Clemente, but it’s still amusing enough for connoisseurs of cursing.
