It was a standard Sunday morning in Studio 31 at NPR's central command in Washington, D.C. End of the week Edition makers were stacking documents for broadcast and making last-minute music button determinations, while engineers tried out a sound that was going to go out to many stations the nation over. Abruptly, not exactly an hour prior to a broadcast appointment on June 13, the sound became out of reach on account of a specialized disappointment. Interchanges channels that NPR staff use to get in touch with one another and part stations were likewise disturbed.

"Throughout the long term we have vanquished an assortment of specialized difficulties during live transmission," reviewed chief maker Sarah Oliver, who has been at Weekend Edition since 1997. "Yet, that morning resembled nothing possible." Eric Marrapodi, who runs NPR's live unique writing computer programs, was requiring his child to a finish of-year baseball party when he saw a message about the emergency and raced to the studio.

"At the point when I came in, it was an unadulterated emergency," Marrapodi said. "Who would we be able to get on the air and Nothing more needs to be said." It was the most noticeably awful transmission emergency anybody at Weekend Edition could recollect, essentially since a Saturday in the mid-1990s when, as per veteran show maker Ned Wharton, "somebody cut through all the reel-to-reel tapes," incorporating one with "a profile of Captain Kangaroo that somebody buckled down on!"

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