The TV broadcaster Sky missed the end of the transfer window and could not broadcast live - the TV people were completely powerless.
Munich - The last day of the transfer window * is unpredictable every year, there are still spectacular twists and turns on the home straight: Deadline Day!
The sports channel Sky * celebrates the event in which the football fans sit spellbound in front of the screens.
Upcoming changes or fixed transfers are reported for a whole day, and the design is traditionally kept in yellow.
Shortly before the end of the transfer, however, the events also rolled over at the TV broadcaster.
Sky was no longer on the air around 6 p.m.
The transfer window in Germany ended at 6 p.m., and the broadcaster usually initiates a countdown.
Deadline day: Sky missed the transfer deadline - fire alarm paralyzed TV channels
"We missed the closing of the transfer window," said presenter Laura Lutz to the viewers a few minutes later when it went live again.
A fire alarm was triggered shortly beforehand, which is why all employees were forced to leave the building in Unterföhring.
"The keyword hot news was taken too seriously," joked Lutz.
"Everything is different, so we still have to catch up on a lot," said the moderator and at the same time gave the all-clear for the fire alarm.
Then, one after the other, the missed transfers were processed and presented to the audience.
For example, the Spanish attacking player Samu Castillejo from AC Milan should switch at the last minute to the Bundesliga * bottom-up Hertha BSC.
“The colleagues first reported that when we were downstairs at the fire brigade alarm,” apologized transfer expert Maximilian Bielefeld.
In fact, the change did not go through, as Bielefeld later explained.
Deadline day: Sky has to cancel the live interview with the transfer guru - fire alarm too loud
Shortly before the involuntary interruption, there had already been a bizarre moment in the studio. The Italian transfer guru Gianluca Di Marzio was switched on live when the fire alarm suddenly went off and could be heard loudly. The conversation was so disturbed by the siren that Sky-Mann Bielefeld had to break the switch prematurely. Di Marzio was evidently anything but happy about the abrupt termination. You can also follow all transfer news for the deadline day in the ticker on tz.de.
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