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Power failures at UEFA's International Broadcast Centre in Vienna interrupted coverage of last night's semi-final match between Germany and Turkey.
The BBC, one of many broadcasters affected by the loss of the UEFA host broadcaster's feed, put up a BBC One fault caption and switched to Radio 5 Live audio during two outages: one for seven minutes at 57:15 into the match, and a second that started in the 76th minute prevented viewers from seeing Germany's Miroslav Klose score a goal.
"All countries across the world receiving the feed lost pictures and sound," said a BBC spokesperson. "We had people ringing up to ask what had happened, but it was more reaction than complaints."
It is understood that viewers in Austria suffered more outages than were experienced in the UK.
"The television signal in the International Broadcast Centre for the Germany-Turkey game has been interrupted several times in the second half due to technical reasons which are currently being investigated, in particular to evaluate the impact of the violent electrical storm over Vienna at that time," said UEFA.
The BBC, one of many broadcasters affected by the loss of the UEFA host broadcaster's feed, put up a BBC One fault caption and switched to Radio 5 Live audio during two outages: one for seven minutes at 57:15 into the match, and a second that started in the 76th minute prevented viewers from seeing Germany's Miroslav Klose score a goal.
"All countries across the world receiving the feed lost pictures and sound," said a BBC spokesperson. "We had people ringing up to ask what had happened, but it was more reaction than complaints."
It is understood that viewers in Austria suffered more outages than were experienced in the UK.
"The television signal in the International Broadcast Centre for the Germany-Turkey game has been interrupted several times in the second half due to technical reasons which are currently being investigated, in particular to evaluate the impact of the violent electrical storm over Vienna at that time," said UEFA.
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