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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Newhart]]'': Dick and Joanna are both sick in bed, arguing over whether to watch her soap opera or his basketball game. Their fight over the remote causes him to miss a key play and her to miss a character's long-secret identity. A character in the soap even says, "Now that you've told me, we'll never speak of it again."

** Of course, she eventually gets to see more aliens than most people ever will, due to traveling with the Doctor. Not that {{spoiler|[[Laser-Guided Amnesia|she knows it, as the Doctor had to wipe her memory so she wouldn't die.]] As such, she still thinks she's missed everything.}} She even complains to this effect in "The End of Time".

* ''[[Scrubs]]'' has one in which Dr. Cox, stuck on a late shift due to hospital politics (he screwed with Kelso's treadmill), wants no one to tell him the score of the basketball game. The Janitor tries to do it by arranging everyone outside his window into the shape of the score, and when Ted the lawyer tries to tell him, it cuts to a shot of Ted's tie shoved in his mouth. Of course, {{spoiler|it's ruined by Dr. Kelso, who tapes over the game with a message telling Cox the score and reminding him not to mess around with his treadmill}}.

== [[Music]] ==

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* During [[The BBC]]'s broadcast of the ''Live Aid'' concerts in 1985, they cut away from Santana's set to broadcast a live interview with Phil Collins, who was flying from the Wembley gig to the Philadelphia gig on Concorde. And ''then'' the BBC decided to cut the interview short just when it was getting interesting, because they didn't think the sound quality was good enough.

* There's the infamous [[MTV]]/[[VH-1]] Live 8 debacle. The networks would keep cutting away to bubble-headed VJs and awkward commercials for zit cream right in the middle of acts like [[Pink Floyd]] (whose performance was their first together in ''24 years'') as well as [[The Who]]! VH1, at least, made an effort to correct it by airing almost-entirely commercial-free music the following Saturday.

* The network didn't cut away from it, but another famous example was Franco Harris' "Immaculate Reception" to win the 1972 AFC Divisional Playoff game for the Pittsburgh Steelers over the Oakland Raiders. The owner of the Steelers, Art Rooney, missed the play because he left the owners box early to be waiting for his (at the time, losing) team in the locker room after the game, and was riding the elevator down with no idea what happened when he heard the stadium explode in cheers. So Rooney himself is an example of cutting away early and missing one of the best plays ever in professional football.

* In 1960, Pittsburgh Pirates announcer Bob Prince was calling the World Series for NBC. With Game 7 tied in the ninth inning, the network sent him down to the team's clubhouse for postgame interviews. Prince was walking through the stadium when he heard the crowd explode with a roar, but he didn't get a chance to hear what had happened. When Prince reached the clubhouse, he started randomly interviewing players, and when he came to Bill Mazeroski, all he asked him was how it felt to be a member of the world champions before moving on to the next player. It wasn't until hours later, when Prince asked his wife how the game ''had'' ended anyway, that he learned Mazeroski had won the Series with a walk-off home run.

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