Updated at 8:45 p.m PT Tuesday: Fox Sports released a statement explaining the outage that read, “Before the start of the bottom of the fourth inning of tonight’s World Series Game 1, a rare electronics failure caused both the primary and backup generators inside the Fox Sports production compound to lose power. The issue was immediately addressed, although it resulted in the audience missing one at-bat during the time needed to switch to carriage of Major League Baseball’s international feed, powered by a different generator on site. The on-field delay was due to replay capability being lost in both team’s clubhouses. We apologize for the interruption intonight’s coverage and are working to ensure that the remainder of the World Series is broadcast without incident.”
Previously:
Fox lost power during the broadcast of Game 1 of the World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets, leading to a brief interruption of the broadcast Tuesday.
“We apologize for technical difficulties with our #WorldSeries broadcast,” Fox Sports wrote on Twitter. “We are working on fixing the issue ASAP.”
According to the Associated Press, the broadcast outage was caused by the network’s truck losing power on-site at Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium. The U.S. telecast switched to the international feed when
Sports fans on social media tore into the network for the outage, mocking Fox for its inability to correct the issue and comparing it to the power outage during the 2013 Super Bowl.
Read the best of the social media reactions below:
We apologize for technical difficulties with our #WorldSeries broadcast. We are working on fixing the issue ASAP
— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) October 28, 2015
Live look-in at FOX technicians repairing the #WorldSeries power outage. pic.twitter.com/1XgD4RnCdp
— Bryan Wood (@bryanwx) October 28, 2015
This is the worst sports blackout EVER!!!!! COME ON! #WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/m5zcDS9n0U — MLB Memes (@MLBMeme) October 28, 2015
MLB International taking over on FOX. This is their Ron Burgundy at the San Diego Zoo moment. #WorldSeries #LGM
— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) October 28, 2015
The comedy power of just a promo for #TheGrinder crashed the entire #WorldSeries telecast! What will a whole episode do?? — Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) October 28, 2015
It gets better, folks: we’re told that FOX still doesn’t know what happened to its feed. #WorldSeries
— Jeff Rosen (@jeff_rosen88) October 28, 2015
Are we back? No? Yea? We’re back? No? #WorldSeries — BigHeadSports (@BigHeadSports) October 28, 2015
Really enjoying tonight’s #WorldSeries broadcast! pic.twitter.com/PHdBO028pG
— Jason Sparks (@sparksjls) October 28, 2015
The real star of tonight’s #WorldSeries? The person who designed Fox’s “technical difficulties” graphic. Beautiful work. – Chris Vespoli (@ChrisVespoli) October 28, 2015