Just over 20 minutes into the first half of the Cameroon against Mauritius game there was a blip on the telly and off went the images of lumbering Lions at the Ahmadou Ahidjo stadium in Yaounde. In came pictures of studio guests and presenters rushing to their seats for an impromptu chit-chat.
The discussion went on for more than 30 minutes - ranging from Orange Cameroon's latest products to the absolute need for more international friendly matches for Cameroon.
But no one really explained to the millions of Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) viewers in Cameroon and elsewhere why we were unable to see the rest of the first-half of the game.
When the pictures from €nhthe stadium returned to our screens Cameroon were leading 1-0 in the second-half of the game.
There were no commentaries from the field so the studio presenters took over. One of them saw Henri Bedimo everywhere on the pitch whereas the Montpellier left-back had been replaced by Leonard (Leonie) Kweuke who had scored the curtain raiser.
OLD MACHINES
Transmission failures occur everywhere but CRTV seems to have made them the norm in their live broadcasts.
A fellow Cameroonian watching the game in Dakar asked me (as an ex-CRTV man) why in this 21st Century the national TV station should have problems transmitting a game taking place barely 5km from its production centre!
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