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...cast of producers began hiring brighter stars. Which isn't to say the shows got better: Gloria Estefan, Brian Boitano and Dorothy Hamill made a particularly mismatched lineup in 1992, as did Michael Jackson and a group of 3,500 children the following year. The show's most memorable glitch, of course, wasn't a casting choice: Janet Jackson's infamous wardrobe snafu in 2004 sparked an FCC crackdown on racy content and prompted networks to go to tape delay for major live events...
...perfect. Powers, a senior computer science major at the Extension School, broke a guitar string in the middle of a song. He had a spare, but he didn’t realize that guitar’s jack was broken. He finished the set with the broken string. The glitch did not prevent Start, Go! from securing the prize.The same thing happened to Elephantom. Pianist, songwriter and secondary vocalist Matthew A. Aucoin ’12 said when the group’s guitarist’s string broke, they had to beg the audience for a replacement guitar. Finally...
...embarrassing computer glitch in 2002 sealed the consortium's fate; it was shuttered soon after and replaced by a different set of pollsters that serve the National Election News Pool. But this organization suffered its own scandal in 2004 when exit poll data was leaked online around midday on Election Day, prompting bloggers to declare John Kerry the presumptive winner. In 2006, the pollsters began quarantining representatives of the NEP to prevent such leaks from occurring...
...polling stations and complicate the process even more. "I'm always nervous," says Sheldon Gawiser, director of elections for NBC News, who has worked at the network for 40 years. "So many things can happen. The weather can be a mess. The computers and graphics can have a glitch. But quite frankly, I think we're really prepared. People will get mad at me for calling the primaries 'practice', but they just went on and on. We've gotten a lot of preparation from those races...
...Associated Press formed a polling consortium to cut costs, but this proved disastrous in 2000, when it declared the race for Al Gore around 8 p.m., switched to George W. Bush by 2 a.m. and left the race at "too close to call" by 4 a.m. An embarrassing computer glitch in 2002 prompted a switch to the NEP, which surveys early voters by phone, uses confidential questionnaires in the field and employs a diverse group of pollsters to ensure an accurate count. A leak of NEP data in 2004, however, prompted the creation of the current quarantine system...