Match of the Day 2: Newcastle subtitle error leaves BBC red-faced
An "unfortunate errors" in subtitling caused newcastle united being labelled "black and white scum" at some stage in the bbc's suit of the day 2 programme.
Commentator man mowbray stated liverpool's daniel sturridge had scored 5 goals against the black and whites.
But software program pressured the phrase "comma", spoken with the aid of a subtitler, and placed "scum" into the on-display screen textual content.
The bbc said the mistake become noticed and corrected at once.
It become observed by using football author paul brown, who tweeted a screenshot from the show on sunday night time, saying "motd2 subtitler obviously now not a newcastle fan."
At some point of the observation guy mowbray stated: "sturridge has scored in all four of his preceding most desirable league starts offevolved at newcastle. For the reds against the black and whites, he boasts five desires in 5 appearances."
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Soccer remark is re-voiced for subtitles through someone referred to as a "respeaker".
A bbc spokeswoman said: "our stay subtitling carrier is commonly very accurate and makes our content a great deal extra reachable, but there are times when unfortunate mistakes occur.
"in this occasion the error changed into spotted and corrected without delay."
The magpies went on to attract 1-1 inside the greatest league domestic sport.
Match of the Day 2: Newcastle subtitle error leaves BBC red-faced
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December 24, 2019
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