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I’m watching a pirated version of AEW Collision right now. And I’m not sure where the source is from, but it doesn’t start with the production broadcast.
It starts with Brian Danialson walking up the ramp, and Justin Roberts says to the live crowd to give everyone a few minutes, and they’ll start collision soon.
Then Tony Khan comes out and thanks everybody for coming out, blah blah blah.
But the weird thing is, you can hear Tony Schivone thanking someone. Repeatedly thanking them. At one point he says “No no, thank YOU for your hospitality. We really appriciate it.”
And not in a sarcastic way. I don’t know what it’s in reference to, or who he’s talking to, but it sounds sincere.
Then he asks “Ok, and do we have collision notes? Oh, ok, well I don’t have them out here, can we get a few copies out here?”
It’s just strange to hear all this. It’s like someone just captured the feed off their production truck.
Edit: Tony has asked for a pen.
Edit 2: “Yeah, we’re kinda working without a net out here. We’ll see how it goes.”
And then the feed goes black, 30 seconds later the production feed starts.
Source was awesome. I lost it before the episode started.
Usually I grab the TNT feed myself (which seems to run fine) but on a few occasions when I’ve grabbed the Fite copy I’ve seen similar things to what you’re describing, including a week or two ago. Whoever’s in the truck hits the wrong button and sets the wrong feed, or starts the broadcast at the wrong time and ya get a peek inside the production.
WWE did something similar a month or two ago. Was one of the long backstage shots involving Adam Pierce walking/running towards/into the Gorilla position in a hurry (I think on one of the initial ‘The Wyatt 6 are debuting today/next week’ shows). Shot cut as he entered the curtain iirc but another feed showed him running in and then 2-3 others said good job to him and shook his hand and such for doing a good job with the promo and such.
What I like about this feed, is “We’re going to commercial! Stay with us in picture-in-picture!”
2 seconds pass…
And then they continue the broadcast production with commentary. They essentially just lied about going to commercial.
Then about 2 minutes later, they just burst out with “WELCOME BACK TO COLLISION!!!”
And I’m like “Oh, guess that’s where the TNT feed joins back”.
Sounds like you got the FITE feed. It has much better commentary purely because during PIP they rip in to each other.