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It happens more often than you would think. It also depends on the set-up. If they have an audio assistant or even someone like a floor manager could adjust the mics. But for this kind of shambles, who knows. There should be an audio mixer or someone in the control room or gallery monitoring the output. If a presenter is savvy enough they might be able to do it themselves. It likely happens when there are too few people on shift. There are so many things to try and remember and prioritise it is easily done. The main thing is to realise it has happened and try and prevent it from happening againYou wonder how that can happen? There are a couple of people who post on here who seem to have technical knowledge of how television studios works, but as a layman, it seems to be the most basic of errors to leave your microphone open during a break. Particularly, if you are then going to sound off in a negative and embarrassing style about what you’ve been not been selling. Was he supposed to turn his own microphone off, or is that somebody in the gallery that does that? Either way somebody doesn’t know what they’re doing, and with embarrassing effect.