Slippery glitch with SRF subtitles
Swiss television channel SRF added lewd subtitles to Saturday's "Sport Aktuell" program. Words such as "cocksucker" and "Bumsmäuschen" were used. SRF is talking about a technical problem. The cause is being investigated.
Swiss television has made an embarrassing mistake with the subtitles for the program "Sport Aktuell", as Radio Top announced in a press release on Monday. Radio Top discovered that the subtitles for the hearing impaired for last Saturday's "Sport Aktuell" program contained sentences such as "Cocksucker! Stupid wanker!", "Now it's off to the nipples." or "Do you know the term 'Bumsmäuschen'?" were displayed.
"In fact, we had a little mishap last Saturday. The subtitles were part of a movie that was shown on SRF 2. For unknown reasons, the subtitles were also broadcast on SRF 1, where the program 'Sport Aktuell' was running," says Gion Linder, Head of Subtitling at Swisstxt, to Radio Top. The film on SRF 2 is the comedy "Jungfrau (40), männlich, sucht".
The subtitle mishap at Swiss Radio and Television SRF has apparently not led to a storm of indignation among those directly affected: As SRF said on Monday when asked by SDA, no reactions were received from the hearing-impaired.
(Screenshot: Radio Top)
