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Shouldn't this become List of notable open-microphone gaffes or something such? The actual article-type content isn't much past 100 words, followed by a whole lot of trivia.
And FWIW, a couple of decades ago I'd occasionally hear a camera director refer to "a hot mic," but much more commonly it was floor techs who'd call a microphone overloading its input "hot."
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The result of the move request was: Page moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm ( talk) 00:45, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Microphone gaffe → Hot mic – "Hot mic" is a very widely used term in the news, while "microphone gaffe" is much less common (and personally I do not think I have ever heard it). For some evidence, see that hot mic has 55,300 news results on Google, while "microphone gaffe" has just 17,500. DemonDays64 ( talk) 22:43, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
"a microphone that is switched on, especially without the speaker realizing" according to Cambridge Dictionary, and "microphone turned on talking to other players for a long period of time, without push to talk" according to Urban Dictionary. Ponken ( talk) 12:08, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
This article was nominated for deletion on 13 November 2008 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep. |
A fact from Hot mic appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 1 September 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:
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This article has not yet been rated on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. |
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Shouldn't this become List of notable open-microphone gaffes or something such? The actual article-type content isn't much past 100 words, followed by a whole lot of trivia.
And FWIW, a couple of decades ago I'd occasionally hear a camera director refer to "a hot mic," but much more commonly it was floor techs who'd call a microphone overloading its input "hot."
Weeb Dingle (
talk) 17:49, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Page moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm ( talk) 00:45, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Microphone gaffe → Hot mic – "Hot mic" is a very widely used term in the news, while "microphone gaffe" is much less common (and personally I do not think I have ever heard it). For some evidence, see that hot mic has 55,300 news results on Google, while "microphone gaffe" has just 17,500. DemonDays64 ( talk) 22:43, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
"a microphone that is switched on, especially without the speaker realizing" according to Cambridge Dictionary, and "microphone turned on talking to other players for a long period of time, without push to talk" according to Urban Dictionary. Ponken ( talk) 12:08, 22 August 2021 (UTC)