I worked on the telecast.



I studied in the third grade of university and worked at night. My position was called “Grafstation Operator (Assistant Publisher)”. That meant that I was responsible for all the computer graphics on the screen: all those debit tasks, money amounts, phones, super-game and more.



It all happened as follows. Two hours before the show, I should have been in the studio. The preparation for the air began, the tasks were prepared, either real on the board, or with the help of computer graphics. This is usually done by the publisher. I was just stupidly striking the necessary words in the prow. There were usually two shows at night. Two hours and one hour in the morning. At 2: 00 on the MSK starts the broadcast and went, went. The editor in her ear tells her what, how and when to pay attention and if it is necessary to change the subject. The editor also has a software that shows statistics on calls per minute.



I never thought he named so many people. There were up to 500 calls per minute. On average, a minute of conversation cost a caller 60 rubles. But the system was designed in such a way that the respondent told the viewer that there are a lot of calls now, you are in line, stay on the line and we will take you out. And so until the caller’s money ended. Probably an interesting question is who are these fools, who are being released and they call the wrong version of the answer, although it is obvious. It was me and a couple of other guys from the studio. We went to the neighboring room to the telephone operators and by internal communication "called" to the studio and said the obvious wrong answer. At that moment, the number of calls jumped! As a result, when no tricks helped, the game had to merge and start the next one. The team was called to search for a winner. She pressed a button in her softin and she was illuminated by the random numbers of 10 people who called for this broadcast. She called everybody back and the first person who took the phone and called the correct answer became the winner. He was actually broadcast and asked to name the word. He received a guaranteed prize of 3-10 thousand rubles and was offered to play a super-game. The super game usually consisted of guessing 3 of the 16 possible cells in which the stars were hidden. I saw in advance which cells were winning and could change them. My task was to make sure that people didn’t guess them. Sometimes, on average, once a year or two came the installation that we play honestly before winning and the super prize was also really given. Started a new game with a new task and it all repeated in a circle until the end of the show. On average, for a two-hour broadcast, the company raised about 3 lams of rubles or more.



Simultaneously, there were a series of puzzles that predicted the fate of confident poor people. There is a separate song about them.