It's Always Broadcast Day! (segment)

### Cast

Callum Armstrong, Oliver Beckwith, Elliot Evans, Russell Johnson, Linus Ma, Sean Montgomery, Jailen Modi, Santiago Sanz

### Watch Page

YouTube

**It's Always Broadcast Day!** (often stylized without the '!') is a segment from *Channel -12 News* that was released on February 4th, 2022 as the final segment of the second season, being the series finale. The segment is a grand musical number reflecting on the past and looking to the future of the show and crew, as one final hurrah and ode to the series. Prior to being released on the Oliver B. Productions YouTube channel, it was broadcast to Abbey Park High School on January 25th, 2022 as part of the final broadcast of the series.

## Outline

The segment begins disguised as a live portion of the show, with Oliver and Jailen sitting at the news desk. They question whether the group has any more segments left to air, before Russell walks to the desk, revealing they have nothing remaining that is school appropriate. Slowly, each member of the group joins the anchors at the desk, surprised that the series is finally over due to a lack of segments. After Elliot remarks that a chapter of their lives is ending, the video style switches away from the live broadcast into a more cinematic style, arcing to reveal Callum holding the broadcast camera, asking why this has to be the end. The group argues that there is nothing more to do as the semester is ending, while Callum and eventually Oliver convince them that they can continue to make content for people to enjoy together, even if it isn't under the "Channel -12 banner", and that as long as they stick together, nothing can get in their way. Callum then launches into a musical number, with Oliver, Sean and Linus joining in. The song is a reflection and lampooning of the group's production process and the series as a whole, ending with the entire group singing "It's always broadcast day!", implying that long after the show ends, the spirit of broadcast day will stay alive.

### Song

Callum, Sean, Oliver, Linus, Group

Over 15,000 scripts to try

To mess up and later shelf

Our insistency

For inconsistency

Makes all the students laugh like hell

Oh the size and length of skits and ads

For an hour or two they’ll run

We’ll keep writing them

'Till all our brains are stems

'Cause every day's broadcast day for our art

The world doesn't get our vision

They think non-sequiturs are a sin

But it's their loss for they've

Got no spare time to waste

This is something I know we can all embrace

We're on a quest

To address all Sean’s requests

Please understand the kind of stuff they try to get us to make

We have been blessed

No time to rest

We've got a lot to address

We don't need sleep

This is better anyways

It’s always broadcasting day!

**Santiago:** I don’t know guys, do you really think we can keep this up?

**Callum:** Are you kidding? We just got the formula down!

Might I suggest an ad to start things off

Then moving on to Rob P. Steal

A murder mystery, altering history

Or whatever's left on reel

A Jojo reference, excessive violence

Now watch somebody go insane

Despite Visca’s pleas, we’ll break someone's knees

Do what we can to entertain

Please tell me that you understand

**Elliot:** What are you asking me for? I'm just the cameraman!

**Russell:** I think that writing was first-rate!

**Jailen:** As long as it makes me look great.

**Santiago:** We're gonna turn this in late...

We shouldn't dwell

We've got nothing to sell

With all our heads combined we'll pump out a new bit everyday

It's so swell these extra scripts and skits are all piling up well

Every student will be chanting all our names

It’s always broadcast day!

We must confess

We might be slightly obsessed

How could we not be

Have you seen these

We’ve got no shame to claim

If you're down and feeling blue

We might drop in around you

There's a solution for all that pollution in your brain

It’s always broadcast day!

## Background

The segment idea was originally conceived by Callum Armstrong, being a grand musical number to bookend the series. The song itself was written collaboratively by Callum and Sean Montgomery as a parody of the song *"*Stupid Nintendo Games" from the video *Borderline Forever* by Scott the Woz, a frequent influence on Channel -12. The song was recorded over several days and produced by Tyler Bruce, a friend of Oliver Beckwith's. The video was then filmed over two days at Abbey Park High School and edited by Sean and Oliver.

## Soundtrack

* **"It's Always Broadcast Day!" -** Performed as part of the segment. (Cast of Channel -12 News)

## Trivia

* During the original broadcasting of the segment, the segment was hard cut to after a close-up shot of Oliver Beckwith on-air to disguise the fact that it was pre-recorded.
* Many lyrics from the song were references to the real-life production process of the series:
	+ *Over 15,000 scripts to try, to mess up and later shelf*: Countless scripts for segments were left on the cutting room floor for various reasons and were never filmed or aired.
	+ *Our insistency for inconsistency*: Because many segments were filmed across multiple days, continuity errors in segments are frequent.
	+ *Oh the size and length of skits and ads, for an hour or two they’ll run*: While the class was instructed to make short, 90-second max videos to air, Channel -12 frequently went over this time to tell longer stories.
	+ *We're on a quest to address all Sean’s requests*: Sean frequently conceived segment ideas that were high-concept and difficult or impossible to complete.
	+ The entirety of the third verse references segments shown onscreen.
	+ *Despite Visca’s pleas, we’ll break someone's knees*: The course teacher had a rule against showing violence onscreen, which the group often broke.
* The list of "actual ideas Sean has had" that quickly scrolls by does, in fact, contain actual ideas suggested by Sean that were never filmed.
* While the segment is mostly an homage to the second season, one reference to season 1 does exist: During the lyric "Every student will be chanting all our names", the background of the scene is the same one used to portray Heaven in the Judgement Day segments.
* During the very last lyric, the background shows a blurred time-lapse of every segment from season 2 as well as *Rob P. Steals Christmas*.