Abstract
Conventionally, live television constructs the event by bringing together many spatially dispersed occurrences and articulating them through the electronic mediation of the broadcast. This article discusses one live event - the total solar eclipse in August 1999 - for which this `complex connectivity' at the heart of the event was to prove deeply problematic. In the case of the eclipse, what was at stake was not a set of different but related occurrences but rather the same occurrence - the singular and liminal moment of totality - as it occurred and re-occurred in different places. Caught up in a set of contradictory imperatives - to produce the moment, to deliver to the viewer a sense of `being there' but also to deliver the everywhere of the occasion - television mislaid the event.
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