A BBC package on today's GERS figures froze earlier, cutting off presenter Douglas Fraser's counterpoint that Wales' deficit is significantly higher than Scotland's.
The figures were the headline news for Reporting Scotland's lunchtime show.
The GERS data shows Scotland benefitted from a £3 billion increase in onshore revenues in the last year to reach £61.3bn, the fastest growth since 2010-11.
READ MORE: GERS: Scotland's public spending deficit down by more than £1bn
But Unionists have been desperate to paint the numbers in a bad light, with Better Together figures being wheeled out to provide their annual economic analysis - the type of analysis that usually consists of "too wee, too small, too stupid".
The BBC package started with a summary of what the GERS figures mean from presenter Fraser, then cut to a comment from Finance Secretary Derek Mackay.
Mackay pointed out that with the "powers of independence, we'd be able to make the right choices to grow our economy even faster, grow our revenues and reduce that notional estimated deficit".
The package then cut to Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, who said the "dividend is the £2000 more per man, woman and child that is spent in Scotland, and that's as a benefit of being part of the United Kingdom.
"We benefit, you know ... the sum of the parts of the United Kingdom are greater than the whole, and I believe we benefit enormously from our membership."
The clip then froze on Jack's face for 14 seconds, before cutting back to Fraser in the studio. He said: ".. deficit for Wales, is nearly three times bigger."
The journalist is referring to the Welsh deficit being larger than Scotland's at nearly £20 billion, but without already knowing this information the comment would be useless.
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Presenter Catriona Shearer then said: "Okay Douglas, many thanks for that. Apologies for cutting Douglas off there."
So there you have it. Technical issues managed to cut off a journalist explaining Scotland does not have the worst deficit of the UK's four nations.
And that's something you might be likely to believe if you've seen today's tweet from the Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson, who claimed Scotland's deficit is the highest in Europe ...
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