Overview
- Just before 7:30 a.m., ARD’s Morgenmagazin switched a few seconds early from Cologne to the Tagesschau studio in Hamburg.
- Viewers briefly saw Daubner finishing her makeup with a compact and a water bottle on the desk before she noticed the live handover.
- Daubner apologized on air and explained she had not heard the transition without her earpiece, then proceeded to deliver the news.
- Co-host Till Nassif quipped, “There is still some tidying up in Hamburg,” and acknowledged the handover came a bit early.
- German media covered the moment as a light, human slip in live TV, noting Daubner’s earlier benign on-air moments in 2023 and 2024.