# Did anyone else notice CBS gave away the Survivor winner by mistake?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2003, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-notice-cbs-gave-away-the-survivor-winner-by-mistake/174666 "2003-05-12T11:43:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NoGoodNamesLeft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoGoodNamesLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoGoodNamesLeft)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-notice-cbs-gave-away-the-survivor-winner-by-mistake/174666/1 "2003-05-12T11:43:59Z")
Before Jeff read the votes at the live show, the crew was supposed to bring up (presumably) the “LIVE” graphic on the screen, instead they brought up a graphic that read “Jenna’s Family”, giving a huge hint as to the winner well before the votes were counted. I’d like to know if this was cut-out of the west coast feed… ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-notice-cbs-gave-away-the-survivor-winner-by-mistake/174666/2 "2003-05-12T11:48:17Z")
I totally missed that actually. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-notice-cbs-gave-away-the-survivor-winner-by-mistake/174666/3 "2003-05-12T11:57:50Z")
I noticed that as well. I figured they had lots of shots/captions queued (like Butch’s hometown), so I didn’t put any thought into it. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-notice-cbs-gave-away-the-survivor-winner-by-mistake/174666/4 "2003-05-12T11:58:22Z")
I just noticed that you could read the last couple letters of Jenna’s name when Rob held up his vote to explain his (unrevealed) vote to the camera. You could see right through the parchment. ---
**Author:** ![NoGoodNamesLeft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoGoodNamesLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoGoodNamesLeft)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-notice-cbs-gave-away-the-survivor-winner-by-mistake/174666/5 "2003-05-12T12:07:26Z")
I figure the crew was a bit frazzled b/c they had to move the show from Central Park to the ES Theatre on a last minute change due to weather. At first commercial break, they missed cue and held on a shot of Jeff’s back for a good couple of seconds as he thought they had cut away to commercial. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-notice-cbs-gave-away-the-survivor-winner-by-mistake/174666/6 "2003-05-12T15:56:14Z")
I DID notice the blooper as well, and I was actually looking for Jenna’s family (and not seeing her, of course). I simply thought it was a mix up at the time. But after Jenna was proclaimed the winner and we DID see Jenna’s family with the caption underneath…I realized they had given it away. ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-notice-cbs-gave-away-the-survivor-winner-by-mistake/174666/7 "2003-05-12T16:00:53Z")
Damn character generators. Yep, we noticed it, but didn’t automatically think that meant Jenna won. I did see that Rob had voted for her through the parchment. I wonder if he guessed that Matt blew the final challenge on purpose?