It's Always Broadcast Day! (segment)

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

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.

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.