This article examines the interruptive nature of “media events” as identified by Dayan and Kat (1992), that is, the idea that events broadcast live on TV interrupt the course of viewers’ ordinary activities and reconfigure TV programme schedules. Rather than seeing interruption as an intrinsic property of live events, this article examines the broadcasting practices through which operators of a TV control-room synchronise the time of the event with the time of its broadcasting. It shows how the event is subjected to the TV schedule and its actors bound by the joint expectation of the arrival of the signal. The methodological approach of this article, inspired by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, consists in bringing TV programmes back to the lived and contextual dimension of the co-present interactions that constitute them. It is based on a video analysis of the interactions in a control-room during live TV broadcasts of football matches.