BBC Breakfast suffered some technical difficulties during the latest live broadcast.

During Thursday’s (July 17) programme, hosts Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty handed over to Mike Bushell, who was reporting live at The Open Championship in Royal Portrush.

However, when the BBC star started to speak to former championship winner Andrew Murray, the pair froze on-screen.

Realising the technical issue, the programme cut back to Charlie and Naga who were quick to address the issue.

Naga said, “Apologies there. We’re having some issues. I don’t think a golf ball has hit our satellite truck to knock it out of service, but we’ll have a look, we’ll have a quick check.”

The BBC host told viewers they’d be getting updates from Royal Portrush throughout the morning as they swiftly moved on to the weather.

However, the problems were quickly resolved, as in a later segment, Mike appeared back on-air to report on the golfing event.

Before the slight technical glitch, Charlie took a cheeky swipe at his co-star for his unusually quiet demeanour.

He commented: “I wouldn’t say that Mike Bushell is one of the loudest broadcasters we have, but this morning he was particularly hushed when we threw to him earlier on, for all the right reasons.”

Naga replied: “Do you know what it was? He was behaving and applying good etiquette.”

When the programme was handed over to Mike, the 59-year-old jokingly took offence at their remarks on him being quieter than usual.

He commented: “There’s some more players coming through, so I will go into my dulcet quiet tones again in a moment.

“You seem surprised that I’m well behaved and showing etiquette and politeness, how dare you?!”

However, it seemed as though his comments were in good jest as he carried on with the broadcast as usual.

During his report, Mike revealed he was taken aback by the scale of the place as he commented: “You’ve got this little town of Royal Portrush on the beautiful North coast, which usually has a population, I’m told, of 11,000.

“It suddenly becomes this sporting metropolis with 287,000 fans here over the next three days, generating £213m for the Northern Ireland economy.”