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RE: CITV is to close - ckck1704 - 01-09-2023

The stream has now been deleted from itvx

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RE: CITV is to close - frasergj - 01-09-2023

Same promo loop is running on the satellite feed (via manual tuning). Interestingly the EPG says the current program is "This is Live 360".

I assume the bug is back on for identification purposes.

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RE: CITV is to close - Kunst - 01-09-2023

(01-09-2023, 09:00 PM)Neil Jones Wrote:  Well that was underwhelming, the closure of CITV.

We weren't expecting nothing else nothing more, I think

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RE: CITV is to close - LouBlu08 - 01-09-2023

(01-09-2023, 09:07 PM)frasergj Wrote:  Same promo loop is running on the satellite feed (via manual tuning). Interestingly the EPG says the current program is "This is Live 360".

I assume the bug is back on for identification purposes.

The bug is there as the channel's been on autopilot for ages.

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RE: CITV is to close - Bennyboy84 - 01-09-2023

On Virgin it is just the standard channel off air screen till 6am which is when the channel closed screen should kick in.

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RE: CITV is to close - Orry Verducci - 01-09-2023

(01-09-2023, 09:32 PM)LouBlu08 Wrote:  The bug is there as the channel's been on autopilot for ages.

Playout doesn't work that way, especially not Morpheus (the system used by ITV Pres/Red Bee). There is no autopilot feature.

There will be a running playlist with the loop in it, and the bug will have been commanded to come on by either a graphic event in that playlist or by an operator manually turning it on.

I can't think of a reason why they've turned it on though. I wouldn't have thought it's for identification as the output is clearly CITV's.

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RE: CITV is to close - interestednovice - 01-09-2023

Is it so kids that might tune in and see it realise it is CITV?

I don’t know, no idea.

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RE: CITV is to close - frasergj - 01-09-2023

(01-09-2023, 10:23 PM)Orry Verducci Wrote:  There will be a running playlist with the loop in it, and the bug will have been commanded to come on by either a graphic event in that playlist or by an operator manually turning it on.

I can't think of a reason why they've turned it on though. I wouldn't have thought it's for identification as the output is clearly CITV's.

That's what I was thinking as the bug didn't appear under after 9pm (after the off-air screen was up on Sky) and a few loops through the promo. So either set to come on late or commanded manually.

Can't think of a reason to have it up apart from identification or something else technical.

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RE: CITV is to close - Jimbo2022 - 02-09-2023

I presume some remember this? CITV started 1973 but it's predecessor was Watch it!

29 December 2980 to end if 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjN38yIBJ50 

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RE: CITV is to close - LouBlu08 - 02-09-2023

(01-09-2023, 10:23 PM)Orry Verducci Wrote:  Playout doesn't work that way, especially not Morpheus (the system used by ITV Pres/Red Bee). There is no autopilot feature.

There will be a running playlist with the loop in it, and the bug will have been commanded to come on by either a graphic event in that playlist or by an operator manually turning it on.

I can't think of a reason why they've turned it on though. I wouldn't have thought it's for identification as the output is clearly CITV's.

Ah, thanks. I really don't know a lot about how playout works.

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