16-01-2024, 10:08 AM
If you're pretty confident it's not a problem at your end (i.e. you've still got power and your sending something down your outgoing lines), even once you know you've dropped off air, you don't know how long it's going to take to get back on. It might take a second or it might be unfixable. Better to carry on with the expectation it'll just be a switch to a backup feed and back on within seconds than just give up and have to try and work out when to restart and get back into your running order.
Of course, you may get hints as to why you've fallen off air based on what you see on the off-air, but until you can start talking about it, you don't know what the issue actually is.
If it's an extended issue, programmes often will arrange a restart, but that's more common when you've had to go to standby programming while the problem is fixed as it gives you the time (and confidence that you won't suddenly be cut to air).
Of course, you may get hints as to why you've fallen off air based on what you see on the off-air, but until you can start talking about it, you don't know what the issue actually is.
If it's an extended issue, programmes often will arrange a restart, but that's more common when you've had to go to standby programming while the problem is fixed as it gives you the time (and confidence that you won't suddenly be cut to air).