[Stooky Bill]

This strikes me as unprofessional. If there's a planned outage, don't schedule the programme in the first place. They should've postponed that programme and shown it at the weekend, maybe after the Saturday morning kids magazine or after the ITV Chart Show (if that aired immediately after like it's successor CD:UK did). How many kids must've had tantrums that day because CITV got interrupted mid-programme?

How would they reschedule a networked programme, in a networked block of children's programmes? Also why disrupt the schedules for all the kids who weren't watching TV from the transmitter that had the interruption?

They were obviously expecting the interruption to take place going by the quickness of the apology, but probably not knowing exactly when. I'd have thought they'd have specified that they break shouldn't be during the adverts

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If the problem was with LWT pres, would that cause their clean feed to other regions to be lost (because in this occasion that happened)? Wouldn’t that feed normally bypass the pres vision mixer unless they needed to do an announcement over or after the end credits, or network a promo or similar - and even then they would be unlikely to flick the switch to “go dirty” so far in advance?

Someone, I think on a predecessor to this site did give the full story as to what happened. AIUI it was the pres mixer that went so yes presumably the programme being sent out to everyone else was fine. It looks like they put that to air in London manually and then the ACR or whatever they used for ads, then the next programme.