26-01-2023, 09:41 AM
I remember in the very early days there was one evening when the system that switched between the children's and non-children's channels failed and BBC Choice and or BBC4 went out on Cbeebies and or CBBC. Think it was quite a while too. After that the system and procedures were improved and it never happened again AFAIK.
Something that was either there at the start, or was brought in after that incident was a further precaution whereby if the children's EPG numbers were still active at 9pm the channels would shut down so nothing post-watershed went out. I don't know if that was an automatic process or whether it was just the network directors going into a breakdown
The system now is quite advanced and handles several time switches a day (BBC Alba and Scotland switch on and off on DTT too), it's also monitored and checked to make sure it's taken place on every output
Something that was either there at the start, or was brought in after that incident was a further precaution whereby if the children's EPG numbers were still active at 9pm the channels would shut down so nothing post-watershed went out. I don't know if that was an automatic process or whether it was just the network directors going into a breakdown
The system now is quite advanced and handles several time switches a day (BBC Alba and Scotland switch on and off on DTT too), it's also monitored and checked to make sure it's taken place on every output
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