[Brekkie]

I thought they had a hot DR in Salford now.

Perhaps not staffed in daytime, or the fault was inherent in the file they were playing or indeed the schedule and affected both playout centres.

They surely wouldn't instantly switch to DR though in the event of a breakdown - isn't that just there if they can't get things back up and running at the main network? 

These things always feel longer than they are when they unfold live but they went from losing Countdown to the "Programmes follow shortly" caption within a minute and were back with the show within 13 minutes, so although I'm sure they'd have liked the breakdown to be 10 minutes shorter compared to recent catastophes not all bad.   And they may have lost some ad revenue in the process but were back on track by 3.05pm - might have been even sooner if they hadn't rewound Countdown quite as far back as at least one round was repeated.