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I've been caught out before after having smugly thought that I'd avoided all the ones at our downlink site, only to be caught out by something live from Australia in the middle of the night falling off air, which it it turned out to be be downlinked and on-passed by a teleport in Hong Kong.
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Given the high profile nature of these events I would have thought the signal was transported back to the UK by satellite and fibre to cover all eventualities like this. Programmes such as I’m a Celebrity are for example, and via different geographical routes.
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(06-03-2023, 02:42 PM)Bluecortina Wrote: Given the high profile nature of these events I would thought the signal was transported back to the UK by satellite and fibre to cover all eventualities like this. Programmes such as I’m a Celebrity are for example, and via different geographical routes.
For something that is genuinely high profile or on at peak time they probably would. A Premier League match being shown live will have (either dual fibres, fibre and satellite and probably access to the world feed too).
But this was a minority sport late at night. It all depends on how much they want to spend, I don't know what, if any, transatlantic capacity Comcast/Sky have of their own
(06-03-2023, 02:23 PM)thegeek Wrote: I've been caught out before after having smugly thought that I'd avoided all the ones at our downlink site, only to be caught out by something live from Australia in the middle of the night falling off air, which it it turned out to be be downlinked and on-passed by a teleport in Hong Kong.
Really really bad luck to be affected by a solar outage at nightime
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Well, he meant middle of the night in the UK, lol. It would've been daytime down under.
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(07-03-2023, 06:33 PM)JAS84 Wrote: Well, he meant middle of the night in the UK, lol. It would've been daytime down under.
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Fun House is interrupted by colour bars, apparently from Grampian. Colin Weston at Granada jumps to the rescue before handing back to Children's ITV, who appear to have already started filling. I'm guessing they didn't bother trying to get back to the show considering how close to the end it was.
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I assume that's a BT switch between STV and Grampian on the line into Central?
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(10-03-2023, 06:51 PM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote: I assume that's a BT switch between STV and Grampian on the line into Central?
Looks a bit clean for that, could have been cut to air at STV but if it was I imagine that would have been rectified quicker
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BBC One boo-boo in Scotland last night. The opening couple minutes of Comic Relief was replaced by Saving Lives at Sea (which was airing on BBC Two at the same time). TVZone on Twitter noted that this meant Scottish viewers missed the entirety of the Doctor Who David Tennant-Lenny Henry regeneration sketch.
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(Someone in the replies hypothesises BBC One Scotland cut to the BBC *TWO* England feed... instead of the BBC One England feed perhaps?)
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It certainly looks like the BBC Two clean feed (compare the BBC Two network junction on TV Home, the programme didn't start from a freeze).
On the assumption that none of the other nations had a similar screw up, you have to assume they cut to the wrong clean feed, but you have to wonder how. There seems to be little reason to have that feed available since the closure of BBC Two Scotland, unless it was an accident involving the switchable clean feed circuit.