21-08-2023, 01:41 PM
(21-08-2023, 12:03 PM)Bluecortina Wrote: Am I right in thinking this particular problem was quickly overcome by an enterprising links engineer pointing a conventional microwave dish towards BBC tv centre where the signal was picked up and relayed to BT tower then onwards to Chiswick?That wouldn't be this occasion as it was 5 years after TV Centre closed. I think they just had to wait till the weather passed
There was an incident when they were at Fountain Studios in Wembley where the BBC helped out. IIRC that was a big failure at BT Tower so if that's what happened then presumably the BBC either uplinked it to satellite or used some other connectivity to ITV or ITN.
There was one X Factor/BGT failure, might be the same as the above, where there was a satellite path for Irish TV and that was used - with the BBC downlinking it and passing it on to ITV