[Orry Verducci]

Thank you so much for the inside info. Interesting to know that technical staff are still on site - is playout for C&C/Extra still going via Peterborough?

Wishing you all the best in case your future is still not certain.

Playout for Create and Craft and Craft Extra ceased coming from us at midnight on the 25th February last year (24th February's broadcast day). They now come from Hochanda (aka C&C) which is located just outside Peterborough.

Thanks for the wishes. Let's just say the job hunt is on.

That's interesting to know what's happening from the horses mouth.

Curious to know what the point is of having anything coming out of the building, I'd have assumed everything would have been turned off by now, possibly even decommissioned and ready for sale. Or is it being kept up and running for some potential future use?

Also Orry, what are the remaining staff such as yourself doing there post closure?

I'm limited in what I can share publicly, but as with any administration there's multiple options that the administrators will explore, ranging from a sale of the business or parts of it to a sale of the assets individually. The channels are assets, so although we're no longer broadcasting programmes it's in the administrators interest to keep them running as long as we're allowed to. If we took them off air their LCN's would be revoked and they would no longer be assets that the administrators can sell, either with the business or individually.

As you know Sky were very quick to take us off their platform, but Everyone TV allow a grace period during which we can remain on Freeview and Freesat. As those channels are being kept active we are naturally expected to keep the DTT and DSAT feeds running, which is why they're still there.

As for staff, there's only a very small team that have been retained to help the administrators with various things (e.g. maintaining IT systems, dealing with customer service issues, etc). I'm now the only person remaining on the broadcast technology/operations side of things, slowly working on decomissioning the facility. The studios and galleries are now completely shut down and out of action. Playout and core infrastructure is obviously still online, and my next job will be to take that down once transmission of the channels cease.