[Neil Jones]

I've seen it before on +1 channels where the main channel has an issue of some sort (power failure is the main one), and when everything's rebooted (whether the main channel recovers on its own is another matter) its usually the +1 channel that comes back first.

And of course the whole breakdown and chaos of getting something on air again goes out all over again on said +1 channel pretty much ad-verbatim, save for maybe a bit of black where the failure was originally.

Is it the norm that if a playout system is the subject of a power failure somebody has to intervene to get it logged in or whatever to start working? Or in theory could it just auto power on and carry on? I presume the former is the case because of advert quota regulations and you probably wouldn't want adverts falling in the wrong clock hour...