Various channels went off air tonight on multiple platforms
Various channels went off air tonight on multiple TV platforms for varying amounts of time. Affected the likes of Channel 4, More 4, Channel 5, S4C and others apparently.
C4 HD was definitely affected on Virgin Media as my recording of Bettany Hughes' Treasures of the World recorded a static screen for much of it. I'm watching it on VM Catch-up as I type this as a result. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58694894 |
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Apparently the fire was at Red Bee Media according to this article. There's more details about how it affected various platforms rather than the rather unspecific BBC article.
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Reducing the number of playout centres and centralising everything has, no doubt, saved a lot of money. Although at the expense of quite a few jobs. Situations such as this expose the weaknesses of the broadcast chain. Concentrating resources in known locations such as White City & Media City also put the infrastructure at risk to terrorist attacks. Weaknesses in the system can be devastating for viewers as the loss of the mast at Bilsdale West Moor has demonstrated.
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Wow I was gonna say maybe a sat went offline or something.......
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---------- Post added at 04:00 ---------- Previous post was at 03:28 ---------- https://rxtvinfo.com/2021/investigat...frozen-screens |
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Apparently Streaming of the linear broadcast channels were bottom of the queue to get restored according to reports I read late last night. It didn't affect all of terrestrial, just those that use Red Bee Media for playout. The BBC's systems apparently switched immediately to Salford so viewers didn't notice except for the continuity elements of their regional channels. The whole thing seems to have occurred around about 6.30pm. Though the place I read it wasn't exactly convincing, so maybe I'll find a more accurate account this morning. |
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BT Sport also plays out of White City but BTS 1 & 2 were live at the time of the outage so managed continuity from their own facilities. BTS 3 was affected by the outage. The location of the C&M centres for Freeview is supposed to be secret but, following this incident, it's fairly obvious where D3&4's C&M is located. The broadcasters seem to be keeping a lot of their eggs in one basket. |
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---------- Post added at 10:58 ---------- Previous post was at 10:29 ---------- --------- Red Bee are investigating and not going to comment until all services are restored to normal and their investigation is concluded. https://rxtvinfo.com/2021/investigat...frozen-screens |
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---------- Post added at 11:36 ---------- Previous post was at 11:32 ---------- a516digital on Twitter has said UKTV must be relieved as they'd just changed their playout and distribution from Red Bee to SES recently. Too right! :D Can't say I was aware of this deal. https://www.ses.com/ses-signs-bbc-st...video-channels |
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Although Sky handle their own playout, so it wasn't really a monopoly. As Red Bee also handle playout of GB News it's amazing that this channel, so famous for technical problems, seems to have escaped this one. |
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