Catastophic failure on ITV

As I write this ITV 2, 3 and 4 have been on a static caption for more than
half an hour on both Sky and Freeview. ITV 1 is ok on Sky and Analogue, but
it's a black screen on Freeview, and I know my reception of the ITV Freeview
multiplex is ok because I'm getting Channel 4 on Freeview fine (tx Crystal
Palace).

I guess they've had a catastophic failure of the playout system for ITV 2, 3
and 4, but I wonder why it has killed off ITV 1 on Freeview? Must be rather
worrying for ITV's advertisers. I wonder if anyone still works at ITV's
Network centre at 2 in the morning, or have they all been "released"?

ITV 2+1, and 3+1 are still working, so I guess the system that creates the 1
hour delay is unaffected.

Stephen wrote:
As I write this ITV 2, 3 and 4 have been on a static caption for more than
half an hour on both Sky and Freeview. ITV 1 is ok on Sky and Analogue, but
it's a black screen on Freeview, and I know my reception of the ITV Freeview
multiplex is ok because I'm getting Channel 4 on Freeview fine (tx Crystal
Palace).

I guess they've had a catastophic failure of the playout system for ITV 2, 3
and 4, but I wonder why it has killed off ITV 1 on Freeview? Must be rather
worrying for ITV's advertisers. I wonder if anyone still works at ITV's
Network centre at 2 in the morning, or have they all been "released"?

ITV 2+1, and 3+1 are still working, so I guess the system that creates the 1
hour delay is unaffected.

Blow by blow account of it all he-

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewt...=asc&sta rt=0

I don't think anything particularly important or compelling was lost.

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On Sat, 31 May 2008 02:48:30 +0100, "Stephen"
wrote:

As I write this ITV 2, 3 and 4 have been on a static caption for more than
half an hour on both Sky and Freeview. ITV 1 is ok on Sky and Analogue, but
it's a black screen on Freeview, and I know my reception of the ITV Freeview
multiplex is ok because I'm getting Channel 4 on Freeview fine (tx Crystal
Palace).

I guess they've had a catastophic failure of the playout system for ITV 2, 3
and 4, but I wonder why it has killed off ITV 1 on Freeview? Must be rather
worrying for ITV's advertisers. I wonder if anyone still works at ITV's
Network centre at 2 in the morning, or have they all been "released"?

ITV 2+1, and 3+1 are still working, so I guess the system that creates the 1
hour delay is unaffected.

Bit of an exaggeration to describe no ITV as a catastrophe. I can't
see Bob Geldof organising a global appeal :-)

In message , Mark Carver
wrote

I don't think anything particularly important or compelling was lost.

No, only episode 2 of Pushing Daisies

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I don't think anything particularly important or compelling was lost.

No, only episode 2 of Pushing Daisies

Available online at itv.com i think after tonights ep.

"Dave Healey" wrote in message
...
I don't think anything particularly important or compelling was
lost.

No, only episode 2 of Pushing Daisies

Available online at itv.com i think after tonights ep.


Whilst the whole series will be repeated later in the year anyway,
according to ITV, personally I can't see any reason why they couldn't
just drop one of the football matches, ITV must really want to
decimate their audience base...

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Blow by blow account of it all he-

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewt...=asc&sta rt=0


Blimy, looking at that lot (and the time message stamps) all I can say
is that there were an awful lot of (non) ITV broadcast engineers on
their night-shifts last night or an awful lot of utterly sad
insomniacs around!

Stephen wrote:
As I write this ITV 2, 3 and 4 have been on a static caption for more than
half an hour on both Sky and Freeview. ITV 1 is ok on Sky and Analogue, but
it's a black screen on Freeview, and I know my reception of the ITV Freeview
multiplex is ok because I'm getting Channel 4 on Freeview fine (tx Crystal
Palace).

I guess they've had a catastophic failure of the playout system for ITV 2, 3
and 4, but I wonder why it has killed off ITV 1 on Freeview? Must be rather
worrying for ITV's advertisers. I wonder if anyone still works at ITV's
Network centre at 2 in the morning, or have they all been "released"?

There'll be no-one at ITV Network Centre at the time in the morning as
it's just offices in Grays Inn Road. Although all ITVs transmission
staff have been 'released' as it's been sold off to Thomson/Technicolour.

Are there (m)any adverts at that time of night?

ITV 2+1, and 3+1 are still working, so I guess the system that creates the 1
hour delay is unaffected.

But it does mean that everyone can watch whatever happened as hour later!

Stuart wrote:

There'll be no-one at ITV Network Centre at the time in the morning as
it's just offices in Grays Inn Road. Although all ITVs transmission
staff have been 'released' as it's been sold off to Thomson/Technicolour.

The move to Chiswick must be imminent ? Perhaps last night's mess was the
migration of services going horribly wrong ?

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On Sat, 31 May 2008 14:19:49 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

The move to Chiswick must be imminent ? Perhaps last night's mess was the
migration of services going horribly wrong ?

Straightforward power failure - no more, no less.

(Of the same type that the BBC have had three or four times this
decade.) :-)

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