GodfreyGR 548 Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 An engineer’s worst nightmare- especially right before the late news. Station is black screened. My only question is does CBS not have a generator to at least let basic operations continue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodfreyGR 548 Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 Update: They took to Facebook live for the 10:00 news and explained that the backups failed. But go them for bringing in reporters to go over their stories for the night, and Chris Schaffer did the weather with a paper map! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABC 7 Denver 1626 Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 Wouldn't their master control be able to keep the station up and pipe in news from another market until they were able to go live again? I mean, if you have a satellite uplink, a few LiveU/TVU packs etc, you could patch that in through master control and use a microwave relay to broadcast the signal. Idk how they could have exhausted all options, because I'm thinking of several workarounds and with my IT background, I could probably get them to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodfreyGR 548 Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 4 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said: Wouldn't their master control be able to keep the station up and pipe in news from another market until they were able to go live again? I mean, if you have a satellite uplink, a few LiveU/TVU packs etc, you could patch that in through master control and use a microwave relay to broadcast the signal. Idk how they could have exhausted all options, because I'm thinking of several workarounds and with my IT background, I could probably get them to work. That, and many other questions. They were back on in time for morning news- and watching their Mid-Morning show now, they admitted that while they're back on the air, not all systems are back up. The last commercial break was a loop of radar and weather maps along with what looked like some of the idents that get thrown in for breaks on the streamer... Can you imagine some 12 hours and counting of no spots running? Pour the traffic department a drink or five! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTVNews 192 Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 Ideally stations that have generators would regularly test them. Stations should also have multiple disaster recovery plans for various scenarios with different options. In terms of master control, depends on type of MC/hub. If the equipment is housed at the station (with the power out), not much a HUB can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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