On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Joe Hass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Without questioning you, Ben, after what happened at Euro 2008 this > year*, I cannot believe that networks that broadcast sports haven't > made the effort to prepare for "worst case" scenarios. > > As for Turner: No one at CNNHN or TNT couldn't have grabbed the > satellite coordinates and picked up the feed?
You're absolutely right--TBS really got caught with their pants down on this one. I could understand if it was a regular season Braves game, but this is the post-season, and for TBS, this is their big game of the year. How they didn't have a plan in place for something major like this I don't know. The only thing I could speculate on is that they did say the breakers killed both their prime and backup routers--perhaps they figured the odds on two separate breakers tripping at the same time and killing two separate routers were so small that it was liveable. I'd speculate (and again, this is all speculative) that the engineers told the suits in charge something along the lines of "This will only take 15 or 20 minutes to get back up and running". My guess is that there is some sort of catastrophic disaster plan for shifting the coverage to TNT, but they realized it wouldn't take *that* long to get things fixed and just elected to stay put. (Ironically, as I'm typing this, CBS has had to switch stations away from the San Diego/Buffalo NFL game, where recurring power outages have killed the feed from the truck twice today. Obviously, with multiple games in progress, CBS has an easier time of switching things around, but they've obviously got their plans in place.) -- -- Ben Scripps [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
