On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Ben Scripps <[email protected]> wrote:
> Most CBS affiliates have multiple (typically at least three) satellite > IRD's which feed into a small routing switcher controlled by CBS Satellite > Operations in New York. They keep primary control for localizing feeds for > affiliates (i.e. NFL Sundays or regionalized commercials during prime time) > and have control over what feed each affiliate is receiving; the weekly > e-mails we receive with procedures and whatnot always contain a reminder to > call air control immediately if we have to switch to a secondary or > tertiary feed of the network for some reason so that they can retune the > IRD remotely to get us on the correct regional feed. > > Not having seen it directly, I'd guess that since it happened at the 30 > minute mark of "Scorpion", whatever station PGage was watching was maybe > running 30 minutes off the clock (i.e. prime started at 8:30 local time > instead of 8:00) while the rest of the network was on time, and CBS sent a > trigger to switch that affiliate back to the normal network thinking they > were out of prime at that point and into local programming. Just a guess... > Without providing any technical explanation, this brief note on Deadine: http://deadline.com/2014/09/ncis-los-angeles-scorpion-interruption-843451/ confirms that the mishap occurred on the West Coast. It also reminds me that NCIS: Los Angeles now airs on Monday night at 10:00, the same night as Scorpion, which makes a little more sense (I was trying to figure out why this would happen when NCIS:LA airs on a different night). The incident occurred at 9:30 PT, and they switched to the start of the 10:00 show, so somehow they skipped a half-hour -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
