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TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread - stegb1987 - 14-07-2021
The Dog gone already on All 4
TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread - Inspector Sands - 14-07-2021
thegeek post_id=27885 time= user_id=1372 Wrote:Lots of trails, no ads, no announcement... but at least they're back on time.Possibly, that would explain the rather cut down service from 8 till 9:30. If so I suspect it's now back as apart form the lack of announcer everything seems normal.
I wonder if they've switched to their backup facility and it's not got any ad media loaded, just programmes?
Unless of course the reason there's no announcer is because they're at the backup just now with all the correct media and schedules
Years ago they had to use it one morning when a gas leak put Horseferry Road out of action and it was very basic.
I wonder if the backup is still where it used to be back then or whether Red Bee have got a better solution within their premises
TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread - Brekkie - 14-07-2021
Have asked the mods to split the discussion into a new topic.
Two thoughts - firstly I didn't realise tonights Grand Designs was a new revisit, so went to tape it on C4+1 on Freeview. The EPG was weird though, kind of overlaying on top rather than moving along as you scroll through it. Probably a complete coincidence, but never seen it happen before.
Secondly and more seriously could this be a cyber attack? Channel Nine was crippled by one a couple of months back and the effects were on going for weeks, whilst several local US channels have been attacked in recent weeks too and basically had to go back to basics running things manually and unable to communicate by internal email etc. This looks very similar from what has been said here.
TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread - Brekkie - 14-07-2021
P.S. Is it just C4 affected or have their spin-offs also had breakdowns/lack of ads?
TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread - thegeek - 14-07-2021
Brekkie post_id=27893 time= user_id=976 Wrote:Secondly and more seriously could this be a cyber attack?I wouldn't leap to conclusions. Remember BBC One was knocked off air recently because of an incorrect timecode in a file's metadata. There could be any number of far more prosaic reasons.
TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread - AllWillBeWell - 14-07-2021
Did anyone manage to record the break down?
TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread - Markymark - 14-07-2021
Inspector Sands post_id=27890 time= user_id=1003 Wrote:Years ago they had to use it one morning when a gas leak put Horseferry Road out of action and it was very basic.
About 20 years ago? I remember it, they were in DR mode until the middle of the night
Programmes in the wrong AR, and no macro regional ads. In fact they even got Sky to repoint all the LEMNUS PIDs to the London stream I think?
TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread - James2001 - 14-07-2021
Markymark post_id=27887 time= user_id=1078 Wrote:Inspector Sands post_id=27870 time= user_id=1003 Wrote:stegb1987 post_id=27863 time= user_id=1508 Wrote:No DOGThey went for a while without adverts around the time of Diana's death/funeral in 1997
No Adverts since 8pm
This must be the longest no adverts ever on channel 4 since the says when Channel 4 had no adverts in there early days like TVAM had 1 advert
I think even back at the start they had some adverts in some areas.
TVS filled every single break on C4 during that dispute
I seem to remember reading that Yorkshire did as well.
TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread - Steve Williams - 14-07-2021
Markymark post_id=27898 time= user_id=1078 Wrote:Programmes in the wrong AR, and no macro regional ads. In fact they even got Sky to repoint all the LEMNUS PIDs to the London stream I think?
Yes, because us plebs in the provinces got to see Bob Mills explaining the congestion charge.
It was in 2002, as mentioned it happened in the morning but all the idents and trailers were in the wrong aspect ratio and continuity was very basic for the rest of the day.
E4 continued as normal tonight, BTW.
TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread - PATV Scunthorpe - 14-07-2021
Continuity back now, "And we're back..." to start the V/O over the credits of This Way Up.
TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread - James2001 - 14-07-2021
Steve Williams post_id=27903 time= user_id=1326 Wrote:Markymark post_id=27898 time= user_id=1078 Wrote:Programmes in the wrong AR, and no macro regional ads. In fact they even got Sky to repoint all the LEMNUS PIDs to the London stream I think?
Yes, because us plebs in the provinces got to see Bob Mills explaining the congestion charge.
It was in 2002, as mentioned it happened in the morning but all the idents and trailers were in the wrong aspect ratio and continuity was very basic for the rest of the day.
From what I remember, it ran into the following morning, the switch back to main continuity took place during Powerhouse (the lunchtime political show).
Channel 4 Breakdown - DavidWhitfield - 14-07-2021
Posts split from the generic breakdown thread.
Please continue discussion of tonight's issues here.
Channel 4 Breakdown - TVenthusiasm - 14-07-2021
Wow, didn't know about this til half an hour ago!!
While it is good to see E4 rocking on unaffected, C4 must have done something very wrong that caused all this chaos, and hopefully it's not as bad as Channel 9's cyber attack that crippled the network for weeks.
Also, it seems that while I was watching C4 15 mins ago, there still was no ads, all it had was a couple of trailers before returning to Gogglebox.
Case in point, it's a real shame to see C4 hit almost as bad as C9 down under. Kudos though for all those at C4 marching on despite all this!!
Channel 4 Breakdown - TIGHazard - 15-07-2021
AllWillBeWell post_id=27897 time= user_id=773 Wrote:Did anyone manage to record the break down?
All I got.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFmDcVJm1Ho
Channel 4 Breakdown - madmusician - 15-07-2021
Inspector Sands post_id=27870 time= user_id=1003 Wrote:stegb1987 post_id=27863 time= user_id=1508 Wrote:No DOGThey went for a while without adverts around the time of Diana's death/funeral in 1997
No Adverts since 8pm
This must be the longest no adverts ever on channel 4 since the says when Channel 4 had no adverts in there early days like TVAM had 1 advert
I think even back at the start they had some adverts in some areas.
At the conclusion of the Cricket World Cup final (funnily enough, two years ago to the day), there was a pretty lengthy stint without any ads. I’m not able to check my DVD recordings at the moment, but from memory it was well over an hour without an ad break, if not longer.