ITV technical problems

[Inspector Sands]

There was a problem with their playout centre in Leeds, hence the outage and some sort of DR kicking in.... presumably the channels came from Chiswick instead

I missed it, but I assume this would've affected all of Yorkshire Television then, and not just the West part of that region.

Their playout centre in Leeds (which is now part of Red Bee) plays out ITV for half the country, there's no such thing as Yorkshire Television,its just another variant of ITV

[Inspector Sands]

Out of interest, what is the benefit to ITV from having “Northern” regions coming from Leeds? Given it’s national continuity wouldn’t it be easier to completely centralise things?

As Brekkie says, it's more resilient to have two places doing it. So in yesterday's case one had a problem and the other in London took over what it normally outputs. If the problem was in London then Leeds would have done the same.

The BBC has a similar setup. It's not something that was that easy to do in the past, it's only now that everything's digital and storage and connectivity is cheap that things can be mirrored elsewhere.

[harshy]

There was a problem with their playout centre in Leeds, hence the outage and some sort of DR kicking in.... presumably the channels came from Chiswick instead

I missed it, but I assume this would've affected all of Yorkshire Television then, and not just the West part of that region.

Yes, i've seen on Twitter that Central East and YTV East were affected.

I think Central comes from Leeds too it’s good to know the itv regions name are alive and kicking in the background.

[Mike]

I missed it, but I assume this would've affected all of Yorkshire Television then, and not just the West part of that region.

Yes, i've seen on Twitter that Central East and YTV East were affected.

I think Central comes from Leeds too it’s good to know the itv regions name are alive and kicking in the background.

Central at one stage were at Chiswick as well, assume that was linked to the Central South macro region

[JAS84]

There was a problem with their playout centre in Leeds, hence the outage and some sort of DR kicking in.... presumably the channels came from Chiswick instead

I missed it, but I assume this would've affected all of Yorkshire Television then, and not just the West part of that region.

Their playout centre in Leeds (which is now part of Red Bee) plays out ITV for half the country, there's no such thing as Yorkshire Television,its just another variant of ITV

The post I quoted referred to YTV, so I assume that's the short code that appeared on screen. If it was something like YOR, shouldn't only the word Yorkshire be mentioned... which, by the way, is still a name in use for the studios.

LWT, Carlton, HTV and Grampian are the only regional brands to have been completely obliterated.

[Markymark]

Yes, i've seen on Twitter that Central East and YTV East were affected.

I think Central comes from Leeds too it’s good to know the itv regions name are alive and kicking in the background.

Central at one stage were at Chiswick as well, assume that was linked to the Central South macro region

Central South (aka Oxford) for a period carried Meridian news, but Central non news regional, and Central ads I recall?

[AxiosBrit67]

Is this technical problem related to Red Bee fire alarm?

[Steve in Pudsey]

Was that the short lived ITV Thames Valley Tonight, shown on Central South and Meridian North?

[Steve in Pudsey]

Is this technical problem related to Red Bee fire alarm?

Being about 200 miles away I think that's unlikely.

[Op4bridge]

Is this technical problem related to Red Bee fire alarm?

Let me think.... No. No it is not.

[CameronYoung]

I missed it, but I assume this would've affected all of Yorkshire Television then, and not just the West part of that region.

Their playout centre in Leeds (which is now part of Red Bee) plays out ITV for half the country, there's no such thing as Yorkshire Television,its just another variant of ITV

The post I quoted referred to YTV, so I assume that's the short code that appeared on screen. If it was something like YOR, shouldn't only the word Yorkshire be mentioned... which, by the way, is still a name in use for the studios.

LWT, Carlton, HTV and Grampian are the only regional brands to have been completely obliterated.

It was YTWEST (and presumably YTEAST)
https://twitter.com/cleanfeed_ttvr/statu...2117944320

[Markymark]

Was that the short lived ITV Thames Valley Tonight, shown on Central South and Meridian North?

Yes, I think it was. After Ridge Hill was retuned back to Central West, and an additional frequency added for it to carry HTV West.
Circa 2008 ish

[Mort]

I've got it on SD Freeview:

My TV is, well, strange, I think the frame is too thick for the screen or something, and so I get about 1cm of the screen cropped off, so i just see three lines. Anyway, asked dad on the much better one connected to the Sky box and he says TTT (T yne T ees T elevision presumably). So maybe they're in some form of DR mode if they did fall off air this morning.

Forced overscan is a downside of some TVs with integrated tuners on SD channels/signals. While viewing an SD channel, you can try looking for the picture size / picture scaling / zoom option called something like "Just Scan", "Just Fit", "Exact Fit", "Full", "100%" or similar. Some TVs will have a separate option like "16:9 Overscan" or "Overscan" which you may be able to turn off.

On our Samsung MU series, we have to use the Sky box to upscale SD channels to 1080i otherwise they're always overscanned with no option to disable. Its integrated DVB-T2 tuner does the same thing.