I couldn't help but notice that tonight both The Amp and Flaunt are showing the same music videos, with no DOGs and the picture being cropped very badly, especially when the details of the video appear. Meanwhile on Scuzz they seem to be showing a grey screen, with their logo intact. Anyone know what's going on? Or if this is affecting their sister music channels, as I believe they're no longer owned by Sky.
Chart Show has been suffering from a major fault since around 4pm.
A back up video of the Vault appeared on all stations except Scuzz at around 17:30, which is still the case now.
Prior to that, the ex-Sky channels were displaying a blank screen, but song titles were still appearing, and the DOG's were still going on/off at either side of where the adverts should have been.
What a wise move that was!! How extraodinary that all of these channels can fail in this way and that there's only one back-up service to cover the lot!
What a wise move that was!! How extraodinary that all of these channels can fail in this way and that there's only one back-up service to cover the lot!
Not really, it seems perfectly reasonable to me to provide 1 channel to cover all their outlets. Would you really expect the situation where everything failed and some manager popped his head around the door and insisted that there should be 6 seperate back up services...... or not show anything at all?
I think you were probably very lucky to get at least 1 channel out
Not really, it seems perfectly reasonable to me to provide 1 channel to cover all their outlets.
What seems perfectly reasonable to you is not necessarily what qualifies as being acceptable.
In the case of the BBC, for example, do you think that licence fee payers would find it acceptable if all BBC TV and radio services went off air and the BBC provided *one* substitute service?
Or, in the case of ITV and it's stakeholders - probably a better business comparison...do you think they'd find it acceptable to allow a situation where a generic service went out on ITV 1, 2 and 3...and inevitably suffer a cut in their ad revenue???
Each one of those channels is like a 'slice' of a business. When one goes off air, you are losing out on the advertising revenue being generated by that channel.
In the case of The Amp, Flaunt and Scuzz - these channels are owned by Sky. At the very least, Chart Show TV should have made special contingency arrangements to keep these channels on the air.
At the moment, please keep in mind that the contingency service isn't even broadcasting adverts - the main source of income for this company. So, just now, they aren't even managing to generate revenue. What kind of contingency is that?!?!?!
What seems perfectly reasonable to you is not necessarily what qualifies as being acceptable.
In the case of the BBC, for example, do you think that licence fee payers would find it acceptable if all BBC TV and radio services went off air and the BBC provided *one* substitute service?
Or, in the case of ITV and it's stakeholders - probably a better business comparison...do you think they'd find it acceptable to allow a situation where a generic service went out on ITV 1, 2 and 3...and inevitably suffer a cut in their ad revenue???
Each one of those channels is like a 'slice' of a business. When one goes off air, you are losing out on the advertising revenue being generated by that channel.
In the case of The Amp, Flaunt and Scuzz - these channels are owned by Sky. At the very least, Chart Show TV should have made special contingency arrangements to keep these channels on the air.
At the moment, please keep in mind that the contingency service isn't even broadcasting adverts - the main source of income for this company. So, just now, they aren't even managing to generate revenue. What kind of contingency is that?!?!?!
Well that's not our problem as viewers, Chart Show Channels Ltd can do what the hell they want, they are not public service channels like BBC or ITV.
If their problems are so much that they can only broadcast 1 channel then so be it.... it's a heck of a lot better than a blank screen which is the other alternative.
You can provide as many back-ups for a channel as you want, but there is always another scenario lurking around the corner that hasn't or can't be planned for. There's also the factor that the smaller channels will never have a major back up facility as it is just not worth their while. Whereas the big broadcasters can afford to have control rooms lying waiting for a major problem that will happen once in a blue moon..... the smaller channels cannot.
It's a calcuated risk - they could have a back up service which costs them 100's of thousands of pounds a year.... when going off air for less than a day every 4 years would cost them far less
MTV only operate one back-up service too, so should it appear on every channel (rare, but can happen) you end up seeing Alicia Keys on MTV2 and Eminem on VH1 Classic and so on.
