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BBC One/BBC Two fallen off air: 15/12/09

15/12/09 - 17:10 - BBC One and Two Off Air - Followed by Technical problems later in the evening... (December 2009)

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JV
James Vertigan Founding member
dbl posted:
BBC Playout must have been hit by the Scrooge virus Razz


I reckon our friend Chie has sabotaged the playout centre because of the BBC One Doctor Who ident and destroyedd the master copy and all backups!

That'll teach 'em for playing it too early!
AD
adw2007
dbl posted:
BBC Playout must have been hit by the Scrooge virus Razz

...and destroyedd the master...



Master, very topical for Dr Who
WO
Worzel
Problems at Red Bee?
AS
Asa Admin
FWIW BBC Two had their Christmas one into One Man at 7pm although it did a very quick flick through what seemed to be some trails straight out of Strictly for a split second.

Nice to see the decision to use the ident music on a loop has been reversed anyway.
IS
Inspector Sands
Problems at Red Bee?

Thanks Sherlock Smile
DE
denton
I'm guessing that, as the fault affected all BBC channels played out by Red Bee, it was something that either affected all the Omneon playout servers or perhaps the core of the Colossus automation system.

They were still able to cut manually, on the mixer, to the breakdown loop (which is played off a Geevs server).

I have to say that Dean handled it all very nicely.

BBC 1 NI stayed with network for the breakdown, which is fair enough, as they were already with network for CBBC on ONE. I'd guess too that Weakest Link was played off tape.

The 6pm junctions on BBC 1 and BBC 2, as described here, would indeed lead you to believe that they came from the DR site, allowing engineers to get on with sorting the problems in the Broadcast Centre.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Asa posted:
FWIW BBC Two had their Christmas one into One Man at 7pm although it did a very quick flick through what seemed to be some trails straight out of Strictly for a split second.

Nice to see the decision to use the ident music on a loop has been reversed anyway.


Unless I've got really confused between the different feeds, a regular ident went out on BBC Two England DSat?
DE
denton

EDIT: Strangely BBC Two Scotland just used the network anno into One Man and his Dog, but preceded it with a Scotland branded trail. Something very strange is going on!


That practice, while rather strange, is not uncommon for BBC Two Scotland.
RU
russnet Founding member
Christmas has been restored on BBC One. Now back to the same ident for the next two weeks and a bit! Very Happy
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
Car Mirror Ident into One Man and His Dog (second episode) on BBC Two although I did see the Christmas 'Next' slide on BBC One before switching over.
WO
Worzel
I'm guessing that, as the fault affected all BBC channels played out by Red Bee, it was something that either affected all the Omneon playout servers or perhaps the core of the Colossus automation system.

They were still able to cut manually, on the mixer, to the breakdown loop (which is played off a Geevs server).

I have to say that Dean handled it all very nicely.

BBC 1 NI stayed with network for the breakdown, which is fair enough, as they were already with network for CBBC on ONE. I'd guess too that Weakest Link was played off tape.

The 6pm junctions on BBC 1 and BBC 2, as described here, would indeed lead you to believe that they came from the DR site, allowing engineers to get on with sorting the problems in the Broadcast Centre.


BBC Two showing generic idents into One Man and His Dog part 2. Wonder if we'll see the return of the Christmas idents?
SP
Steve in Pudsey
But not on BBC Two - however they are in the middle of a BBC HD simulcast so they may have left things as they are so they don't screw up the timings.

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