All the ITV sat feeds were (are ?) assembled at an Arqiva site in William Road (Euston) before travelling to Winchester for uplink. I assume there's a pipe from the South Bank, and another from Leeds to feed William Road.
If the South Bank pipe had failed, it might well have been Arqiva that rerouted Central to all the missing D-Sat regional feeds from South Bank. That could well have been done at their Crawley Court control room, and nothing to do with Leeds. Arqiva also route DTT and analogue signals to from the Tx sites, so similar re-routing might have been applied by them too.
I was on the understanding that all the routing was done by the TV Network Switching Centre in BT Tower, particually as after the overnight power failure, the TC at the time said on Digital Spy that BT Tower switched the transmission from London to Leeds.
BT may well look after London-Leeds links, but the London to Astra uplink circuits are provided by Arqiva
Just thinking about this...
Didn't Arqiva buy the BT Fixed Services division? Would that include the permanent vision circuits used by ITV or was it just the fixed satellite teleports?
This Morning for some reason is being broadcast in 16:9 on analogue. The News was fine. Quite annoying on my standard 4:3 set with it being squashed up.
This Morning for some reason is being broadcast in 16:9 on analogue. The News was fine. Quite annoying on my standard 4:3 set with it being squashed up.
But at least all those people watching analogue with their widescreens set to stretchy mode actually had a proper shaped picture !
Oh, picture crackling and jumping on This Morning just there.
Yep, also a few problems at the start with the picture switching to a lower quality feed for a bit (not that you can really make it out in the video!).
Did the 11.11 bulletin go ahead as planned, as it was suggested here it may have been effected by the works going on at The London Studios today
It did indeed - the regional bulletin however, came from the Central (West) studio and was broadcast to most of "England and Wales" according to Mark Gough who presented the bulletin.
Did the 11.11 bulletin go ahead as planned, as it was suggested here it may have been effected by the works going on at The London Studios today
It did indeed - the regional bulletin however, came from the Central (West) studio and was broadcast to most of "England and Wales" according to Mark Gough who presented the bulletin.
Was it really worth it if it was going to most of England and Wales? Which regions took it, and why? Is it because the London network centre couldn't allow the regions to opt.
Presumably all was sorted for the lunchtime bulletins.
Calendar News went ahead as normal so presumably it was a case of the Northern Transmission Centre being in control, but being only able to broadcast it's usual 5 regions, so Central News was broadcast to everyone in the ITV PLC patch except Yorkshire, Granada, Tyne Tees and Border?
