Price-drop/Bid-up off air

Price drop and Bid Up TV both seem to be off air at the moment - both displaying apology captions.

I know a lot of you on here seem to watch the channels 24/7 - so any idea why they're off?

My guess is power problems if both the channels are off air.

Price-drop is broadcasting EPG data for the first time ever on freeview. Seems they can't even broadcast an apology caption like bid-up. They're instead using the EPG to apologise.

Interesting that BU and PD seem to be broadcasting different things on different platforms - I checked both of them earlier - on Sky both were showing a white on black apology caption, and on Freeview I think PD was broadcasting the apology caption or a green screen, whereas Bidup had a rather stretched "more auctions coming soon" caption!

Screenshop on Sky appears to be broadcasting the same apology caption, btw - are BU,PD and Screenshop all from the same building then?

On Freeview, BU had the white on black caption until only recently when it changed to the nicer graphic they're now showing. PD has just had a green screen. Nothing else.

Think it started last night. I tuned in at just after 11pm and they had already switched to ScreenShop.

Bid-up is showing a caption, whilst Prive-drop has switched to showing screenshop.

This most be disasterous for the company - both channels going down together - affecting revenue. I can only assume it is either down to a power cut or the recent weather.

There have been several attempts to get going!

BU was broadcasting for a time on Sky Digital but the phones did not seem to be working - or perhaps they did not have any viewers!

Strangely on DTT BU was on the PD channel with a "Technical Difficulties" banner on BU :

Now Screenshop is showing - but Screen shop is still off air on its proper channel??

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Now on FV Bid-Up are broadcasting on the Price-Drop channel, and it's falling price aswell.

Bid-Up still have the "More Auctions Coming Soon" caption on their own channel.

couldn't sleep last night cos of heat!!! so i tuned to screenshop

bid-up.tv screenshop was fine all night/morning but price-drop.tv screenshop around about 1am just stopped and only showed the screenshop logo, then about 20mins later green flashes kept appearing and this continued for the good part of the night/morning, dont know when and if it stopped, but hope this helps

Just had a look to see whether BU/PD and Screenshop were all in the same building, which could have been the reason why all 3 have been off air - but apparently they are not!

Media UK lists Screenshop as being in Great Portland Street, and Bid Up and Price Drop are actually just a few minutes away from me here in Acton! (A little back alley called Warple Way!) - Not sure though whether the addresses Media UK gives are either just offices for the channels or the actual studio addresses...

Maybe it's a power problem, and they only have enough power to operate one channel. So falling price auctions from Bid-up.tv on the price-drop channel number (on FreeView).

Still it's a good time to buy things cheap

i saw bright purple screens on both freeview BU and PD at around 3am this morning.

No EPG data on freeview where me is.