Sit-up TV channels breakdown

Bid TV is showing a very weird pink and blue checkerboard screen.
Then a fuzzy shot of the studio.
Now back to the loop.

Price-drop has gone back to the old screen.
Now back to the Bid TV loop.

Lovely. I wonder if the solar lights will light up now that the studio will be in darkness?

Bid back on there breakdown screen, Price Drop are showing Bid TV's breakdown slide.

Did anybody see the fuzzy shot of the studio? It was a shot of the studio but with a sort of analogue fuzziness overlaid.

Nope. Any caps please?

I didn't manage to get it, unfortunately. I was tuned to Price-drop on my TV tuner, which didn't show it.

Price-drop TV have just cut to a shot of their studio with colour test bars on the screens, and now back to their own breakdown slide. Unfortunately I had turned over to Bid TV on my tuner, so didn't manage to capture this either!

Price-drop are back!

Gosh. Aren't breakdowns exciting!

Okay, that was strange, the Bid TV breakdown slide just, well, melted off the screen basically and now has cut to another slide.

I've recorded that so will upload it later.

Is anyone recording Price-drop? I've got Bid covered. (If only I had a dual-tuner!)

Price-drop has sound and partially-obscured graphics

Sorry. No recording here as I am watching on a portable TV. The Bid TV slide is the slide used on the studio monitors.

Price drop are milking it somewhat. How does a power cut cause a cameraman to put his camera in front of another camera exactly?

If they are suffering from power supply issues, especially if they're getting a low voltage or slightly off frequency supply this can cause chaos with equipment. I've worked events before where a small power dip was just enough to crash all of the computers running the show (but not actually power them off), meaning confused looks on the ops for a few seconds while they tried to work out what is going on. If the mains frequncy isn't stable, numerous pieces of equipment can have trouble maintaining a stable sync resulting in weird picture disturbances.

With regards to lighting issues, studio lighting can pull a large amount of power, as well as require a significant amount of air conditioning capacity, and they may also have been asked to try to reduce their load. This could lead to all sorts of oddities appearing on screen as they try to remove power to lamps which they don't need, and then discover actually someone repatched it months ago and they do actually need that channel after all.

Generally operating with a non-stable power supply (especially one you've been warned could cut out again at any moment) is a nightmare. It doesn't take long before people start asking if there's any point actually trying to carry on.