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  • Where to get News of White City Playout Centre incident

    From Dickie mint@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 2 10:11:22 2021
    XPost: uk.tech.digital-tv

    Unusually for these newsgroups there seems a lack of information of Red
    Bee's White City Playout Centre Fire Suppression System activation event
    last week.

    I've been keeping up to date with posts on

    https://cleanfeed.thetvroom.com

    (No connection whatsoever)

    Day 7 event effects here, for example:

    https://cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/9881/preswatch/fallout-from-red-bee-broadcast-centre-incident-day-7/

    They also have a twitter account.

    In brief what I've gleaned, an inert gas injected at high pressure Fire Suppression System, in an equipment room at Red Bee's White City Playout
    Centre affected BBC, itv, channel 4 and channel 5.
    BBC and itv have a very robust Disaster Recovery system and playout
    transferred seamlessly to a parallel Playout Cente in Salford.
    Channel 5 seem to have a less robust one, but one nevertheless.
    Channel 4 have nothing.

    Effects are still being felt.

    Read cleanfeed.tvroom for more detail!

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  • From Dickie mint@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 2 15:11:22 2021
    XPost: uk.tech.digital-tv

    I said itv as well! Doh!

    Thanks to Mark Carver in another thread who answered a query:

    "> I was going to ask about ITV, heard little about them. Have they been
    affected much?

    Not at all. They use Ericsson at Chiswick and Leeds, it's the Red Bee
    White City site that's suffered the problem. (Although Ericsson own Red
    Bee anyway) "

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  • From Mark Carver@21:1/5 to Dickie mint on Sat Oct 2 16:07:31 2021
    XPost: uk.tech.digital-tv

    On 02/10/2021 10:11, Dickie mint wrote:

    Channel 4 have nothing.
    Not so. C4 are broadcasting from a DR site at a secret location, but
    it's not too far out of London.

    Their DR site I gather is rather old, and they were planning to replace
    it soon with another solution, but that project has been running late

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  • From Dickie mint@21:1/5 to Mark Carver on Sat Oct 2 20:20:59 2021
    XPost: uk.tech.digital-tv

    On 02/10/2021 16:07, Mark Carver wrote:
    On 02/10/2021 10:11, Dickie mint wrote:

    Channel 4 have nothing.
    Not so. C4 are broadcasting from a DR site at a secret location, but
    it's not too far out of London.

    Their DR site I gather is rather old, and they were planning to replace
    it soon with another solution, but that project has been running late

    Ah! Thanks Mark.

    Do cleanfeed-tvroom know?

    I miss being in the action! Don't even have my old contacts, they've all retired or gone on to other things!

    Richard

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  • From Dickie mint@21:1/5 to Dickie mint on Sat Oct 2 20:25:47 2021
    XPost: uk.tech.digital-tv

    On 02/10/2021 20:20, Dickie mint wrote:
    snip
    Do cleanfeed-tvroom know?


    Or even cleanfeed.thetvroom.com!

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