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Offline beanboy89

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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #165 on: January 22, 2008, 08:13:03 PM »
Quote from: Lmejh on January 22, 2008, 07:57:25 PM
The Skytracker was still working interestingly enough  :huh:
Yeah, that was quite strange that SkyTracker was still working. I had expected them to have used the old radar images, or even the NEXRAD radar feeds.
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #166 on: January 22, 2008, 08:27:47 PM »
Quote from: beanboy89 on January 22, 2008, 08:13:03 PM
Quote from: Lmejh on January 22, 2008, 07:57:25 PM
The Skytracker was still working interestingly enough  :huh:
Yeah, that was quite strange that SkyTracker was still working. I had expected them to have used the old radar images, or even the NEXRAD radar feeds.
I miss the old radar images, especially the ones (and I'm trying my best to describe this) the circle-type radar image that had the name of the state labeled.
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #167 on: January 22, 2008, 08:29:52 PM »
Quote from: Lmejh on January 22, 2008, 08:27:47 PM
Quote from: beanboy89 on January 22, 2008, 08:13:03 PM
Quote from: Lmejh on January 22, 2008, 07:57:25 PM
The Skytracker was still working interestingly enough  :huh:
Yeah, that was quite strange that SkyTracker was still working. I had expected them to have used the old radar images, or even the NEXRAD radar feeds.
I miss the old radar images, especially the ones (and I'm trying my best to describe this) the circle-type radar image that had the name of the state labeled.
That would be that the NEXRAD radar. :yes:
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #168 on: January 22, 2008, 08:33:23 PM »
Quote from: beanboy89 on January 22, 2008, 08:29:52 PM
Quote from: Lmejh on January 22, 2008, 08:27:47 PM
Quote from: beanboy89 on January 22, 2008, 08:13:03 PM
Quote from: Lmejh on January 22, 2008, 07:57:25 PM
The Skytracker was still working interestingly enough  :huh:
Yeah, that was quite strange that SkyTracker was still working. I had expected them to have used the old radar images, or even the NEXRAD radar feeds.
I miss the old radar images, especially the ones (and I'm trying my best to describe this) the circle-type radar image that had the name of the state labeled.
That would be that the NEXRAD radar. :yes:
Ah, excuse my ignorance  :blushing:
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #169 on: January 22, 2008, 09:29:35 PM »
The SkyTracker unit being used had the pre-June 2007 style, so I'm guessing it was an older (possibly backup) unit.

...and I do agree, some of what we saw this morning was reminiscent of what TWC should be like today, just with a little more organization, of course.

BTW, the HD feed is back, but the HD LF is still down, and the SD satellite LF is still playing at a random order and fading (not hard-cutting) back to the studio, so there's still some work to be done before TWC will be back to 100%. I wonder how they'll handle this.
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #170 on: January 22, 2008, 09:31:25 PM »
I would of probably stayed up for this, but I have midterms this week so I had to make sure I'd get enough sleep.
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #171 on: January 22, 2008, 09:32:24 PM »
Quote from: MikeM2010 on January 22, 2008, 09:31:25 PM
I would of probably stayed up for this, but I have midterms this week so I had to make sure I'd get enough sleep.
That was exactly my problem as well.
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #172 on: January 22, 2008, 09:43:32 PM »
I still have to commend the team at the Weather Channel for patching something together instead of displaying something else, such as a non-stop Sat. LF. I wonder how they got the equipment back up to make it work...
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #173 on: January 22, 2008, 09:55:17 PM »
Quote from: Lmejh on January 22, 2008, 09:43:32 PM
I still have to commend the team at the Weather Channel for patching something together instead of displaying something else, such as a non-stop Sat. LF. I wonder how they got the equipment back up to make it work...

Apparently NewsBlues reports that they broadcasted from an "earth station" several miles away rather than from the TWC studios, as we had originally assumed.
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #174 on: January 22, 2008, 10:02:13 PM »
Anyone notice that there are still some timing issues? At the end of the LF at 9:58 PM ET, after the STAR had finished the local forecast, the satellite LF was exposed for another 5-10 seconds.
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #175 on: January 22, 2008, 10:05:55 PM »
Yeah, and it's fading back to the studio instead of hard-cutting. There are still issues to be dealt with.
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #176 on: January 22, 2008, 10:07:42 PM »
At 10:06 PM ET, the screen went black, then the satellite LF made an appearance for a few seconds before the commercial break.
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #177 on: January 22, 2008, 11:43:01 PM »
Interesting thought that just occured to me-we beleive that the cause of TWC's problems was a power surge that destroyed equipment (or at the very least damaged it). But could that really be the case? I mean, wouldn't you think they'd have some sort of surge protection/supression in place, to prevent catastrophes such as this? I mean, you'd think any company whose very operation and livelihood depends solely on computers and other electronics which are very delicate and easily destroyed by power surges would take some kind of steps to  protect their equipment from these kinds of issues.  :unsure:
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #178 on: January 23, 2008, 12:16:19 AM »
I don't know. I thought I've heard of networks going down for that reason in the past. I guess they can't protect against everything; they can only try.
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Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?
« Reply #179 on: January 23, 2008, 12:40:09 AM »
It just seems to me that when valuable equipment, money, and viewership are at stake you go to whatever lengths you have to keep that from happening.

I've personally never heard of this happening at any of the other national cable networks.
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