STAR 22581 (Time Warner Cable, Buffalo, NY) Narration Issue

[yourweathertoday]

For the past few months, the narration on STAR 22581 here in Buffalo has occasionally been choppy or frozen altogether. It usually happens during the extended forecast descriptions, although it does not appear that the STAR itself is freezing, just the narration. I've noticed an increase of Local Forecasts with this issue as of late. Any idea what is going on? 

[Zach]

I'd hate to be an attention grabber, but this is happening on a lot of STARs, especially during the text-LF. It probably happens because of the sponsor bug animations and the movie animations on the right-hand side of the text-LF.

[TWCToday]

I'd hate to be an attention grabber, but this is happening on a lot of STARs, especially during the text-LF. It probably happens because of the sponsor bug animations and the movie animations on the right-hand side of the text-LF.

Define a lot? Ive never seen it happen

[Zach]

I'd hate to be an attention grabber, but this is happening on a lot of STARs, especially during the text-LF. It probably happens because of the sponsor bug animations and the movie animations on the right-hand side of the text-LF.

Define a lot? Ive never seen it happen

Aaron has seen it, Tavores saw it yesterday (IIRC), and I've been on Skype calls with another TWC fan (who is a member here) that has seen it. I, however, haven't seen it when I get around to viewing a local IS.

[wxntrafficfan]

I'd hate to be an attention grabber, but this is happening on a lot of STARs, especially during the text-LF. It probably happens because of the sponsor bug animations and the movie animations on the right-hand side of the text-LF.

Define a lot? Ive never seen it happen

This is the sort of thing that happens (skip ahead to the text based). It was rampant last summer and then became on and off during the winter.

Local Forecast with Audio Issues- September 20, 2008 7:58 PM EDT

Notice how in this video it causes the crawl to slow down and lag. Also notice that it causes the video to run over YWT to a few seconds

Local Forecast- 4/19/10 7:58 AM EDT

And here's another sample from the E.L.

E. Lansing Intellistar- First Day of Fall 2009 4:38 PM EDT

It's really not anything new, and it's more an issue with some Intellistars than it is for others. With the exception of decommissioning Intellistar units with faulty narration issues (and replacing them), I doubt there is much that the STAR team can do about it.