tripped breakers delay broadcast of ALCS game

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TBS had technical difficulties that prevented it from showing live coverage of the first 20 minutes - and the first home run - of Game 6 of the American League championship series between Boston and Tampa Bay on Saturday night. . . . . . . .

"Two circuit breakers in our Atlanta transmission operations tripped, causing the master router and its backup - which are necessary to transmit any incoming feed outbound - to shut down," TBS spokesman Sal Petruzzi said in a statement.

"This impacted our live feed from being distributed to any of the other networks in the Turner portfolio and caused the delay in our coverage," Petruzzi said. "Both our primary and backup routers were impacted by this problem. We apologize to baseball fans for this mishap that caused a delay in our coverage."
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I bet if they had installed stab-locks there wouldn't have been a problem. ;)
 
I may have to ask friends a few questions about this... "two breakers" should not be able to take out both routing switchers, which almost assuredly have redundant power supplies connected via multiple paths to the UPS. Likewise, one would think someone would notice this a bit more quickly. Most broadcasters start hopping at a 5-SECOND outage.

Unless, of course, that the breakers mentioned were the output breakers of both UPSs, and I don't buy that, even at a discount :D.
 
Do you honestly believe that it was tripped circuit breakers. :roll:

I'll bet it was a bumbling idiot that threw the wrong switch in the studio or something else.

They wouldn't tell us the real truth.
 
tkb said:
Do you honestly believe that it was tripped circuit breakers. :roll:

I'll bet it was a bumbling idiot that threw the wrong switch in the studio or something else.

They wouldn't tell us the real truth.
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Your not suggesting the media would lie to us are you? :grin:
 
First, I was not in Atlanta this week, but... I had to go to one of our local TV stations to fix crap the original "electrical contractor" could not fix. One of these items was the "On Air" lights. I pulled down the 5 new signs they installed and found the problem pretty easily-no wire:cool: . I pull in the needed wire, add a piece of conduit into the AV rack, and the engineer tells me

" Go behind this section of equipment, you'll find a relay, just hook your hot and nuetral up and the lights will work"

I was able to convince him that someone with a little familiarity with their equipment might be better able to find "a relay" to hook wires up to, especially while the station was broadcasting.
 
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My bet is they didn't plug in the feed. Their they were sitting down watching the game when the call came it that it wasn't going out. They all jumped up for the red button and walla! Fixed it. The blame? Tripped breaker of course. Nobody in their right employed mind would say we were too stupid to make sure ALL the right switches were turned on.
 
here he here he. we have an answer. when they say both feeds went down the situation was; it was a normal and emergency feed to however many routers there were. there was renovation work going on in the buidling 2 floors down. somebody shorted a lighting circuit that happened to be 277V. well we know what happened next this little ground fault went all the way down to the main that was GFI protected and tripped that. The ats was SE rated and was before the main switch. so there is your answer
 
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