TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread

Yes, I've seen videos of Robin Houston doing a late Thames bulletin and introducing the next programme.

Makes perfect sense, in most regions there was no point having an announcement into the local news as the local news shared a name with the station!

An ITV breakdown from our friends at TVWhirl, where local weather conditions cause all sorts of chaos with the picture!

(Warning: May contain flashing images)

I don't see how that could be local weather conditions. It doesn't look like a reception issue and I don't see how weather conditions could affect everything, not just incoming programmes.

Unless it was a fault between playout and transmitter somehow

May be a fault at the transmitter or the feed to it. As it was being referred to by local pres, must have affected Pontop Pike, but may not have affected Bilsdale?

Thinking about it, that could be a transmitter fault.

It won't have been a transmitter, or reception fault, mangling up emission level MPEG doesn't look like that. Looks to me to be something in the SDI domain, so between playout and the code/mux centre

Going back to UTV, my guess on the second camera is that it was there for the weather. If you take a look 2 minutes into this it's certainly there

Yes it looks like an SDI fault, but it looks like analogue so no coding or mux centre

YTV did much the same thing

https://www.tvark.org/?page=media&mediaid=92861

Is it not unusual that the apologies from pres were done over UTV Live's holding animation, rather than a breakdown slide from pres?

"Local" pres by this point would be the same across the North of England/Southern Scotland by this point of course.

It's interesting that there seems to be a combination of analogue and digital interference on the image.