60 Minutes in HD audio foul-up

[Ultimajock]

...watching on KOLD/13 Tucson; there's an echo effect on the audio of the digital signal that's not on the analog signal, and it's making the digital signal unintelligible. KOLD News is claiming the foul-up is on CBS' end. Anyone else in other markets getting this problem?...

 

[TexasTom]

...watching on KOLD/13 Tucson; there's an echo effect on the audio of the digital signal that's not on the analog signal, and it's making the digital signal unintelligible. KOLD News is claiming the foul-up is on CBS' end. Anyone else in other markets getting this problem?...

The audio on the digital HD feed was just fine on KTVT/11 here in Dallas/Fort Worth.

But that neither proves nor disproves that it was a network problem, since the network provides multiple feeds for different time zones -- and to account for football overage delays that vary by market depending on what the 3 PM (CT) game was in a given market.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

KOLD-TV and KTVT both had the PIT/PHL late game,
per JP's NFL maps site.

Watching the same late game on KPHO-TV Phoenix,
I noticed just after 7 ET/4 PT that the ID label for
the program said something like "60 Minutes-A" so
I assume that was the primary east coast sat feed
as it was their "big" DH game.

Unlike KTVT which airs 60 Minutes live, KOLD and
KPHO each delay the show until 6 PT, so that's
at least one more piece of the puzzle that can
screw something up on either the SD or HD side,
or both.

I don't have HD, nor did I watch 60 Minutes, so I
can't report on how the sound was in Phoenix.

And now that I think of it, since there were several
late games, along with Denver being a non-left coast
feed market not getting a late CBS game, the network
may have sent prime time out at 7 ET on one of their
sat channels, plus folding all late game markets into one
for bonus coverage/post-game. Meaning that Mountain
zone stations (and AZ) could have recorded (OK, digitally
stored might be a better term ) prime time from one of
two different sat feeds.

If CBS hadn't password-protected their "CBS Broadcast
Control" website a few years ago... :

 

[The King Bee]

While we're on the subject of audio mistakes, I was watching the Fox Buccaneers @ Bears game yesterday (Sun., 9-21) on a set with a TV digital converter box feeding WDRB-DT, Louisville.

When, out of curiosity, I switched the audio from English to Spanish, there was no Spanish play-by-play...only the crowd/effects mikes were there. I went into bypass for analog video and BTSC audio via WDRB-TV, and the play-by-play in Spanish was there on SAP. Was this an error in transmission, an error induced by the analog-to-digital conversion, or what?

And where on the Web can I find an accurate, reliable game coverage map (with perhaps an affiliate listing) for the networks' regional college and pro games?

 

[kenglish]

......When, out of curiosity, I switched the audio from English to Spanish, there was no Spanish play-by-play...only the crowd/effects mikes were there. I went into bypass for analog video and BTSC audio via WDRB-TV, and the play-by-play in Spanish was there on SAP. Was this an error in transmission, an error induced by the analog-to-digital conversion, or what?.....

That seems pretty common on Fox network sports. The second audio channel on DTV gets passed through, even when it's just background noise ("nat sound"). I've never noticed any Spanish on the local Fox digital.

As for the echo thing, that's often due to having one satellite receiver's rear audio channels "hard wired" (in whatever way the station likes) to the DD surround encoder, but taking the front channels off of a second/backup receiver. This is more likely when sports timings mess with the regular schedule.