CBS in black?

[Gadzooks]

There I was, expecting The Young & The Restless to come up as per usual after our local noon news, when CBS came up black and stayed that way for approximately 10 minutes. Our local CBS ran a crawl stating they had lost their incoming network signal and would resume ASAP, then went to a public-domain episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, which startedwith the end credits. A total train wreck all around.

Did this happen for all stations on the CBS East Coast feed, or was it just an isolated local thing here?

KL

http://home.nc.rr.com/gttyson/lastradio.html

 

[Braves2005]

I thought maybe at first that it was a local thing something to do with the weather since it has been raining here in South Texas, but it looks like now it was a national deal. In San Antonio, at 11:30 when it happened we got an episode of Jeopardy.

 

[KML0224]

WFSB-TV (CBS) channel 3 of Hartford has a tiny bit of a video problem along the immediate top of the screen which is never there otherwise. Local NBC, ABC, etc. looked fine.

 

[Jul]

From KYW-TV's website:

Due to today's technical difficulties, The Young and the Restless will re-air at 2:12 a.m. EST Saturday on CBS 3.

Are you getting the same info that today's episode will be re-aired on your local CBS station?

 

[jal41]

There I was, expecting The Young & The Restless to come up as per usual after our local noon news, when CBS came up black and stayed that way for approximately 10 minutes. Our local CBS ran a crawl stating they had lost their incoming network signal and would resume ASAP, then went to a public-domain episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, which startedwith the end credits. A total train wreck all around.

Sunday's "60 Minutes" had a brief glitch as well, with color bars with the text "CBS New York" and the current time appearing on the screen for a minute or so. My affilate here, WGCL-TV Atlanta, put up the station logo for a second, and then the program resumed.

CBS may be having problems with their NOC that needs repair.

 

[notalkallstatic]

Yes, it was a nationwide problem from CBS NY. The only info. is as follows: "Stations...as you know, the network is experiencing technical difficulties with the transmission of programming. You can access net programming on the following transponders:" blah blah.

That's all the info that I got.

There I was, expecting The Young & The Restless to come up as per usual after our local noon news, when CBS came up black and stayed that way for approximately 10 minutes. Our local CBS ran a crawl stating they had lost their incoming network signal and would resume ASAP, then went to a public-domain episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, which startedwith the end credits. A total train wreck all around.

Sunday's "60 Minutes" had a brief glitch as well, with color bars with the text "CBS New York" and the current time appearing on the screen for a minute or so. My affilate here, WGCL-TV Atlanta, put up the station logo for a second, and then the program resumed.

CBS may be having problems with their NOC that needs repair.

Usually if you see color bars with the text "CBS New York" and the current time...that is usually the local stations error (due to them not punching the right CBS receiver on the air OR their local receiver not switching when it's suppose to.) Also, there is a chance...small chance...that it could of been the network, due to them not switching to the correct receiver.

I find the Y&R event very interesting. I hate those kind of meltdowns.

 

[Braves2005]

Sunday's "60 Minutes" had a brief glitch as well, with color bars with the text "CBS New York" and the current time appearing on the screen for a minute or so. My affilate here, WGCL-TV Atlanta, put up the station logo for a second, and then the program resumed.

CBS may be having problems with their NOC that needs repair.
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For about 5 minutes or so, KENS-TV showed their logo and then when nothing else happened, they put on an episode of Jeopardy. I don't think that they even announced if Young And The Restless was going to be delayed or not nor did they put a crawl on the screen saying so.

 

[ixnay]

WJZ-13 Baltimore had the same problem, and they filled up the screen with a slide depicting the station logo* and legal.

*which makes me wish KYW had kept that Westinghouse font. :-\ (Although KYW-AM still used it on their website last time I visited it.)

BTW, in all seriousness, what's an "NOC"? ???

ixnay

 

[Iowan]

Are you talking about yesterday (12/8/2006)? I wondered if there was something wrong when WHBF from Rock Island, IL aired excessive commercials, followed by a repeat of 'Entertainment Tonight' from Thursday (12/7/2006), then a crawl explaining what went wrong and then eventually, Channel 4 got to air Y&R already in progress....

 

[notalkallstatic]

WJZ-13 Baltimore had the same problem, and they filled up the screen with a slide depicting the station logo* and legal.

*which makes me wish KYW had kept that Westinghouse font. :-\ (Although KYW-AM still used it on their website last time I visited it.)

BTW, in all seriousness, what's an "NOC"? ???

ixnay

NOC - Network Operations Center ... BOC - Broadcast Operations Center - which both are the Master Control for the networks, just different terms

That's what I believe they are called. I know NBC uses BOC as their term, but for the life of me, I can't remember what CBS's term is. It might be NOC

 

[oldiesfan6479]

That's what I believe they are called. I know NBC uses BOC as their term, but for the life of me, I can't remember what CBS's term is. It might be NOC.

CBS always signed off their audio alerts during station breaks or dead time with:
"...this is (CBS) Broadcast Control, New York."

They even have a website which has things such as program break timings, various
what-if scenarios for Sunday NFL runovers, special feed notes, etc. Unfortunately--
for us radio/TV geeks--they passworded it about 4-5 years ago to lock out everyone
except affiliates.

 

[Ultimajock]

WJZ-13 Baltimore had the same problem, and they filled up the screen with a slide depicting the station logo* and legal.

*which makes me wish KYW had kept that Westinghouse font. :-\ (Although KYW-AM still used it on their website last time I visited it.)

...interestingly, so does WOWO in Ft. Wayne, last time I checked...KPIX/5 in San Francisco still does use a variant on the font, dunno if it was kept when CBS applied the KPIX calls to radio stations in S.F. as well...

BTW, in all seriousness, what's an "NOC"? ???

ixnay

NOC - Network Operations Center ... BOC - Broadcast Operations Center - which both are the Master Control for the networks, just different terms

That's what I believe they are called. I know NBC uses BOC as their term, but for the life of me, I can't remember what CBS's term is. It might be NOC

...as of a few years back, ABC's was TOC (Technical Operations Control)...

 

[network]

There was also a problem with the opening of "THe NFL Today" at 12noon Eastern yesterday (Sunday 12/10). There was audio problem where the opening theme started to feedback about 10 second into it. So there was just the video open, no audio (except for one of the co-hosts saying "oh oh") and then the hosts opening the show once the video part of the open concluded.