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Nasty Meltdown on TNT Last Night

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Did anyone else see the meltdown on TNT last night?

First off, right when they came back from the very last break of Golf, they were in billboards, and they got cut off by commercials. A few minutes later, the announcers started interviewing some of the golfers, and another commercial rolled in the middle of that. After that, everything seemed calmed. So, the game ended, and credits were rolling, they faded to black, and that's all that was on the screen...black. TNT was in black for like 3 minutes, during that three minutes, we got to see, black, a slate of the PGA golf, and a TNT slate, and more black. Then, we got to see, someone cueing up, Forrest Gump on the air. That was nasty.


God Bless Servers and Automation...you can't trust them as far as you can throw them!
 
Live events cannot be automated. There would have been a human in Master Control at the time. It was just probably technical issues, and the human in Master Control had to figure out which buttons to push when there was a problem.

On Wednesday, Fox O&O WAGA/Atlanta had some network issues during "Back To You". It is all just coincidential.
 
There might be live switching between Master Control and the tournament, but it's all the automation system. The MCO during the tournament just presses a button to tell the automation to switch off the tournament and roll the breaks. This sounds like the video server (which contains the commercials and programming)crapped out, since they were trying to go out of the tournament. Obviously, the backup server wasn't working, either, since they were trying to cue up a tape on air, because just about 100% of all content is tapeless on air these days. The long period of time was probably due to them having to run to the library and grab the tape.
 
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