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"Station Off Air Standby" on all MTV Networks

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It would appear that this Wednesday at 5:30 AM ET, all MTV-owned cable channels will be off the air for a half hour. This is occurring on the following channels:

Nickelodeon, MTV, Vh1, Spike, Comedy Central, TV Land, CMT, Palladia

The same thing is happening on Thursday morning at 5:30 on these channels:

Nicktoons, Nick Jr., TeeNick, MTV2, Vh1 Classic, MTV Trés

Anyone have any idea of why this is happening? I just wonder what it will be like when this happens.
 
I think it's going to happen then on the channels that have West Coast feeds, but the others I think it will happen 3 hours later.
 
The MTV Networks channels generally leave the air for a half hour once a month, and have been doing so for most of their existence. Don't know the rationale of doing so today, though in the early days, they would use this off-time to transmit promos to cable companies for use during local breaks on other networks.

Today, of course, it'll just be a test pattern for a half-hour. Even then, Nick-at-Nite would still give it a spin by calling it "Bars and Tone" and giving it its own webpage on its site, going as far as listing the central plot and the "characters".
 
Scheduled maintenance, calibration, swapping out equipment, there are a number of reasons for taking a feed down for a time once a month at a scheduled time when even fewer people will be watching than normal.
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
And will it happen then, or three hours later, on the left coast feeds?
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Viacom's HD channels are some of the few with separate West Coast feeds. Most HD is still one feed, though (which means we either get things two or three hours early, depending on what flavor of time the rest of the country is using). Some nets repeat their shows in 3 hour blocks at prime so that a show at 9/8C doesn't have to be seen at 6 on the West Coast.
 
It's also a good time to swap to the alternate (uplink) power amplifier, re-peak their dishes, upload new software to their automation systems (and, revert back, if needed ;) ).
 
Does anyone know if they are moving their Master Control (Broadcast Operations) to another location? That would also be a perfect time to switch everything over.
 
According to the tv listings on the digital cable at 5:30 am on Wednesday it shows SIGN OFF I only checked MTV and Nick not the other Viacom networks said in the above post.
 
I just did a search on that video looking up Nick Hits. The network is a digital music television channel in the Netherlands and Flanders based on Nickelodeon and is aimed at children from 5 to 15 and plays only music. Seems like a Radio Disney but with music videos. Wonder if that would do well here in America for kids?
 
Ken said:
I just did a search on that video looking up Nick Hits. The network is a digital music television channel in the Netherlands and Flanders based on Nickelodeon and is aimed at children from 5 to 15 and plays only music. Seems like a Radio Disney but with music videos.
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Wow, I didn't know there as a music channel operated by Nick! Anyways, the 'Nick Hits' featured on this video is an already canceled block on Nick latin America which showed several archive shows, like Rocko's Modern Life and Catdog.
 
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