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TBS: TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES W/ ALCS

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Studio20

Game is one Inning old. TBS aired an old Dick Clark Bloopers show, into a Steve Harvey rerun. Technical Difficulties.

Hmmm. Maybe they believed Skip Carey when he said after game five "We're going back to Tampa!".

Perhaps the boys set up at Legends Field, or another baseball diamond instead of going to St petersburg.

Biggest night in bay area baseball history, and TBS drops the ball.

"Steve Harvey"? Wha..wheres NWA Wresting rain out theatre? lol. Especially when you are supposed to be broadcasting from a building less than a mile from the Bayfront Center, "The House that Flair, Rhodes and Race built".


***When I started, a similar post had not been finished, thus back to back new posts about this. ***
 
Studio20 said:
Hmmm. Maybe they believed Skip Carey when he said after game five "We're going back to Tampa!".
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Skip said that from the grave? Impressive! I think you meant Chip.

Back to the point this is a HUGE embarassment for TBS. Game just came back on, but wow.
 
Mark me down for an official apology. I saw that on the "modify" post, but thought I corrected it.

Down one "point" for me.
 
Yeh, I came home about 8:20 and couldn't figure out what was going on. No Sox game on 'TBS and I went to redsox.com and they were already down 1-0. Was ready to check to see if the game was on NESN.
 
I'm loving it. As a Braves fan, the nation will see the TBS commitment to baseball ever since dropping the Braves. They have technical difficulites but have no back-up plan, show the 10 year old Bloopers show, and then Steve Harvey.

TBS' only goal in the their MLB package is to make money. The people who work at Turner Sports are good guys, but they get little support from Time Warner or their network. That's why they show no primetime games during the regular season and are less prepared for the post-season.

There's no reasonable excuse for missing the 1st inning of game 1 of the ALCS.
 
MarkL said:
They have technical difficulites but have no back-up plan, show the 10 year old Bloopers show, and then Steve Harvey.
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Actually, TBS did have a back plan. And it was enacted...going to backup programming: Bloopers and Steve Harvey.

In a brief summary of what happened a major power surge hit Techwood, it was so strong that it blew the router in TOC that gave the feed to BOC (Master Control.) Unfortunately, when the 1st router blew, it took out the backup router, so there was nothing for TOC to give the BOC. All this happening at once, blew 4 circuit breaks.

THIS COULD OF HAPPENED TO ANY NETWORK AT ANYTIME!

TBS, and it’s employees did the best they could getting the game back on the air, and they did.

If you think you can do it any better, you try to run network.
 
The Tampa affiliates had news stories about the lack of a game on TBS. They showed people in sports bars throwing things at the TVs. They showed a fight breaking out when one poor guy got up and started changing the channels on a big screen trying to find the right channel. They showed people chanting "TBS Sucks" and booooing TBS. Pretty amazing.
 
In the old days, we had something called "Patch Panels". Together with "Patch Cords", we could route around failures. ;)
 
Apparently Turner Power & Light (aka the Hooterville Electric Co.) also
serves Buffalo, NY--or at least the area around Ralph Wilson Stadium. ;D
 
I wonder if this will have any effect on TBS' future postseason coverage rights. I've got to believe someone will lose their job over this, but maybe it was indeed completely un-human-error.
 
Overreact much?

Someone should be fired! TBS may lost their coverage rights!

It was a sanfu; they happen in life. The world goes on.
 
MLB TV was showing the game from the start with TBS commentary. Chip was describing the pbp as though nothing had happened. Of course, in order to watch on MLB TV
you had to pretend you were outside the USA. Whoops, I just gave away a secret!
 
I personally think it’s funny that some people called this the “Heidi Bowl 2,” in which it’s not even close.

1: It did not happen at the end of the game, it happened at only the beginning and nothing major happened at the beginning of it anyways

2: It was a technical problem, not miscommunication/bad judgment

And yet, the sun still rose in the East and set in the West. It wasn’t the end of the world.

Personally I don’t think Turner is going to loose the MLB contract, but they will have to probably pay something to them.
 
notalkallstatic said:
MarkL said:
They have technical difficulites but have no back-up plan, show the 10 year old Bloopers show, and then Steve Harvey.
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Actually, TBS did have a back plan. And it was enacted...going to backup programming: Bloopers and Steve Harvey.

In a brief summary of what happened a major power surge hit Techwood, it was so strong that it blew the router in TOC that gave the feed to BOC (Master Control.) Unfortunately, when the 1st router blew, it took out the backup router, so there was nothing for TOC to give the BOC. All this happening at once, blew 4 circuit breaks.

THIS COULD OF HAPPENED TO ANY NETWORK AT ANYTIME!

TBS, and it’s employees did the best they could getting the game back on the air, and they did.

If you think you can do it any better, you try to run network.
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Ever heard of switching a show with a patch panel? I have, I've done it after a Grass Valley switcher took a dump. Patch panels are not "cool" and they have no "gee whiz" factor and they are not "digital" so very few facilities bother to incorporate them anymore. It happened to us at TNN once and we PATCHED AROUND IT! TBS is a national network, there is no excuse for what happened taking the baseball game off the air. If you have to switch the game from the earth station, do it. Missing an entire inning is unexcusable. They are getting enough money from MLB to make sure this didn't happen. Will they lose the contract? No. But it sure doesn't make them look very good.
 
notalkallstatic said:
I personally think it’s funny that some people called this the “Heidi Bowl 2,” in which it’s not even close.

1: It did not happen at the end of the game, it happened at only the beginning and nothing major happened at the beginning of it anyways

2: It was a technical problem, not miscommunication/bad judgment
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Well, certainly, it wasn't as bad as earlier this year, in April, when Fox stuck with a rain-delayed Yankees/Red Sox game long enough to delay the start of a NASCAR event in Phoenix... then Fox flipped the switch in the bottom of the ninth inning, and "boogity boogity boogity..."
 
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