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Viacom master control in full breakdown mode right now

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nathannah

I flipped past Comedy Central's HD feed about an hour ago and noticed they were showing promos with the old 'globe' logo and their 'grunge' look before the 'circle CC' logo came in two years ago. Nothing unusual...until it began to loop...and loop...and loop. They were showing ads for getting Mind of Mencia and Reno 911 wallpaper and their hour-long block of Scrubs...which hasn't been on that network for years. It hasn't stopped, and CC's SD feed is severely off schedule.

I decided to flip around, and found it just wasn't Comedy Central; all of Viacom's networks are broken down in some way or another. The Digital Suite music video networks all have 'please stand by' cards up, along with Nick's digital channels (Nick Jr.'s is nice, asking you to find the circles in a picture), MTV is still on, but logoless and playing a loop of Kanye West videos. Spike TV is still up (though in infomercial mode). Nick's feeds are still up somehow, while VH1 is on the air, but with video image tinged in the worst pink macroblocking I've ever seen come down a satellite. MTVU has a card up with a guy in an ironic t-shirt saying 's**t happens'. It looks like it's limited though to Viacom's HD and digital-only transmitted networks, with the analog 4:3's working just fine.

Obviously, Viacom's master control took a hard hit tonight, and I'll be interested in seeing how they fix it or make some kind of public statement about it (though there have been tweets from providers saying it's definitely at Viacom's end).
 
The analog feeds for Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Country Music Television, and Spike TV were affected too (I did not check Music Television or Video Hits 1). Their feeds were blank at the same time.
 
http://www.scpr.org/blogs/news/2012/09/25/10143/knx-radio-evacuated-backup-feed-due-suspicious-bee/

This can explain why all of Viacom's networks are broken down in some way or another. Look at this a Viacom owned Package was sent to the CBS Radio Studio's in LA yesterday. KNX the CBS all-News O&O went to KCBS 106.9FM San Francisco while all the KNX staff phoned in to the KCBS studio's to report on the latest in LA. Does Viacom have offices in the Miracle Mile Area. Wow Viacom got some strange and free publicity in LA yesterday over a BET clock.
 
I almost forgot to mention Black Entertainment Television's analog feed was blank early today also.
 
recto101 said:
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-knx-suspicious-package,0,2019417.story

Update the BET Clock was part of the promo by former (NBC-TV San Jose Anchor and CNN TJ Holmes)
Now TJ Holmes crew has to explain to BET and CBS about his publicity stunt.
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Why does "TJ Holmes crew" have to explain anything? Did he or his crew send the BET clock to CBS Radio? I doubt it. No doubt it was some flunky in the BET or Viacom Marketing department. And why did the guard or clerk at CBS Radio assume the package could be an incendiary device? Didn't it have a return address or Viacom logo on it? Perhaps not - maybe it was sent in a plain brown wrapper - but I doubt Holmes can be held responsible.

And how does the evacuation of CBS radio studios on LA's Miracle Mile yesterday relate to the breakdown of Viacom master control this morning? Is Viacom's master control in CBS's Los Angeles radio studios? I doubt it. There's likely no relation between the two events.
 
Lkeller said:
recto101 said:
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-knx-suspicious-package,0,2019417.story

Update the BET Clock was part of the promo by former (NBC-TV San Jose Anchor and CNN TJ Holmes)
Now TJ Holmes crew has to explain to BET and CBS about his publicity stunt.
Click to expand...

Why does "TJ Holmes crew" have to explain anything? Did he or his crew send the BET clock to CBS Radio? I doubt it. No doubt it was some flunky in the BET or Viacom Marketing department. And why did the guard or clerk at CBS Radio assume the package could be an incendiary device? Didn't it have a return address or Viacom logo on it? Perhaps not - maybe it was sent in a plain brown wrapper - but I doubt Holmes can be held responsible.

And how does the evacuation of CBS radio studios on LA's Miracle Mile yesterday relate to the breakdown of Viacom master control this morning? Is Viacom's master control in CBS's Los Angeles radio studios? I doubt it. There's likely no relation between the two events.
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True, But there is bad publicity surrounding it with no connections.
 
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