General incompetence

[prpr]

Wonder if that'll be gone soon. Currently showing "Airing Break" from 06:00 on the 29th and nothing from 31st onwards.

That would have to be a record then - less than a week from inception to demise. And their EPG didn't work at all on the first day either.

A taster channel for the streaming service?

I doubt anybody cares or even knows about it.

I see Hobbycraft TV have nothing but placeholders after tomorrow. Maybe this is normal for them.
Likewise, some of the (so-called) Great! channels have "To Be Announced" from 9am on 1st Nov.
And Channel 4 et al are up to their semi-regular tricks with nothing for the TV day on that day too. I wonder how long before they twig this time.

(And don't start sentences with "And".)

 

[RobH1]

(And don't start sentences with "And".)

 

[EEPhil]

I doubt anybody cares or even knows about it.

I wouldn't have known about it except you posted it on your "updates" thread - which, of course, is absolutely useless for me as I don't have a HD/HDR-Fox-T2 with CF! (But it's a way to find out if I need/can be bothered to do a rescan.)

(And don't start sentences with "And".)

And why not?

General incompetence on Waltham transmitter, if not anywhere else, where U&Drama was broadcasting in some strange aspect ratio yesterday evening (Saturday 25/10/25). Just possible U&DaveJaVu was also mangled.

 

[Black Hole]

And why not?

Barry Norman lives!

 

[prpr]

General incompetence on Waltham transmitter, if not anywhere else, where U&Drama was broadcasting in some strange aspect ratio yesterday evening

It'll be the same everywhere. This stuff is centrally coded, so if the broadcaster sends it wrong, it'll get muxed wrong to all.
They just can't be bothered/don't know. But the same can be said for the major broadcasters as well, especially in news.

Barry Norman lives!

Rory Bremner does. Barry allegedly never...

 

[Black Hole]

Rory Bremner does. Barry allegedly never...

Agreed, but it stuck because it encapsulated Norman's manner of speech to a tee. I used to do quite a good "and why not".

 

[gomezz]

Barry Norman lives!

"Or does he?"

Sorry, that was a James Burke mannerism.

 

[prpr]

Looks like the Z-team was on duty yesterday in the Red Bee Playout centre for BBC One:

12/28 15:42:11 Event 17542:07203 4E:28 started 15:40:00 00:05:00 "Weather" "/m/1GY2T" "/b/57U63/01"
12/28 15:42:12 Event 17542:07204 4E:28 added   15:45:00 01:45:00 "Tennis: Battle of the Sexes -..."

12/28 15:44:42 Event 17542:07204 4E:29 started 15:45:00 01:45:00 "Tennis: Battle of the Sexes -..." "/m/1H0Y0" ""
12/28 15:44:43 Event 17542:07205 4E:29 added   17:30:00 01:00:00 "Countryfile"
12/28 15:44:43 Event 17542:07203 4E:28 removed 15:40:00 00:05:00 "Weather"

12/28 17:45:35 Event 17542:07205 4E:30 started 17:30:00 01:00:00 "Countryfile" "/m/1H0Y2" "/b/3QQHP"
12/28 17:45:36 Event 17542:07206 4E:30 added   18:30:00 01:00:00 "Celebrity Escape to the Country"
12/28 17:45:36 Event 17542:07204 4E:29 removed 15:45:00 01:45:00 "Tennis: Battle of the Sexes -..."

12/28 18:11:24 Event 17542:07205 4E:31 changed time from 17:30:00 to 17:45:00 "Countryfile"
12/28 18:11:25 Event 17542:07206 4E:30 removed 18:30:00 01:00:00 "Celebrity Escape to the Country"

12/28 18:33:02 Event 17542:07615 4E:00 added   18:45:00 00:45:00 "Escape to the Country"
12/28 18:33:02 Event 17542:07615 4E:00 started 18:45:00 00:45:00 "Escape to the Country"
12/28 18:33:03 Event 17542:07207 4E:00 added   19:30:00 01:00:00 "Antiques Roadshow: Unseen..."
12/28 18:33:03 Event 17542:07205 4E:31 removed 17:45:00 01:00:00 "Countryfile"

12/28 19:30:47 Event 17542:07207 4E:01 started 19:30:00 01:00:00 "Antiques Roadshow: Unseen..." "/m/1H0Y4" "/m/1AJ8S"
12/28 19:30:48 Event 17542:07615 4E:00 removed 18:45:00 00:45:00 "Escape to the Country"

To summarise: Countryfile cut short by 15 minutes, Celebrity Escape to the Country (1hr) replaced by an ordinary Escape to the Country (45m and no CRIDs) with the last 15 minutes of Countryfile on the start. All because the Tennis (itself a technical shambles) overran by 15 minutes and no-one can seemingly work the computer.
This is their bl@@dy job FFS.
Read their blurb and weep.

 

[EEPhil]

Read their blurb and weep.

Play out: 99.99% my a@£e! BS!
Fortunately I wasn't interested in any of the programmes you monitored. I don't use AR but I doubt whether that would have saved me. Shambles is the correct description!