Another example of SCA’s sponsor boards using the 9 graphics.
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Relating to our previous discussion about the SCA9 HD watermark.
I recorded this last Wednesday, just after ACA returned from break and during the transition to RBT, which shows what I mentioned about the HD appearing and disappearing at odd times.
[quote=“matlock, post:1439, topic:1198, full:true”]Does Nine have the ability to do the switching for SCA, or at least send ‘triggers’ down the feed line so the computers at SCA playout can trigger the appearance or disappearance of the HD tag without human intervention? Because either SCA are doing it manually with someone literally sitting at a desk flicking a switch, or someone at either Nine/SCA isn’t programming the system to trigger correctly.
In the grand scheme of things, an HD tag should be easy to get right.[/quote]It’s hard to tell either way really. But with the way I see the “HD” add-on appearing and disappearing at random times, even to the point of it still being on during local ad-breaks at times, you would think it could be manually done. Although, in saying that, in the instance of a timing-error when SCA abruptly cut their local ad-breaks short, when you’ll see Melbourne ads still running and the “HD” addition usually appears 10secs after whether the “dirty” ad-break has ended and returned to the program or not.
I’m surprised after almost two months they haven’t sorted these issues out already.
Tonight has been a terrible night in regards to these issues. The “HD” add-on has been up for entire ad-breaks only to be removed when the actual program is on leaving the logo by itself like it is on 9SD. A lot of Melbourne ads/promos/sponsor boards have been let through tonight, too.
SC9 was letting a lot of Brisbane ads through on our feed here yesterday as well. No idea what was going on.
I saw one occasion where SCAs ad break abruptly disappeared mid-ad to then show a Brisbane ad, which was then abruptly cut mid-ad to an SCA Community Service ad. It was weird!
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Not too much exciting here,
But here’s the weather and closer from 9 News Sydney that was shown here in Townsville last week when SCA randomly switched from 9 News Brisbane to 9 News Sydney between ad breaks.
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It’s not just Southern Cross having issues. Nine in Melbourne had the HD part of the watermark on contantly even during promos for a couple of segments of the block last night, even when the Nine logo wasn’t on.
Just saw SCA using a specialised 9 The Block sponsor board.
Didn’t cap it. It looked like a proper 9 style sponsor board, however it had the normal SCA voice over.
Does 9 Metro use specialised The Block sponsor boards?
I’ve managed to capture it:
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Yeah, I’m pretty sure Nine does use that (but with their own voiceovers/music of course) Program Themed-Sponsor Billboard for The Block!
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Not too much exciting here,
But here’s the weather and closer from 9 News Sydney that was shown here in Townsville last week when SCA randomly switched from 9 News Brisbane to 9 News Sydney between ad breaks.[/quote]Haha. Local viewers would’ve gone “What the hell?! Why should we care about what’s happening weather-wise in Sydney/NSW?” 
Things like that have happened down here, too. We’ve had 9 Melbourne up to the preview for sport (mostly AFL stories included, of course) only to receive 9 Sydney after the conclusion of the ad-break (with lots of NRL stories instead, of course).
Definitely seems like there’s more and more issues similar to this with SCA9 of late.
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If you think the Townsville viewers would have been confused, I shudder to think what the reaction in Ayr, near Townsviile (which gets the same feed) would have been like.
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same with 9NNSW
[quote=“Radiohead, post:1451, topic:1198, full:true”]If you think the Townsville viewers would have been confused, I shudder to think what the reaction in Ayr, near Townsviile (which gets the same feed) would have been like.
[/quote]Their head would’ve literally exploded I’d imagine! 
[quote=“NQCQTV2, post:1447, topic:1198, full:true”]Just saw SCA using a specialised 9 The Block sponsor board.
Didn’t cap it. It looked like a proper 9 style sponsor board, however it had the normal SCA voice over.
Does 9 Metro use specialised The Block sponsor boards?[/quote]WIN used to do specialised sponsor boards with The Block and The Voice also.
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Heads exploding in Ayr is a common thing I hear.
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Almost as common as crime is to the people of Mount Thomas.
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I believe that’s improved the past few years, virtually non-existent these days.
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I’ve been watching a little bit of SCA 9Gem tonight for probably the first time since SCA took over the channel.
I’ve noticed that the ad timings seem to be out by 0.5 seconds, with the very brief start of the metro ad shown before the local ads start.
I also saw a sponsor board starting on the metro feed which SCA cut to the old version of the Gem ident, from before the 9 dots were added.
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It probably won’t happen again now that I’ve started recording, but I’ve just arrived home and turned on 9 News Now, and SCAs ad timings are out by a good 10-15 seconds.
The ad break begun with a Nine promo for Doctor Doctor, which cut abruptly to local ads.
Then at the end of the local ads, we returned to 9 News Now mid-conversation in the “chat room” segment.
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Just after I started recording, this happened at 4:02pm, just after the Afternoon News had started.
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