I recall Ten used to do their network playout in-house at Pyrmont. I feel their presentation certainly is and IMO have always punched above their weight in that field and to this day still have arguably the equal-best promo team along with Seven (or at least the latter used to as well).
The main master control, this cramped yellow-ish room with big external speakers, was featured on a couple of broadcast related news reports years back, the launch of Channel Eleven was one of them.
And pretty sure other similar rooms, such as the servers, Sydney studio control room(s) and media exchange have also been visible over the years, in the open atrium downstairs at TEN-10, most visible during the 2005-2008 set years.
Makes sense considering its just a delayed version of the east coast… basically a cache that gets played out on delay. Guys have enough on their hands keeping it up and running without needing to pay attention to the 2 hr delay feed…. Sorry to be blunt, but its hanging on by a shoestring from what I understand right now.
The episode didn’t get played out properly on the east coast and it was about 10 minutes before it started. Presumably with correct length adverts it will fill the 30 minutes until 10pm for the Late News to match the east coast.
It is the break-glass, last-case scenario, and if it means we get the feeds up tomorrow, so be it.
I actually could vouch for a static screen displaying a “we’re fixing” message. Pretty surprised that that wasn’t the option being used instead of just “airing whatever was cached”.
You’d still need to ingest into the systems a unique/friendly message - that might not have been possible based on what state the systems were in.
If you don’t have the network sources, maybe even a “we’ll be right back” message might not be available. There’s a lot of “should” there in terms of they should have something local, but if your failover has failed, you’re past that point.
I am going to say this is exactly whats happend but I dont want to go further cause Id be revealing too much and may risk friends employment and one of my contracts.
I mean, with the static screen, they definitely would have inserted on air if it was possible. Much easier to count how many feeds were down, and also basically act as a way to buy time.
The fact that all feeds began DIYing meant, as @Moe said, damage blew past that solution.
