A Midweek Massacre
I usually love Wednesdays. It’s so obvious the weekend is near, and it usually recharges me to finish the week with gusto! Sometimes, things can find a way to ruin a perfectly good day.
Thunderstorms in the Spring are inevitable, and we are sitting right in the middle of pop-up alley. Storms seem to develop right on top of us and move east. Once in a while, these things lighting up the sky in beautiful displays of art will pick something random, like a TV station full of sensitive electronic equipment, and wipe out things in an unpredictable way.
Welcome to my world, on Wednesday June 10, 2009.
We got hit in a big way, in a bad way, and in the worst possible way. It knocked us off the air, off cable, and off satellite. It did not seem to have any rhyme or reason to what it took out, and just did its damage in a few milliseconds.
We worked each problem all day getting systems back online. Our main HD encoder is fried, and a replacement will be here Thursday. Servers lost sync with each other and our main program switcher is having issues. I hope we get things back to normal in the morning. Like one viewer told me on the phone bank, “The Government couldn’t pick a worst time to make this transition”. True for the transition, and certainly bad timing with the switch on Friday to be hit by a massive power zap!
But, the show must go on!
We have an annoying glitch in the video we are tracking down right now, and like I said can’t send out any HD programming this evening. We lost AP Wire service and odds and ends around the building. It’s just a pain, and a huge mess, but we will get all the issues resolved, so please be patient and stand by!
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