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Topic # 109934 29-Sep-2012 18:53 Send private message

Hawkes Bay and West Coast going tonight at 2am...

I assume its simple as someone at Kordia hitting some off switches? or would they do what Sky did and display a message for a few hours noting its shut down?

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  Reply # 693471 29-Sep-2012 20:04 Send private message

If you wait until tonight at 2am I guess you'll find out (assuming you are in one of the areas mentioned).







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  Reply # 693477 29-Sep-2012 20:33 Send private message

Lol nope am waiting till Dec 2013

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  Reply # 693515 29-Sep-2012 23:42 Send private message

Kordia and JDA will take down the main sites at 2am. Some small sites ie translators will be switched off progressively in the next week but the main focus is to remove the signal to sites. Back ups and bypasses need to be disabled too. There has been work behind to scenes to identify dependency’s in both these areas. I think the main ¨concern¨ is not the actual switch off of transmitters, but the viewers loss of reception afterwards and how it might play out in the media. 

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  Reply # 694354 1-Oct-2012 16:44 Send private message

How it should play out is:

You have had 2+ years to sort this out, you are a moron and don't deserve television.

Were they running any form of ticker on the screen of analog services up to the shutdown like they did in the US?




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  Reply # 694379 1-Oct-2012 17:14 Send private message

richms: How it should play out is:

You have had 2+ years to sort this out, you are a moron and don't deserve television.


I tend to agree with your sentiment, but there are always elderly people who just don't understand this sort of thing. You would hope, though, that by and large they'll have relatives who will sort this stuff out for them. Then you get people who just have their head in the sand and are completely unaware that anything like this is happening. I have very little sympathy for them.

Were they running any form of ticker on the screen of analog services up to the shutdown like they did in the US?

TVNZ has been running tickers on the central region on analogue about the ASO. Don't know about TV3, not sure if they even do regions.

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