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#171304 13-Apr-2015 13:59
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No world release at same time for New Zealand.

It got to the red ratings part, and after that came up that there was a problem and to tune in to tonights one.

Does sky get a copy, or are they recieving it as they broadcast, which means more of a chance of something going wrong?

If anyone recorded it this afternoon, then need to set up another one anyway, as it just would've recorded one of those on set programs.

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well this is awkward




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  #1328389 20-Jun-2015 16:43
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TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES DELAY GLOBAL SIMULCAST OF GAME OF THRONES

MEDIA RELEASE

13 April 2015

SoHo’s planned simulcast of the first episode of Season Five of HBO’s Game of Thrones was delayed today due to playout issues experienced by the international company supplying the live feed.

SKY has been working with the HBO endorsed secure supplier to test their delivery system over the past couple of weeks and the testing had been faultless.

However due to a technical issue with the supplier’s system as they were attempting to deliver the live feed for satellite transmission this afternoon the playout failed. Their efforts to rectify the situation were unsuccessful and therefore the episode was unable to be simulcast in New Zealand.

A secondary file download of the episode for the 8.30pm screening on SoHo and NEON meant that SoHo was able to access and screen the episode on SKY channel 010 at 3.35pm.

“It is incredibly disappointing for all of us that this has happened today, however we have worked with our suppliers to ensure that we were able to get the full episode to air as soon as we could this afternoon,” said SKY CEO John Fellet.

“There will naturally be some fans who were upset they were unable to watch the simulcast at 1pm and we are working with both HBO and the supplier to identify the problem so that it does not affect future 1pm simulcasts during the remainder of the season.”

MY SKY series links assigned to the 1pm screening were transferred to the 3.35pm broadcast.

As a secondary file is used for the 8.30pm screening on SoHo and NEON neither of these broadcasts are affected by the difficulties with the live feed.

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