WISN Equipment and Switching Failures

[Joseph S]

Alias switching problems from this week added  :bang:

[Joseph S]

More to follow, likely, from the past month...

5/22/2005 - Grey's Anatomy - Butchered the switch off the first commercial break for several seconds.

Then, butchered the switch off the second commercial break for several more seconds.

5/29/2005 - Grey's Anatomy - WI$N Hardware failure at 12 minutes in. Then we get SDTV for the next 6 minutes.

6/4/2005 - Bambi - Poor Bambi was slaughtered beyond all recognition by WISN. It appears the latest switcher doesn't know a thing about aspect ratio and kept flipping the damn switch after the commercial breaks repeatedly. It really doesn't take much to tell the difference between the crap non upconvert and the national feed even if they both look "not filling my screen" to the switcher. Unacceptable. This was explained well in advance by Disney on a national basis, yet they didn't know?

6/5/2005 - Deperate Housewives - Tons of glitches in the feed. Based on the hardware failure the week before my guess is this is their issue. Antenna didn't move and not seen on other recordings. No weather coming indoors either.

6/5/2005 - Grey's Anatomy - Tons of glitches in the feed. See above.

6/26/2005 - Desperate Housewives - After third commercial break they missed the first 5 seconds or so of the program with knock on the door and dialog.

6/28/2005 - Empire - Off the Air for the start, On the Air later at???