WISN Equipment and Switching Failures

[Joseph S]

Thanks. Unfortunately, they're worthless. My guess is they'll screw up again tomorrow night at 9pm. I have no idea how someone working at that station does not even know their own programming schedule.

This happens maybe once every six months with WDJT, rarely with WITI, rarely with WTMJ, and not obsevered with WB18. Yet, you can bet if a show is on after a SD show at 8 or 9, WISN will screw it up without fail

[Joseph S]

Another week of the WISN follies.

[Joseph S]

Nobody beats the Wiz at screwing up HD programming. For the third straight new episode they failed to flip the switch for Desperate Housewives. That doesn't include what they've done on the Saturday reruns of the other episodes they screwed up originally in 2004. :mad:

They've got the #1 show on Sunday and Wednesday and they still can't flip the friggin switch. Pathetic.  :Shoot:

[Mark Strube]

Grrrrrrr.... I agree. Recap of previous episodes, opening segment, opening titles, and THEN they finally switched Desperate Housewives into HD. That's too much.  :mad:

[Joseph S]

Frustrated with the lack of new HD episodes of Lost/DH/BL, WISN's crew of buffoons decides to flip the damn switch in the middle of Primetime live to promote some news promotion crap.  :guns:

[Joseph S]

Previously screwed up episode on rerun tonight at 9PM!!!!!

[Joseph S]

9:00 isn't the time to add in a news promo when you run longer than normal local commercials.

[Joseph S]

Like clockwork...

New episode of DH, #1 show on Sunday on ABC, and they screw it up again. How complicated is the switch flipping? :bang:

[Joseph S]

Looks like Eyes will be a frequent issue for the switching monkey. Can't go long on breaks as they're not giving the 5 seconds of buffer scenery needed for the almost never on time and always way too early out switch actions.

These switches out of programming too early for break are getting annoying. The audio is completely out of sync and you hear the same sound again with the switch.

[Joseph S]

More updates from the past month of failures added today. Can't wait to see how they screwup Desperate Housewives and Co. this week.  :bang:

[Milwaukee12]

I just wonder if anyone realizes how new the technology really is.  Do they have to be perfect all the time while working the bugs out of the system.  I guess that's why they are doing work on it the last few days.

[Joseph S]

The time to work out bugs was three to four years ago. Of course, they failed to go on the air at that point. Hearst Argyle is leading the nation is switch flipping screwups both here and in Boston at least, likely Pittsburgh as well. The equipment isn't failing but for a handful of times. The people running the equipment are failing. This happens on very rare occasions at CBS, Fox, and WB. NBC's screwups are more likely to come from NY. WISN's screwups are at home and they are failures of people not equipment. They fail to know their own TV schedule and thus never know when to flip the switch. If they don't trust their people maybe they should invest in a programmable option.

[Joseph S]

The switching for DH was near perfect last night. Unfortunately, Grey's Anatomy was switched miliseconds at the hint of a commercial or credit break to the duped SD audio and grayed 4:3 box in the HD frame.

[Mark Strube]

I don't understand... why in the world can't they just use an automatic system like FOX uses? Do they just pass the stream thru or is it re-encoded? If they did it like FOX with automatic switching and passing the stream thru, that would eliminate most switching errors and by its nature eliminate many video stream errors. (Not to mention possibly better video quality.)

[Doug Mohr]

I just wonder if anyone realizes how new the technology really is.  Do they have to be perfect all the time while working the bugs out of the system.  I guess that's why they are doing work on it the last few days.

When I have an employee that screws up as much as the switch folks do at WISN, I fire them.

Doug