sinklair wrote:I don’t believe their excuse. The fact is they knew it was a big game. With as many NBC stations owned by Nexstar, they absolutely should have identified a backup source before the game. They didn’t do it. That’s a failure of WOOD TV’s management and engineers. WOOD TV 8 is truly a Mickey Mouse operation.
This involved their CBS, ABC and FOX stations, plus WOOD’s subs were apparently off as well. Gotta love technology to save money.
BTW, Blake Harms hit all of the bullet points below on Facebook:
Just to peel the curtain back a bit on what happened to our signal during the game today:
WOOD TV8 receives our network feeds from a Nexstar hub in Indianapolis. That hub suddenly lost power this afternoon and their back-up source completely failed. We are the only Nexstar NBC station in Michigan, so that’s why we were the only part of the state and the only channel affected. That’s also why Peacock was mostly unaffected, as they get their feed directly from NBC.
We already have an engineer who works on Sunday and he was quickly able to figure out it wasn’t a local issue. Other engineers rushed in and the team was able to take the feed from a station in Florida. Thank goodness for that move from our engineers, because our in-house signal was not restored until late in the fourth quarter.
We are just as upset as you are for missing part of the game. From what I’ve been told, we will be working with corporate to ensure this never happens again. The timing on this issue quite literally could not have been worse in West Michigan, and we realize that.
Above all, we’re sorry it happened.
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Note to WGN... bring back Steve Cochran ASAP.
EDIT: Steve Cochran IS BACK AT WGN!!!