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Dickie Mint
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Local TV NOC based in Birmingham
Nov 26th, 2013, 9:45pm
 
Story on tonight's Midlands Today about Comux firing up their National Operation Centre here in Brum.

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Reply #1 - Nov 27th, 2013, 11:33am
 
Looks a nightmare scenario if all the local TV stations (if any actually succeed) have to send their output to BM to be MUXed with different "Commercial channels" to be sent back out to various Arquiva main Transmitters or little "town based" ones and, as it says in the COMUX blurb, be entered into the CORRECT EPG for that area which may be served by several main Tx. Makes BBC regional opt out stuff look simple!
Incidentally I saw a post somewhere wondering if BBC +1 services could cope with regional news and HD (if it ever spreads past main network feed)
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Reply #2 - Nov 27th, 2013, 6:02pm
 
It's not a lot different from the BBC & itv centralised Code & Mux.  Their theory is everything through one centre, with a "hot" backup.  Though practically (you have to staff both centres 24/7, and all the kit is running 24/7 too) it's split between the two centres.  The BBC centres also have the Service Information, including EPG, for all muxes.
If one centre is taken out the other should automatically take over all channels.

I wonder if Comux have a second ops centre?  Or even disaster recovery?
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Reply #3 - Dec 23rd, 2013, 1:14pm
 
I see some captioned colour bars have apeared on the Freeviw MUX (well in London anyway who are due the first "Localnews station"
I thought that was BBC London but the new one will of course be filled with adverts for things we don't want paid for by an increase in selling price - as opposed to a Licence fee providing multiple channels on TV and Radio!

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