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WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game

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Honolulublue4life
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WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game

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Wood tv is getting creamed on Twitter right now.
Graham Wellington
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Re: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game

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MWmetalhead wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:35 pm A massive IT failure in Indianapolis appears to be the culprit.

https://www.woodtv.com/about-us/signal- ... mXOPzjlH4E
Amanda Porter was responding on Twitter that it was an NBC issue. Pretty clear it is a Nexstar issue.
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Re: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game

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Also, how does a TV station not have a continuity plan in place for big events like this?
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teetoppz28
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Re: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game

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Thankfully, I am watching on Peacock!
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Re: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game

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This may go down as the biggest snafu in West Michigan broadcast history.

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Re: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game

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hub and spoke. what a great business model. imagine the day it's not some stupid game? imagine it's a terrorist attack or school shooter? no one is at the helm
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Bull Shannon
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Re: Lions game blacked out screen

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MWmetalhead wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:31 pm I take it this issue is not limited to Xfinity and also involves their OTA signal? The dumbasses need to find a way to move the broadcast to either WOTV or WXSP.
WOTV and WXSP were also dark due to the issue in Indy.

I've been watching the game off antenna, and since it came back on it's just been the raw network feed from NBC — no WOOD-TV graphics or promos.
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Re: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game

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MWmetalhead wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:06 pm I hope everyone remembers this incident when Nexstar tries shaking down cable-sat providers for increased retrans fees.
Amen! This comment is beyond the truth and nearly sent me to the floor laughing because of the deep truth to it.
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Bull Shannon
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Re: WOOD TV goes dark during middle of Lions game

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MWmetalhead wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:07 pm I give their engineers credit for quickly resolving the issue. Job well done.

Are WOTV and WXSP still off the air?
It looks like everything is back to normal now.
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