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Tx test begins at 14:30GMT / 15:30 BST / 16:30 CEST. Helpline operational from 14:15 GMT

The Il Trovatore production schedule is now published here and on the http://www.satfacts.co.uk website. We apologise for the late arrival of this document from the USA.

Following email feedback, it appears that AB3 was not as strong a signal as usual this morning. Having investigated, the UK teleport were not running at our usual power on the AB3 uplink. Rest assured that I will be at … Continue reading →

All services down at 09:01 GMT – No calls.

All services established and stable at 08:24 GMT

Testing begins on IS10-02 (Eng Only) and AB3 at 08:30GMT/09:30BST/10:30CEST. Helpline operational from 08:15GMT

All services down at 20:05 GMT. We appologise for the vision disturbance at 19:18GMT and hope it did not spoil your audiences enjoyment too much. See you on the next one.

Vision disturbance at 19:18GMT traced to frame rate converter in USA before encoding for satellite / fibre transmission. We frame rate convert as US uses 1080/60i for capture and we need 1080/50i for UK and Europe

Vision disturbance at 19:18GMT. Seen in USA and all over Europe. Suspect problem before uplink in USA.   If we see again we will switch to reserve transatlantic connectivity.

NY reboot uplink/fibre encoders at 14:52GMT causing brief vison/audio disturbances. All services relocked and stable again at 14:53