Regional TV reception…. nothing an old stick of bamboo can’t bugger up
This just in from Mackay....
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This just in from Mackay….
A stick of bamboo managed to thwart viewing pleasure in the Mackay region last night, upsetting hundreds of viewers settling down to the latest adventures of My Kitchen Rules, The Project and Peter Rabbit.
When the power was interrupted to 443 customers for 40 minutes it took no less than 3 crews to investigate the hilly terrain to find the culprit: a wayward stick of bamboo connecting with power lines. Apparently it outed the local TV towers which had back-up generators that failed to fire.
In downton Mackay they were none too happy.
“We were watching Peter Rabbit,” said one mum. “My boys were not happy.”
“Not missing MKR! I have streamed 7live on the iPad and then used Apple TV to mirror it on to the TV,” said another.
“I was watching the CH 7 State news but when the picture froze, I turned off the TV and turned on my iPod to listen to a digital audio book while I did some hand sewing,” another viewer lamented.
However viewer Peter O’Brien arguably made the most valid observation, “TV broadcasters want to drop the regional areas and don’t want to pay for maintenance on equipment anymore.”
He was last seen standing on a chair holding a wire coat hanger out the window, singing “Hold me in your arms, don’t let me go…”
Source / photo: Daily Mercury
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6 Responses
No Net in MacKay? Unlike Nine which has geo-blocking based on postcode, Seven’s Net stream is national…
This is a bit far fetch there will be nothing left of the bamboo if it was shorting the power to ground!!
On the contrary, the current leakage might not be that great (depends on how much moisture is in the bamboo and whether it has rained recently). More importantly, when a leak is detected on a circuit, that circuit is automatically shut down thus causing the power outage that people experienced. It works like the RCD in your meter box.
Fair enough SS sounds plausible
Mmmmmmm… and in other news…
The backup generators rarely start as designed because they are not manually started, run and maintained weekly, as in the olden days. Seems this applies to Mackay as much as it does to TCN9.