Powercut at Grays Inn Road: 4/4/22

[AaronLancs]

Interesting. Could we be in for day 2 of disruption? I would suspect so unless the power comes back on in the next hour or two.

I suspect contingency plans were made yesterday should the disruption continue, but then again they may just take the jaunt back up to Leeds if needs must and it worked yesterday.

The contingency plans would have been long-standing, they wouldn't have just made it up yesterday.

And yes, if Leeds worked OK yesterday why would they need to do anything else today? No point undoing all yesterday's contingencies. Even if the power is back I'd imagine they'd have Leeds ready as a back up, or decide later in the day whether to fully return

Another thing that came to mind yesterday is why they didn’t use the studio that they use for the regional political programmes at Millbank? Unless that’s been addressed and I’ve just missed it.

As I suggested a few pages ago having a backup plan that is also in London isn't any good if the problem affects lots of London - if the power cut included Millbank for example.

Leeds is also home to one of ITVs two playout sites so it's the obvious place, if GiR and Millbank and Chiswick are all out of action, ITV can come from there

Yep the Northern Transmission Centre is based in Leeds and acted as a backup centre with switching Lines before when other studios failed (eg: Granada had tech issues a few years back).

Sorry to slightly off topic. Why was Leeds chosen as the Northern Transmission Centre and not something like Manchester? Also how long have they been the Transmission Centre? As I said sorry to go off topic.