[BC] Re: Fox XDS closures

[Chad Owens]

The only issue we are having with Fox Sports is the new Dan Patrick clock
that is now in play when the XDS receiver is left on FSR and not switched to
The Dan Patrick Show. According to Premiere, it was strongly recommended
that we move to the FSR since the length of time Dan Patrick will be on a
separate channel is limited. Guess there is a 40 second delay issue with the
show and Fox only allows for a :30 break at the top of the hour, that is it,
not an additional :10 for a legal. Other than that, we have not had issues
with Jim Rome and the rest of the Fox Sports lineup. Guess FSR just changed
the entire lineup for hosts.

Chad Owens
Lotus Radio Corp RENO

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Kevin Trueblood <kevin at neptuneradio.net>wrote:

> I can't speak specifically for Fox Sports, but I can tell you that we've
> had
> some problems with missed closures on Delilah and Glenn Beck.  I've talked
> to the folks at Premiere a couple of times who have admitted the mistake
> and
> I know they'll fix it.  They've always been very reliable, in my
> experience.
>  Just bugs in the new system, I guess.
> I definitely found a "gotcha" at the end of the hours on XDS-captured
> shows.
>  For us, we delay Glenn Beck by one hour.  Two days in a row we missed what
> would have been the 9:58:50 closure.  Come to find out that they sent the
> closure 2 seconds late each day.  Well, our XDS didn't catch it because the
> "feed time" ends at 58:50, thus not capturing the closure that came in 2
> seconds later.  So our automation sat there waiting until someone caught
> the
> missed break and moved it on manually.  We put in a failsafe by
> hard-syncing
> the 58:50 break to 58:52, so if the closure is missed the automation will
> move on by itself.  If the closure is received the automation will already
> have moved on beyond the sync point.
>
> Kevin Trueblood
> Engineer
> Mid-West Family Broadcasting
> Madison, WI
>
>