Sinclair’s regional sports networks were briefly impacted Thursday by a power outage at their master control center. The issue affected every network, which knocked YES off the air during the Yankees-Astros game and also affected Sinclair’s Bally Sports channels as well.
YES sent viewers to their streaming broadcast, which wasn’t as impacted:
Fortunately for everyone involved, the issue didn’t last long.
Back on, if you are not at a TV (and then you might not care, but this is what I do for a living.) https://t.co/dEEYGjjPLB
— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) July 21, 2022
It’s wild, really, that Sinclair wouldn’t have some sort of protection in place if they run all of their channels through a master location.
https://twitter.com/JimNedelkaWords/status/1550166177414090755
Obviously they could have a system like that in place, but it could have failed too. Regardless, whatever was supposed to prevent something like this from happening didn’t work, which is the kind of system-wide vulnerability most companies try to avoid.
Thankfully for anyone trying to watch baseball this afternoon, they didn’t have to wait too long to get it back.