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:
YES is now back on most systems and on the alternate feed on the YES App; Sinclair master control continues its efforts to return our signal to all systems: https://t.co/aRu5PF6iD2 pic.twitter.com/dvXY0fXqxB
— YES Network (@YESNetwork) July 21, 2022
Fortunately for everyone involved, the issue didn’t last long.
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.
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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.