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.
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.
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