As I posted in the thread about the competition, there were some issues yesterday. Apparently part of the issue was related to some fall-out from the recent BC storms and the impact on the power on the UBC campus where the arena is located. There were reports of a "pop" heard in the arena
The only "media" in the arena are those there for TV broadcasting purposes, including CBC, Japan and Russia with a host broadcast stream being provided to the ISU for YouTube.
The ISU stream, which was (unexpectedly) open to those of us in Canada, went to black screen as Moore-Tower & Marinaro were about to skate and returned part way through Sui & Han. The ISU commentator, Simon Reid (or Read?) is located in the UK and he was quite literally "in the dark" about what was happening!
The CBC commentator group is split up - Ted Barton & Kevin Reynolds were in a studio in Burnaby; other commentators were linking in from home; or from the stands (Patrick Chan). The power issue knocked out the onscreen graphics as well as the link to Meagan Duhamel for part of the pairs event.
Danielle Earl is on-site as official photographer for Skate Canada and there may be one or two other photographers (e.g. one for the ISU). All other media are connecting virtually, including posing questions in the "mixed zone" to all skaters right after they compete and to the top three at the post-event press conferences.
Eventually things were restored to more normal with the graphics (including the TES tracker) returning to the ISU stream first. There remained a time lag however with the ISU stream being about a full minute ahead of the CBC stream.
The CBC stream, at the end of each event, went to some group comments - some of which weren't actually streamed...
They are trying and hopefully it will be better today
Links to yesterday's CBC SP/RD videos can be found on:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/sports
WARNING - if you go to the link above you will also see links to stories based on the results of the events....
