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S4C knocked off air after London transmission centre evacuated due to fire

25 Sep 2021 1 minute read
S4C Headquarters in Carmarthen. Picture by Rhodri ap Dyfrig (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Welsh language channel S4C was temporarily knocked off air after a London transmission facility that plays out programmes and adverts was evacuated.

Television channels including Channel 4 and Channel 5 were also disrupted by the outage.

“Unfortunately following a fire at a center distributing our pictures in London we are experiencing technical problems – apologies,” S4C said.

Social media users said the transmission facility is White City, the former BBC headquarters which is now used by independent studios and production companies.

“Channel 4 and More 4 are currently off air due to a technical problem,” the channel tweeted. “We are working to restore them as quickly as possible.”

Viewers started reporting outages at around 6.30pm on Saturday.


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arthur owen
3 years ago

On Saturday you report on something that will happen tomorrow.

Robert G
Robert G
3 years ago

S4C, Channel 4, Channel 5 and others all out bcos of a fire in a room. It’s ridiculous in this day and age there is no back up plan and that all these channels are dependent on a small room somewhere.

SiB
SiB
3 years ago

at least check what you’ve typed before publishing, it’s happened today (Saturday) not Sunday……..

Stephen
Stephen
3 years ago

It’s okay…nobody was watching S4C lol

Lyn
Lyn
3 years ago

Still on S4C channel

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