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Looks at the webcams they still arn't back.

If that was actually him in the studio there would be more lights, a producer and also all the computer screens would be on, mainly the text screen!

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Right,

By the looks of it, they are all back at YH now.

1xtra webcams are showing a load of presenters/producers doing there normal thing and the Radio 1 webcam shows Westwood and his producer.

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I'm surprised they don't have UPS and a generator with auto start and switch over on mains power fail. (if they want one, company i work for is free haha).

After when they had moved from Radio1 studios to BH some listener sent in saying try 'Ctrl, Alt and Del' rofl.

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I'm surprised they don't have UPS and a generator with auto start and switch over on mains power fail. (if they want one, company i work for is free haha).

After when they had moved from Radio1 studios to BH some listener sent in saying try 'Ctrl, Alt and Del' rofl.

They do have a UPS... but apparently it was the UPS failing that caused the power cut!

They probably got the UPS bypassed pretty quickly but if the playout system had got corrupted as has been suggested that would explain why they stayed out of Yalding for a while.

Just to correct what a number of people have said based on what Vernon said when he came back on air - they weren't in Broadcasting House but Western House, which is home to Radio 2 and 6 Music.

Switching back to Yalding shouldn't necessarily mean a break in programmes. The way they would do it is to fade up the Western House studio as an outside source in the Yalding Studio, matching the levels, then get London Control Room to switch Yalding back into circuit. Then drop the fader with Western on it when Yalding are ready to take over.

This would have been how they got Western House on air cleanly off the back of the emergency tape. The "tape" plays from an area in BH controlled by LCR. They would have fed a seperate feed of the tape to Western, then switched Western into circuit on the Radio 1 distribution so they could leave it cleanly rather than crashing out of it.

(This is a reverse of how they hand between studios - Scott Mills fades up Zane Lowe's studio, then when Zane is up and running they switch his studio to feed the distribution directly. This is done internally without needing LCR to do the switching.)

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Best time was the Friday over Christmas last year. The pre-record stopped, the emergency system kicked in and it must have been on CD or something as it just kept skipping. It was Hi-Tack's Say Say Say on repeat for twenty five minutes. Must have took them a while to get Pete Tong's pre-record on as it came in ten minutes to his show.

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Moyles talks about it in his first book, i think the tape kicks in after 30 seconds of silence.

Must be time for Chris to play the silence game again to see how long before it kicks in ;)

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According to the video above, 35 seconds. That's really long, the one on OTC is like, 8 seconds.

Eight seconds would see it happening every time we had a gap after Newsbeat during pre-record!

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