WOFL in Orlando, Florida is reporting that Bright House Networks, the cable provider in the Orlando area, is (or at least was, as of a few hours ago) suffering an outage in television service due to a "corrupt database". The outage only affects television service; reportedly telephone and internet services are unaffected.
So my question is, how does a "corrupt database" interrupt television service on a cable system? I can see this impacting delivery of encrypted digital channels (the database with the encryption codes might not be accessible) but how would a database be involved in delivery of basic analog cable channel service?
So my question is, how does a "corrupt database" interrupt television service on a cable system? I can see this impacting delivery of encrypted digital channels (the database with the encryption codes might not be accessible) but how would a database be involved in delivery of basic analog cable channel service?
The database presumably contains playout details.
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