The on-and-off Maltese TV show

Now you see it; now you don't. No, it's not a game but the most promised and anticipated daily half-hour news bulleting on SBSTV Modern technology has improved our life, but when it comes to communication between SBSTV and PBS (Malta) we are not so that sure.

At this end, during the holiday period, we again experienced interruptions lasting several days Most of the time SBSTV was not ready to explain what was going on It is ridiculous for it to fill in the gaps by giving us weather reports from all around the world when it is the airtime reserved for the Maltese community Why not have a backup?

The Voice of the Maltese does not sit on its laurels. We ask and we investigate. We communicated with PBS (Malta) This what they said:

“We are informed that there were some technical issues in the international transport layer connecting the stations, which was bypassed to an alternative path from Malta once this was flagged and diagnosed Our technical team has been waiting for an answer for a couple of days

“Unfortunately, communication is taking a bit longer, and it was only earlier today that our personnel received a reply that this was also resolved from the Australian side Apologies if this has caused inconvenience, even if this was not fully within our control.

From our end we are oblivious to the situation with the final transmission since we do not have ways of monitoring it (apart from that, it is not within our remit) and have to rely only on feedback”

PBS concluded, “Nonetheless, we will keep striving and doing our utmost to handle any request and also propose a potential backup option to SBS.”

SBSTV were also contacted but as we went to press, although usually, they are very cooperative, we got no answer.

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