Technical glitch in FTV’s YouTube video of presidential policy presentations angers TPP
Technical glitch in FTV’s YouTube video of presidential policy presentations angers TPP
2023-12-21
The TPP on Thursday held a press conference to voice complaints about the first televised policy presentation hosted by FTV the previous day. The party accused FTV of manipulating the footage of the broadcast to cut out more than 40 seconds of remarks by Ko Wen-je. But FTV explained that what actually happened is that YouTube suffered a glitch that caused a lag of 44 seconds. That in turn was automatically deleted by the video platform in its final upload of the video. FTV says that it re-uploaded the footage to the platform as soon as it discovered the fault, rejecting claims that it had intentionally tampered with the video.
Ko Wen-je’s campaign team on Thursday held a press conference to voice complaints about the previous day’s televised policy presentation hosted by FTV. They say 44 seconds of the footage is missing from the broadcast uploaded on YouTube.
Vicky Chen
Ko Wen-je’s campaign spokesperson
As a broadcaster, why is FTV removing such important footage? Why are they editing out from the broadcast they uploaded? We demand an answer.
Ko’s camp was aggrieved, accusing FTV of deliberately editing out parts of the presentation. The missing footage happens to be of Ko speaking on his social housing policy, a key point on his platform. FTV’s online news department manager Scott Chen personally went to the press conference to offer an explanation.
Scott Chen
FTV online news department
We were watching the live broadcast of the event as it was happening. And so during those 44 seconds, YouTube experienced lagging issues. It’s like when you’re watching a video and it stops playing. Later, in the livestream upload, it looked like it had been edited out. But what happened is that when YouTube packages livestreams for upload, it automatically removes any laggy parts. So that’s why that part disappeared. Did we cut the part out? No. We don’t do that. And there’s no need to go out of our way to stir up trouble and cut 44 seconds out of the upload.
Chen said that FTV’s outgoing signal was stable, and thus the problem was likely on the receiving side, which resulted in lag. That caused YouTube to produce a video with a shorter duration than others, without any human involvement. Chen pointed out that FTV’s broadcast on Facebook had not been affected by the technical problem and therefore featured the missing footage.
Scott Chen
FTV online news department
The outgoing signals for YouTube and for Facebook were the same. So why would we cut off 44 seconds just from the YouTube version?
Vicky Chen
Ko Wen-je’s campaign spokesperson
As such a large news and media outlet, FTV should have informed us out of politeness that you were going to come here and give a response, admitting that there is indeed 44 seconds of missing footage on the FTV upload.
Ko’s camp said Chen had come uninvited, and continued to complain about the missing footage. FTV explained that after it discovered the glitch, it immediately uploaded a full version of the broadcast together with an apology. The Central Election Commission has also jumped into the row to clarify the facts.
Chen Chao-chien
Central Election Commission
Yesterday’s presidential policy presentations in audio and video channels provided by FTV and the official website of the Central Election Commission were broadcast entirely in accordance with the law.
The CEC said there were no irregularities with FTV’s broadcast and that the election was indeed fair and just.
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總統政見會YT直播"柯文哲44秒緩衝畫面" 民視:非人為因素
2023-12-21
週三晚上總統候選人政見會，民視在YouTube平台上訊號，因為接受端問題，短少了40多秒，柯陣營趁機開記者會大做文章。不過民視也立即澄清，同樣訊號源，在臉書播出就相當正常，懷疑是YT平台接受端的問題所導致，絕非人為因素。
柯陣營大動作開記者會，因為前一天，總統候選人政見會，民視在網路快新聞YouTube平台上訊號，短少了44秒。
[[柯文哲競辦發言人 陳智菡]]
“請問民視身為一個轉播的單位，為什麼會把如此重要的畫面被隱藏，而且是剪輯之後再播出？我們需要一個答案。”
柯陣營憤恨不平，質疑民視YT轉播，是否為故意剪輯。因為短少的部分，剛好是柯文哲在闡述他引以為傲的社會住宅議題。不過，民視也由網路部經理陳光中親自到場說明。
[[民視新聞網路部經理 陳光中]]
“我們在現場同步觀看那44秒的播出的時候，YT是呈現一個lag(延遲)，像是大家常常看影片的時候跑不動的情況，最後像是被一刀剪過的，那個是在YT最後彙整封包上傳的時候，他自動就把中間lag的東西，是這樣子因此把它消失掉、剪掉了嗎？我們沒有、不會、也不必去做一個惡意剪掉44秒。”
陳光中澄清，訊號都持續送出，但疑似在平台接收端，出了問題，導致訊號延遲，最終平台才會呈現短少秒數的情況，絕非人為因素。況且一樣的訊號源，在臉書上播，根本沒問題。
[[民視新聞網路部經理 陳光中]]
“送給YT跟送給FB是同一套東西，那我們為什麼要在YT的呈現上面去剪掉44秒？”
[[柯文哲競辦發言人 陳智菡]]
“民視身為一個這麼大的新聞媒體機關，當你們準備要來回應的時候，應該是基於禮貌性的告知，的確有44秒鐘，在民視快新聞的連結上頭是被消失了。”
面對民視的說明，柯陣營一副陳光中不請自來，再來就是不斷堅稱，片段短少是事實，不過民視隨後就把完整的影片，立即上架，也發聲明表示遺憾。同時間，中選會也跳出來還原事實。
[[中選會副主委 陳朝建]]
“民視在昨天所舉辦的總統政見發表會，與中選會官網所連提供給外界的影音頻道，都依法完整的來轉播。”
中選會強調，民視的轉播，一切正常，選務一定是公平公正。
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