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phoxmulder t1_j24zmrf wrote

Your CBS Affiliate had their encoder set wrong.

Should have called the station engineer during the broadcast, they could have fixed it pretty quick. (Their Master Control should have noticed right off the bat)

Or it was a problem with your TV's Dolby decoding, and the engineer could have walked you through how to fix it (most likely scenario, otherwise thousands of people would have been calling them to complain)

Worked at a CBS Affiliate for 30 years, one station we ran, we had to manually switch their encoder from 2.0 audio during the day to 5.1 audio during CBS Primetime, then back again.

This was a number of years ago, before it could be automated.

It's not a conspiracy, I promise.

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oobraphone t1_j25pjic wrote

I experienced the same issue.

Our local CBS affiliate says their engineers looked into the issue and CBS Television Network "set the audio up different than usual. The voice-over portion of the audio track was aired on the left, center, and right audio channels, and the music portion only aired on the center channel (which is more for use in home surround sound setups)." They suggested using TV menu options to activate surround sound.

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Walk1000Miles OP t1_j25r3sp wrote

Wow!

Thank you for researching this and posting the response.

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Walk1000Miles OP t1_j255wks wrote

This makes so much sense. Thank you so much! We contacted the local affiliate also.

And yikes! I don't believe in conspiracies.

Never have, never will.

Edit

Added that we contacted the local affiliate.

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