The managers probably feel that doing a LIVE broadcast overnight would cost too much in terms of the overtime pay for the staff that would be required. Cheaper to just play out recorded programmes, which could be set to start playing at a certain time in advance, meaning nobody would need to be on site.
Just gonna drop this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMxX-QOV9tI
CaroLiza_fan
Actually I work in TV. There is a department called “Transmission” or “Tx” which basically watch the channel 24/7 to make sure there are no technical issues and sometimes put up graphics if there is an emergency message that needs displayed.
Since Eurosport in Poland isn’t in charge of actually broadcasting the live event to could just get sent the live feed, so they’d just need at most one extra person to receive the feed from America via France at the beginning and could leave once it’s set up.
When I worked on a Japanese commercial that was broadcast live when the feed ended they had the computer set up to automatically place up an end card. So it’s the set up that’s the hard part and Transmission would monitor it.
Perhaps the Eurosport satellite can only transmit so many feeds? I doubt that though...
It’s more likely they’ve just chosen not to broadcast it for whatever reason.
Sorry my inner nerd came out! xD