Not looking to make light of the drop outs, but the station was off for 4 1/2 years once. Presumably the only monitoring anyone involved is doing is to try to find out why it’s doing it (if they don’t know) and/or to confirm it’s fixed.

In the old days, the odd drop out owing to an aerial arcing might be something you had to live with - on Laser 558 for example.

Or the drop out when some guy smashes the place up.

when I was using a well know landline provider for superfast broadband, it turned out they only guaranteed that it was superfast when it was on. And that’s not that fast.

In 2025 that sort of reliability guarantee seems a bit unthinkable - imagine the telly going off during Love Island.