Universal Kids HD (SPROUT) channel 6062 broken

Channel 6062 is exhibiting strange behavior where it will always start with the same, apparently 'forced' commercials, then get 'stuck' and not play anymore. I can verify the same behavior with both Spectrum TVE and Wow! TVE using both Apple TV and Web player. I don't recall watching this channel previously where it worked properly, so not sure how long it has been broken.

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Can confirm. Same here.

Yea. when comercials come up it freezes.

2020/12/07 20:32:25.106492 [TNR] Opened connection to TVE-Comcast_SSO for ch6062 SPROUT
2020/12/07 20:32:25.108784 [HLS] Starting transcoder for channel 6062 from 192.168.0.7 (encoder=remux, resolution=, deinterlacer=, bitrate=4200)
2020/12/07 20:32:26.174115 [HLS] Probed live stream in 1.065181333s: h264 1920x1080 progressive 3884474bps
2020/12/07 20:32:26.215329 [HLS] Session ch6062-dANY-ip192.168.0.7 started in 31.916326368s
2020/12/07 20:32:47.073696 [HLS] Couldn't generate stream playlist for ch6062-dANY-ip192.168.0.7: Playlist has not been updated in 20.931518083s
2020/12/07 20:32:47.073861 [HLS] Stopping transcoder session ch6062-dANY-ip192.168.0.7 (out: 0s, finished: false)
2020/12/07 20:32:47.110704 [TNR] Closed connection to TVE-Comcast_SSO for ch6062 SPROUT
2020/12/07 20:32:48.240523 [TNR] Opened connection to TVE-Comcast_SSO for ch6062 SPROUT
2020/12/07 20:32:48.242135 [HLS] Starting transcoder for channel 6062 from 192.168.0.7 (encoder=remux, resolution=, deinterlacer=, bitrate=4200)
2020/12/07 20:32:48.423513 [HLS] Stopping transcoder session ch6062-dANY-ip192.168.0.7
2020/12/07 20:32:48.437239 [HLS] Couldn't generate stream playlist for ch6062-dANY-ip192.168.0.7: Couldn't find playlist: /media/simba/DATA1/TV/Streaming/ch6062-dANY-ip192.168.0.7-561694692/remux/stream.m3u8: stat /media/simba/DATA1/TV/Streaming/ch6062-dANY-ip192.168.0.7-561694692/remux/stream.m3u8: no such file or directory
2020/12/07 20:32:48.608597 [HLS] ffmpeg: ch6062-dANY-ip192.168.0.7-remux: Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?): No such file or directory
2020/12/07 20:32:48.608617 [HLS] ffmpeg: ch6062-dANY-ip192.168.0.7-remux:
2020/12/07 20:32:58.373910 [HLS] Probe failed for live stream after 10.131567862s and 14548992 bytes
2020/12/07 20:32:58.376280 [TNR] Closed connection to TVE-Comcast_SSO for ch6062 SPROUT

Have to admit I've never watched the channel.
Gives me an unavailable in this location when trying to play, so I scanned 6063 (west coast feed) and that one's working for me.

It appears that a fix has been implemented? I installed pre-release 2020.12.09.0112 and rescanned and channel 6062 now appears to be working properly on initial test.

Has this broke again? Kids realized this was missing

Yes it is gone now. If you find a website where the stream can be watched then perhaps we can add it back.

NBC reworked their TVE streaming a few weeks ago. The added both the Eastern and Pacific feeds for all channels that had them (previously users were only able to receive one), but in the process removed Universal Kids.