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Media Tornado Victims

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I haven't heard WGGC in Bowling Green the past few days because of what's been reported as a loss of their facilities and were the only Bowling Green radio station audible from Nashville that hasn't come back on after being knocked off. Are any other radio stations in the Bowling Green area or the rest of the path of this past weekend's tornadoes still off the air? Did WBKO (which I grew up watching on rabbit ears until the NTSC to ATSC 1.0 transition), WNKY, WKYU or any other TV stations in the path go off the air at some point as well?
 
WGGC was back on the air by at least Thursday afternoon around 5pm. However, it was not airing regular programming. It was airing a syndicated country Christmas show. The area of WGGC's studios, which is a highly trafficked area (US 31W By-pass) remains closed to traffic. I am not a regular listener of WGGC, and at this time I am not sure of the programming.

WBKO went off the air when the tornado hit. The studios are VERY close to the Creekwood subdivision where there were many of the fatalities. I am not certain how long they were off the air because we lost power at our home about 5 minutes later as the tornado tracked through the city. WNKY was live on the air with weather coverage up until I lost power.

In the aftermath of the disaster, WBKO was without internet connectivity due to major fiber cuts in the area and lost carriage with Youtube TV for WBKO-ABC until about midweek. WBKO-FOX feed was not impacted strangely enough. In fact, during the period, WBKO aired their local newscasts on both ABC and Fox feeds.

Somewhat ironic, WBKO-ABC was pulled from YTTV for a carriage dispute with ABC/Disney right in the middle of the disaster recovery - this should have been a consideration before Disney/ABC and YTTV shut off the channel with all the others nationwide. Not good PR to say the least.

There may have been downtime for WNKY and WKYU (on-air and/or online), but they were both on-air when my power returned around Noon Saturday (the day following the event).
 
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