It has just been announced by the Los Angeles County Fire Department all fire units have been pulled back and fire officials are expecting Mount Wilson to burn within two hours.
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Mount Wilson Expected To Burn
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Gary Lycan, who writes the radio column for the Orange County Register emailed me about 5:30 pm saying that channel 7 was then saying the fire was to hit Mt. Wilson as of sunset or later tonight. Gary was asking which FMs and TV stations would be affected, so I got the information for Gary from transmitter site expert Scott Fybush, and I don't think he'd mind me passing this on to you all tonight.
Jim Hilliker
Monterey, CA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Fybush [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 7:10 PM
To: Jim Hilliker; [email protected]
Subject: Re: FW: URGENT REQUEST/mt wilson fire
Hi Jim and Gary,
The following FMs are there (on Mount Wilson), though the stations with asterisks have
backup facilities at other sites:
89.3 KPCC, 91.5 KUSC, 92.3 KHHT, 93.1 KCBS-FM*, 93.9 KXOS*, 94.7 KTWV*,
95.5 KLOS, 97.1 KAMP*, 99.5 KKLA, 100.3 KSWD, 101.1 KRTH*, 101.9 KSCA,
102.7 KIIS, 103.5 KOST, 104.3 KBIG, 105.1 KKGO, 105.9 KPWR*, 107.5 KLVE
The following TVs are there or on adjacent Mount Harvard, and I know of
no backups:
2 KCBS, 4 KNBC, 5 KTLA, 6 KSFV-LP, 7 KABC, 9 KCAL, 11 KTTV, 13 KCOP, 18
KSCI, 22 KWHY, 28 KCET, 34 KMEX, 40 KTBN, 44 KXLA, 46 KFTR, 50 KOCE, 52
KVEA, 54 KAZA, 56 KDOC, 58 KLCS, 62 KRCA
Jim Hilliker
Monterey, CA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Fybush [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 7:10 PM
To: Jim Hilliker; [email protected]
Subject: Re: FW: URGENT REQUEST/mt wilson fire
Hi Jim and Gary,
The following FMs are there (on Mount Wilson), though the stations with asterisks have
backup facilities at other sites:
89.3 KPCC, 91.5 KUSC, 92.3 KHHT, 93.1 KCBS-FM*, 93.9 KXOS*, 94.7 KTWV*,
95.5 KLOS, 97.1 KAMP*, 99.5 KKLA, 100.3 KSWD, 101.1 KRTH*, 101.9 KSCA,
102.7 KIIS, 103.5 KOST, 104.3 KBIG, 105.1 KKGO, 105.9 KPWR*, 107.5 KLVE
The following TVs are there or on adjacent Mount Harvard, and I know of
no backups:
2 KCBS, 4 KNBC, 5 KTLA, 6 KSFV-LP, 7 KABC, 9 KCAL, 11 KTTV, 13 KCOP, 18
KSCI, 22 KWHY, 28 KCET, 34 KMEX, 40 KTBN, 44 KXLA, 46 KFTR, 50 KOCE, 52
KVEA, 54 KAZA, 56 KDOC, 58 KLCS, 62 KRCA
Jim Hilliker said:
The movement slowed down considerably, per the lone person still up on wilson. There is retardant all around the site, and the brush cut back. There is hope that if the fire does come in too fast, the damage may be limited.
From what I heard, KKLA has been using their back-up site on Flint Peak since yesterday afternoon.
Jim Hilliker said:
TBN is running a scroll on their satellite feed to pray that fire stays away from Mt Wilson and does not burn their transmitter site.
FMisDead said:
I was at TWR radio in Bonaire once when the 500 kw AM transmitter went off the air. The engineers prayed briefly, hit plate on and it went on the air. I can't argue with that.
This is what 98-7 just tweeted a few hours ago on Twitter:
987LA Remember! No matter wht happens, we'll b streaming live online@ http://987fm.com
I thought the 98.7 transmitter wasn't on Wilson, is it located nearby as well?
987LA Remember! No matter wht happens, we'll b streaming live online@ http://987fm.com
I thought the 98.7 transmitter wasn't on Wilson, is it located nearby as well?
The TBN scroll is national I got it on my loca TBN here in Cincinnati, Ohio.
radiojomo said:
If CC doesn't have backup sites for the other FM's - it might be in their best interest to put their highest rated station - KIIS - on 98.7 ... temporarily.
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If things get much worse, wouldn't it make more sense to simulcast KFI on 98.7?
Why ... it's already on 640...OCradiodude said:
They probably would want to preserve as much listenership of their FM's as possible.
Simulcasting would be the last thing they should do in that case.
KFI has an incredible signal anyway. Fortunately the two AM stations are providing good coverage of the situation, better than what TV can do.
And for what it's worth, KFWB should just stop trying to do a newscast and just simulcast KNX for the last two weeks until they become "News Talk 980". Release all of the KFWB anchors and send them out in the field to do reporting. No one listens to KFWB for news anymore, especially after they ditched the Hollywood focus a few weeks ago and went back to the regular news sounders after traffic.
And for what it's worth, KFWB should just stop trying to do a newscast and just simulcast KNX for the last two weeks until they become "News Talk 980". Release all of the KFWB anchors and send them out in the field to do reporting. No one listens to KFWB for news anymore, especially after they ditched the Hollywood focus a few weeks ago and went back to the regular news sounders after traffic.
Around the 5 and 6PM newscasts channel 7 made it sound like in a couple of hours Mt. Wilson could be taken over by the flames. If you have cable or satellite you are fine. If you receive your signal from an Antenna you might have to go to there website abc7.com. They made it sound like it could happen. Most of the Los Angeles stations are all on Mt. Wilson. KYSR 98.7 and KROQ 106.7 are the only stations that I know of that don't have there radio towers up on Mt. Wilson.
Where we live its not a big problem since some of our big stations like Jill FM, The Vibe 103.3, KRUZ 97.5, 104.7 and 99.9 KTYD aren't even Los Angeles Stations.There is suppose to be a KOST singal on 103.9. If you are in the eastern part of Ventura County there is suppose to be a 5 Watt transmitter in the Conejo area that I guess is a repeater for Kost FM. Kost sounds much stronger in our area on 103.9 vs. 103.5.
Where we live its not a big problem since some of our big stations like Jill FM, The Vibe 103.3, KRUZ 97.5, 104.7 and 99.9 KTYD aren't even Los Angeles Stations.There is suppose to be a KOST singal on 103.9. If you are in the eastern part of Ventura County there is suppose to be a 5 Watt transmitter in the Conejo area that I guess is a repeater for Kost FM. Kost sounds much stronger in our area on 103.9 vs. 103.5.
DavidEduardo said:
I'll bet the transmitter would have gone on if they had flipped the switch without praying first. If it had gone on after they prayed but without flipping the switch, that would have been something.
There is an FM station on the big KNX stick. Anybody remember the call sign? There is also the former Indy 103 in the Baldwin Hills.
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DavidEduardo said:
I think the final tube in that model was a 6WWJD6G/OD
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