Anybody know how many [if any] stations were knocked off the air or lost antennas? I can remember DXing stations out of South Carolina in 1989 and nearby states when Hugo slogged ashore and hearing them go silent one by one as they got clobbered.
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Stations knocked off air?
- Thread starter Yabadabado1
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Disaster Information Reporting
System (DIRS) reports as of the 9th (they don't report what stations).
(Update) For October 12th 2014
Broadcast:
Television station status:
Florida
• There are 2 (no change from yesterday) TV stations reported as being out of service in the area
affected by Hurricane Milton.
FM Radio station status:
Florida
• There are 16 (down from 19 yesterday) FM stations reported as being out of service in the area
affected by Hurricane Milton.
AM Radio station status:
Florida
• There are 3 (down from 5 yesterday) AM stations reported as being out of service in the area
affected by Hurricane Milton.
System (DIRS) reports as of the 9th (they don't report what stations).
(Update) For October 12th 2014
Broadcast:
Television station status:
Florida
• There are 2 (no change from yesterday) TV stations reported as being out of service in the area
affected by Hurricane Milton.
FM Radio station status:
Florida
• There are 16 (down from 19 yesterday) FM stations reported as being out of service in the area
affected by Hurricane Milton.
AM Radio station status:
Florida
• There are 3 (down from 5 yesterday) AM stations reported as being out of service in the area
affected by Hurricane Milton.
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if you go to their facebook page, they say the site is is mangled up a bit, but the tower is standing.
and looking at their program schedule.. they used to have alot more paid programming.. very little now. i wodner what "network" theyre running which is listed as the majority of programming on the program schedule.,. just says "NETWORK" for the program
That would be programming from Talk Media Network.
WBRD AM 1420 has lost 1 of the 3 tower array.
From the replies, I guess not many station's towers went down. I assume the winds were less then expected or they finally managed to "harden" the tower sites to prevent a catastrophe from happening. Probably more went off the air from flooding/building-studio damage.
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