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Storm outages
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Monday Morning Update:
Nutmeg Community Television in Farmington has returned to the air sometime before 5AM this morning (and after 10:30PM Sunday Night). The Bulletin Boards on Both Channel 5 (Community TV) and Channel 96 (Government Access) are fully functional, except the I-84 Farmington Traffic Cam is still down. The Classic Arts Showcase is on their Channel 95 (as per usual), albeit without the Nutmeg TV logo.
As of 5:40AM Alan Camp said on the air on WRCH that there is still no power at the CBS Radio Building in Farmington.
It's incredible to me that the 4 CBS stations have been on generator power for 9 days now. I wonder how much it costs to keep the generator humming. I hope CBS doesn't start cutting jobs to pay for the generator fuel. Also I haven't noticed a difference in signal strength, but I heard rumors that WTIC (AM) is running at less than their normal 50,000 watts.
Nutmeg Community Television in Farmington has returned to the air sometime before 5AM this morning (and after 10:30PM Sunday Night). The Bulletin Boards on Both Channel 5 (Community TV) and Channel 96 (Government Access) are fully functional, except the I-84 Farmington Traffic Cam is still down. The Classic Arts Showcase is on their Channel 95 (as per usual), albeit without the Nutmeg TV logo.
As of 5:40AM Alan Camp said on the air on WRCH that there is still no power at the CBS Radio Building in Farmington.
It's incredible to me that the 4 CBS stations have been on generator power for 9 days now. I wonder how much it costs to keep the generator humming. I hope CBS doesn't start cutting jobs to pay for the generator fuel. Also I haven't noticed a difference in signal strength, but I heard rumors that WTIC (AM) is running at less than their normal 50,000 watts.
More than a week later.... ABC radio news at the top of the hour this morning ran a story about thousands of electrical customers still in the dark, and the story included a sound bite from the first selectman of Ridgefield.
From Joe Amarante's Life column in yesterday's New Haven Register...
"So we turned back the clock and listened to transistor radio (a frustrating thing since much of radio has been bled, milked and castrated by conglomerates). For days, Ray Dunaway of WTIC-AM held viewers’ hands for storm coverage and sharing of observations."
http://newhavenregister.com/article...4eb54fe1489ec460093366.txt?viewmode=fullstory
From Joe Amarante's Life column in yesterday's New Haven Register...
"So we turned back the clock and listened to transistor radio (a frustrating thing since much of radio has been bled, milked and castrated by conglomerates). For days, Ray Dunaway of WTIC-AM held viewers’ hands for storm coverage and sharing of observations."
http://newhavenregister.com/article...4eb54fe1489ec460093366.txt?viewmode=fullstory
MarcB said:
Monday afternoon update: Power is out once again at Nutmeg Community Television in Farmington. Since programming doesn't begin until 5PM they didn't even get to air any programming before they lost power again. The 2nd outage happened sometime between 10:10AM (when I went out to do some errands) and 2PM (when I got home from errands).
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