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WHAM knocked off air

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dustintv

WHAM's six o'clock newscast had some major problems last night...the story from RNYN:

WHAM-TV went in to a bit of a crisis mode tonight. The station experienced a power failure during their live 6:00 newscast. A strong thunderstorm was located nearby the station when cloud-to-ground lightning hit somewhere outside or possibly directly on top of the studio building. This occurred while the station was rolling a pre-taped package. All video with lost, accompanied by static noise and vertical/horizontal alignment problems. The time/temp bug on the screen turned a multitude of colors before being lost completely. After the package completed with video restored, the live shot switched back to the newsroom where Jane Flasch was standing awaiting instruction with of course no IFB or any way of telling she was on the air. At one point she asked "Are we on?" The station put up a technical difficulties slide where it remained for approximately 5 minutes. After a few commercials rolled, the newscast continued from the newsroom with limited lighting and no graphics or music. Don Alhart informed us that the station had indeed taken a direct hit from lightning and was running off of generated power.
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I wasn't home yet, anyone see the incident happen?
 
I was driving through that storm. Rained cats and dogs and lighting strikes all over. It's no wonder 13 went off the air. One would assume that WHAM TV has a generator at both its transmitter and building. Why it didn't kick on (if they have one) who knows?
 
WHAM remained on the air, they just had to put up a technical difficulties slide because all of their computers went down at once. No run down, no graphics, nothing. They had to break away from the broadcast to get situated so that the newscast could continue.
 
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