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Buddy Dornster
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Posted: Wed Jan 28th, 2009 01:34 pm |
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| How did towers in Arkansas fare this storm? Last big ice storm five came down.
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Ace
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Posted: Thu Jan 29th, 2009 08:57 am |
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| Hope everybody is okay - some pretty hard-hit areas down there.
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XGM
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Posted: Thu Jan 29th, 2009 10:22 pm |
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| I understand that KHOZ had to go on generators at both studios and tower sight.
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MediaMogul
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Posted: Sat Jan 31st, 2009 12:07 pm |
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I'm in Springdale, where it has been like an absolute war zone for the past three days. We have had no power at our studios, and when we have had power the phone lines have been out. Our stations (KUOA-AM and K287AN translator) have been off for substantial amounts of time just because of the different outages. We were on alternate power until that no longer was an option.
All of the Cumulus stations were off at one point or another. KMCK lost power on Monday and was off until late yesterday.
Clear Channel was able to keep KIX 104 and Magic on the air for most of the week. Hot Mix 101.9 and 933 The Eagle were off at various times.
All of the Butler stations (KXNA, KREB, KFFK) were off for most of the week... they came back on for short amounts of time.
The only tower casualty that I know of was KFFB in Fairfield Bay... They are a C2 at 106.1 FM. They lost their antenna and a fifty foot section of the 600 foot tower just north of Shirley. Poor Bob Connell (KFFB owner) had significant ice damage to his house as well... What he as gone through this week has made our off-air problems seem miniscule.
I'm glad this is finally over.
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Kent Clark
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Posted: Sat Jan 31st, 2009 05:19 pm |
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Glad to hear your power's back on, Mogul. A friend of mine at my real job moved up to Mid-MO from Fayetteville a few months ago, and he's still trying to sell his house there. He said he had some really nice trees that were destroyed because of the ice, but, other than that, he had only some minor damage to his house's guttering.
When I went to school in Fayetteville, I know we never had a crippling ice storm like this one unless it happened over the winter break. I can remember occasionally having an adventure going down Leverett on my way to class, but it never resulted in much.
I noticed KNWA 51's website indicated was off-air for awhile during this storm, too. That really shouldn't be much of a surprise, I suppose, since it's either on the same tower as KIGL/KMXF or just down the road.
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Musicczar
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Posted: Mon Apr 27th, 2009 06:27 pm |
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Yes KHOZ was fortunate enough to have working generators, a lot of stations in the area had problems with theirs. Hats off to their engineer Bill for keeping things running smoothly, so people were informed throughout the whole storm!
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