[BC] Power Glitch on Mt. Wilson

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Power Outage Knocks KABC Off the Air
 From 
<http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-me-briefs16jan16,0,7489109.story?coll=cl-tvent>Los 
Angeles Times Staff and Wire Reports

KABC-TV in Los Angeles was knocked off the air for more than three 
hours Sunday by a power outage at its Mt. Wilson transmitter.

William Burton, vice president of programming, advertising and 
promotion, said the outage from about 1 to 3:30 p.m. affected all but 
direct satellite viewers of the station.

"There has been some ongoing power maintenance" at Mt. Wilson, Burton 
said, "and somehow the backup equipment did not kick in as it is supposed to."

Burton said the snafu interrupted coverage of the U.S. Figure Skating 
Championships, which were rebroadcast when the station regained 
power. The programming change led the station to cancel several other programs.



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