Walt Disney Co.’s KABC-TV Channel 7 station, which makes use of communications towers close to Mt. Wilson, misplaced its over-the-air sign Friday morning because the Eaton hearth continued its rampage via mountainous terrain.
Individually, radio station KLOS-FM 95.5, which additionally makes use of transmission services within the Angeles Crest Forest, additionally went off the air in a single day.
KABC confirmed that it was “experiencing an issue with the transmitter,” with out offering particulars of the issue.
The Eaton hearth got here perilously near the large phalanx of mountain-top transmitters on Thursday. Tv and radio broadcast engineers, together with for Nexstar’s KTLA-TV Channel 5, Paramount’s KCBS-TV Channel 2 and KCAL-TV Channel 9 and different native stations, together with LAist/KPCC-FM 89.3, sweated all through a lot of the day as they watched the fireplace’s progress towards their crucial infrastructure.
The transmitters escaped injury by flames.
Solely viewers who depend on the over-the-air antennas for tv discovered the station blacked out.
The corporate directed viewers to the KABC web site and streaming apps to look at the extremely rated tv station.
In the meantime, Meruelo Group’s KLOS-FM 95.5 radio transmitter controls have been disrupted round 2 a.m. Friday and the station went off the air. Station engineers discovered that the generator it was utilizing for backup energy had run out of gas, in keeping with a station govt.
