- Dates
- 2016-01-15 – 2016-01-17
- Kind
- Broadcast and operations
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- organization/wvbi
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationcommunitymusicweather
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Freezing rain iced WVBI’s FM antenna on January 15, 2016, forcing the station to broadcast online while the antenna was thawed. WVBI reported that volunteers removed nearly an inch of ice and restored FM service the next day. The station then scheduled several David Bowie tribute programs and introduced student lunch reports during its morning newscasts.
Evidence limits
The outage, restoration, and programming are documented by WVBI’s own notices; the listener reply supplies a contemporaneous reception comment. No independent engineering log, weather observation, audience measurement, or recording is preserved here.
Sources
- WVBI reported that freezing rain iced its FM antenna, causing high reflected power, and that it would remain online-only until thawed; the station also announced student lunch reports on its morning newscasts. This is a first-party operational report, not an independent engineering or weather record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 09 · t009807
- WVBI reported that volunteers removed nearly an inch of ice from the antenna and that FM service resumed, then scheduled several David Bowie tributes; a listener praised the program afterward. The restoration and program schedule are station and listener reports, not independent transmission logs or audience measurement.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 09 · t009810
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “WVBI reports an ice-related FM outage and David Bowie tribute programming, 2016”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wvbi-antenna-ice-and-bowie-programs-2016/, accessed [date], citing WVBI, “WVBI on Ice; Roads on Ice; New News,” Beaver Island Forum, January 15, 2016. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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