Is WHNE out for long?

[km1125]

Anybody know what's going on with WHNE? Are they still on the air? I haven't been able to pick them up since the storm. Could it be just a power issue (and they don't have a generator?) or could they have taken more damage from the storm?

[km1125]

Can anybody else pick it up? Is it just me that can't?

[audiophile]

no power

[MWmetalhead]

Yup. A number of AM stations in the area were either off the air or broadcasting dead carriers last evening.

Not much rain or lightning but we had a ton of wind in my locale around 6p last night. Probably had a couple gusts to hurricane force.

DTE restored my power remarkably quickly; got a message stating it was restored around 1PM. I was thrilled. I was expecting it to be out for at least another day.

Sure looks like a weak tornado touched down in Richmond, per video footage I've seen. That wasn't just a "gustnado". The existence of a funnel from the cloud base can be seen in the video.

[edj]

All of the Birach stations are still down except for WNZK. That’s not a surprise.

[szmigiel]

Just noticed that RF31 isn't broadcasting any of the NextGenTV stations in ATSC 3.0, they are all blank as well.

[km1125]

Still no reception from WHNE. Looked at the DTE outage map and there's still a few outages reported in Oak Park, so perhaps they're one of those.

Also noticed that I'm not getting any of the subchannels on WTVS. I get 56.1, but none of the others. Are they also running on low power? (not necessarily the transmitter, but the operations).

Also noticed that WXYZ added another subchannel... at 7.5

[szmigiel]

WHNE is back this morning

WTVS has been having issues these last few days, they must be fixing something

And 7.5 another shopping channel just what isn't needed.

[km1125]

Yep, everything back to normal here now