{"article":{"id":167466,"heading":"KPFK off the air, tech problems","author":"LA-IMC","created":"2006-07-08 18:33:52","modified":"2006-08-17 04:52:09","last_modified":"Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:52:09","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><html><body><p>At the time of this posting KPFK is off the air. Listeners this morning  report hearing the broadcast of Democracy Now suddenly switch to a classical Spanish station and then go to dead air.  KPFK is believed to be off the air due to technical problems with signal transmission.  There is speculation that interference from a station broadcasting on the same frequency in Tijuana may be the cause <br><br> At this time there is no word of when KPFK will be able to resume broadcasting. <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"At 2:25 pm 7\/7\/06 \r\nKPFK has been of the air since about 6:30 AM","numcomment":6,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2006\/07\/167466.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":167468,"heading":"UPDATE: Hear KPFK at www.kpfk.org","article":"A caller able to reach KPFK reports the problem is with the transmitter atop Mt. Wilson.\r\nEngineers for the station are on Mt. Wilson working on it now. \r\n\r\nThe station has received hundreds of calls from listeners.  KPFK is still producing programs and broadcasting on their website. http:\/\/www.kpfk.org\/\r\n","author":"LA-IMC","parent_id":167466,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-07-08 19:07:19","modified":"2006-08-17 04:47:28","fileurl":""},{"id":167495,"heading":"Wish they would say what was wrong","article":"I wish KPFK would tell everyone what happened that caused the outage and why it took so long to repair.\r\n\r\nWas it sabatoge?  \r\n\r\nLack of maintenance?  \r\n\r\nLack of money?  \r\n\r\nLack of money spent on and concern with maintenance?  \r\n\r\nLack of a part?\r\n\r\nDid someone not know what they were doing?\r\n\r\nDid some squirrel eat a wire?\r\n\r\nCould it happen again?\r\n\r\nMy recollection is that the station in the past year or two  spent some money updating the transmitter to avoid situation like this.\r\n\r\nBy not saying anything, station management is fueling speculation of a cover up.","author":"foo66","parent_id":167466,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-07-09 06:14:57","modified":"2006-08-17 04:48:28","fileurl":""},{"id":167551,"heading":"This is NOT News","article":"KPFK management isn't fueling speculation of some kind of coverup - LA IMC is fueling speculation of a coverup. This story isn't &quot;news.&quot; Man bites dog is news. KPFK NOT going off the air for six months Might be news. Someone is grinding an axe here. Who?","author":"bqeu","parent_id":167466,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-07-09 17:25:17","modified":"2006-08-17 04:45:08","fileurl":""},{"id":167636,"heading":"Nearly 10 hours of outage is news","article":"Somebody said:\r\n\r\nThis story isn't &quot;news.&quot; Man bites dog is news\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThere are commercial readio and TV stations in LA and elsewhere that haven't had 10 hours of unscheduled outage in decades.\r\n\r\nCommercial broadcasting equipment is designed to be as realiable as the phone system once was.\r\n\r\nAn outage this long is man bites dog in commercial broadcasting circles.","author":"reader","parent_id":167466,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-07-10 08:36:21","modified":"2006-08-17 04:48:58","fileurl":""}]}