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[Jam Pro]

Yes you read that correctly, WMSN-DT and all of its subchannels are completely and totally out for OTA viewers.  They say that the power is out at the transmitter site, which comes as a big surprise.  When I toured the facility, it had enough generating capacity to keep the lights on in all of Madison!  Apparently none of those gigantic power plants belong to WMSN.

If you want to see the Packers game, you'll need to have a pre-existing Charter HD account (something that Charter has been unable to accomplish IME).  So in other words, start aiming your antennas to other towns.

This is an extreme embarrassment for WMSN, and IME the kind of mistake that gets people fired.

[Jam Pro]

They're back on now.  I'd like to know what knocked them off in the first place.  The website made a cryptic mention of the snow, but I can't imagine how a few inches of snow could knock one station off the air.  Especially when I consider that they just installed a whole new transmitter facility, presumably with al of the latest heaters, driers, radomes and other gear to keep the effects of the snow to a minimum.

And what's with the power?  If the storm threatened to knock down the utility lines, why wasn't the generator powering the transmitter by noon?  Going to offline power used to be SOP in my day--we'd go to genset to prevent induced lightning damage, and to burn off Diesel, which doesn't store forever and must be replaced with fresh fuel one way or another.  Running the generators made sure that the tanks had a supply of fresh, clean fuel, that our fuel suppliers remembered how to find us in case of a real emergency, and gave the gensets a good workout.

I just don't get it.  Someone fill me in, please.