More Radio Stations Go Down During California Power Shutoffs, FCC Says
More radio stations reported outages as telecom problems decreased amid California public safety power shutoffs, the FCC Public Safety Bureau reported Tuesday. Twenty-one FMs reported being off air, up from four Monday. Two other FMs were out but sending programming…
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to another station, same as Monday (see 1910280050). Three AMs said they were out of service, up from two Monday. Cellsites out of service due to public safety power shutoffs decreased to 1.8 percent Tuesday from 3.3 percent a day earlier. Outages decreased in Marin County to 35.5 percent from 57.1 percent. Cable and wireline companies reported about 224,000 subscribers out of service due to power shutoffs, down from nearly 455,000. And 911 calls to Fairfax Police Department are rerouting to another public safety answering point with location information.