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Southern California Wildfires Test Broadcasters’ Resilience
Looking southeast on Thursday from the Poole Tower Complex at Mount Wilson. (Adam Hazell, regional director of station operations, Scripps)
It remains a trying time for broadcasters in southern California. Power remains out at Mount Wilson, L.A.'s broadcast nerve center. A coordination effort is ongoing among the area's broadcast engineers to manage generator refueling. We have new footage and photos of how close the flames came to equipment atop Wilson on Thursday. 91.5 KUSC(FM), on Mount Harvard just to the south, also details its current status, transmitting on reduced power.
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“Radio Bridges” Contest Connects Global Stations for Climate Action
The World Radio Day 2025 theme focuses on radio’s role in addressing the climate crisis. COPEAM, one of the event’s partners, has organized an international contest to support collaboration between radio stations in different countries on the subject of climate.
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