[IRCA] More WINS silent periods

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kind of a Good News - Bad News story from Radio World News Bytes


Most stations can turn off for overnight repairs without too much 
fanfare, but not in New York.

AM news station WINS found itself the lead item in a tabloid news column 
this week because it plans to shut down for several hours over the 
course of several nights to go digital.

"For about 10 more days through the end of August, WINS will be off the 
air from 12:30 to 4:30 a.m., so engineers and technicians can do the 
work needed for the station to start broadcasting in high definition 
(HD)," the New York Daily News columnist David Hinckley wrote.

He quoted the station's Mark Mason saying, "We hate to go off the air 
any time, because even though late nights in August are one of our 
lowest listening times, there are still plenty of people out there. But 
this needs to be done for us to switch to HD, and it's not the kind of 
work that can be done while 50,000 watts are jumping around."

WINS will continue to stream online and can also be heard on the FM 
multicast signal of WWFS(FM) in the market. "Should a major news event 
happen, said Mason, WINS will interrupt the work and turn its signal 
back on to resume broadcasting," the newspaper reported.
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