September 1, 2017 — The Summit Daily ran a full-length article about SPRTV’s need for a new power line and our campaign to fund it.
August 2017 — Breckenridge Creative Arts Magazine recently ran a great profile of SPRTV.
January 19, 2015 — A January 19 Summit Daily article said the following about the Summit Foundation including $50,000 for SPRTV’s power line replacement project in its 2014 Fall grant cycle:
While some organizations apply for grants every year, others only apply in certain years, when they have a project coming up. Such was the case with the Summit Public Radio & TV (SPRTV), a local nonprofit that keeps Summit County connected to the outside world via antenna television and radio signals. The group was awarded a grant that will go toward replacing 3 miles of cable to the station at the top of Bald Mountain.
“We got huge support, I was thrilled,” said Sue Greene, vice president of development for SPRTV, about The Summit Foundation grant. Though it’s only a single part of the fundraising necessary for the project, knowing that it was approved “is pretty amazing,” she said.
See the entire article at http://www.summitdaily.com/news/14709786-113/the-summit-foundation-announces-largest-grant-cycle-increase-in-its
KUVO Off-the-Air, Repairs Scheduled
SPRTV would like to announce that FM/HD radio station KUVO is currently off-the-air. Unfortunately, electronics equipment owned by KUVO has unexpectedly failed and will need to be replaced.
After obtaining the necessary repair gear this week, Gary, our VP of Engineering and Site Maintenance, and Colin, will attempt repairs this Saturday, Jan 28, weather and safety permitting.
Note these technical issues are not related to other station outages caused by wind damage on Bald Mountain back in early January.
SPRTV again apologizes for any inconvenience over the last several days, would like to thank all our KUVO listeners for their patience.
We’d also like to take the opportunity to remind everyone that you can always stream KUVO’s programming online.
Picture of Damage on Baldy
High winds during the holiday season caused the Old Head End shack to blow over and the receive antenna for KBCO to topple. The shack did not house any SPRTV equipment. It was being used by others. However, the damage to the antenna has caused an outage of KBCO. We will continue to keep you updated as repairs begin.
High Winds on Baldy Damage KBCO Antenna & Channel 10 Back to Full Power
Today Gary and our new engineer, Colin, snowmobiled up to the electronics site. They found the antenna that receives the KBCO signal from the front range on the ground. Minor damage to the antenna, but the tower needs repair. Needless to say, KBCO will be out until that damage is repaired. Gary and Colin will try to get up there this weekend to accomplish the repairs, but only if the weather allows them and it is safe to do so.
They did manage to restore channel 10 digital TV to full power. Your signal should be as it was prior to the most recent problem.
Our ISP still hasn’t restored our Internet service so the webcam is still stuck on an image from a few days ago. We don’t know when they will restore service.
Gary took a number of pictures while he was up there today. I’ll post them on this blog as soon as I get them.
Channel 10 Operating at Low Power
Channel 10, one of our digital TV offerings, is operating at low power. Probably the high winds did something to the antenna. Gary and Colin will be going up to the site tomorrow to evaluate, and hopefully correct, this problem, as well as deal with other problems caused by the weather. As usual, thanks for your patience.
The Power is Back On
The power outage has been corrected and we now have all of our stations back on the air. Unfortunately, our Internet Service Provider is still down, so our webcam is stuck on an old image. Hopefully they’ll correct their problem soon.