Re: 1965 Blackout Airchecks

[Bill Welch <bwelch@enercom.net>]

At the time Holyoke had a natural gas powered jet turbine and their municipal power plant.  When the switchboard operator saw problems on the grid he disconnected Holyoke and went to local power that is how we retained power.

 WHYN AM, FM and TV all had transmitters in Holyoke they still do tv is now WGGB.  I do not remember if they were sending  out programming as their studios were on Liberty St. in Springfield.  And I know as of a couple of months ago when WGGB lost power  the studios do not have a generator to power the TV
station.  But there may have been a small generator for the radio stations

Sid Schweiger wrote:

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> >>> just wanted to pass on the availability of a pair of classic Dan Ingram
> > airchecks from November 9 and 10, 1965... The Great Northeast Blackout.
>
> One odd thing that I remember about the Great Northeast Power Blackout is that in the City of Holyoke, the power never went out.  I think they had a municipal power company, which for some reason wasn't hooked in to the grid.<<
>
> On the WABC airchecks, the studio eventually lost its power (as you will hear), but the transmitter (in Lodi, NJ) never did, since that part of New Jersey was on an independent power grid.  Dan Ingram and newsman Tom Romano drove out to Lodi and did a show from the emergency studio  until 4 AM November 10th.