WYTV loses power during bowl games

WYTV loses powerduring bowl games
YOUNGSTOWN -- People in the Youngstown area and parts of western Pennsylvania could not watch most of the Penn State-Auburn bowl game Wednesday because a local television lost power for about four hours.
WYTV, the ABC affiliate in Youngstown, stopped broadcasting about 1:30 p.m. because of a malfunction in the station's electric supply outside the building, News Director Pat Livingston said. Viewers only saw static during the outage that started about a half-hour into the Capital One Bowl, which Auburn won 13-9.
The station was back on air by about 5:30 p.m., an hour into the broadcast of the Rose Bowl between Oklahoma and Washington State.
The staff could not respond to viewers' questions about the blackout because the station's computers were down and its phones stopped working, Livingston said.