memnews1 25 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 News is just coming in that a small plane has struck the KCBD tower in Lubbock. The station is reportedly without power and off the air. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152938594117034 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToriElectra 291 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Yikes, let's hope no one got injured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memnews1 25 Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 Apparently it snapped the top half of it off (photo Jason Davis) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Eek. They're going to be off the air for a while unless they can get a technical assist from another station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country News 435 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 They're broadcasting from the studios of Lubbock Independent School District's student news. They say NBC programming will try to be restored. They were not using their graphics, but LISD TV News'. Watch Live: http://www.kcbd.com/story/28028671/1-killed-in-plane-crash-near-kcbd-tower-station-off-the-air Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4165 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Yikes, let's hope no one got injured. Unfortunately, the pilot was killed in the crash (details of that in the aforementioned KCBD link). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningNews 1293 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Hopefully they stay off the air. Only thing I hate about going to school in Lubbock is having to watch the low market news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProButtonPusher 230 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Hopefully they stay off the air. Only thing I hate about going to school in Lubbock is having to watch the low market news. So you want an entire TV station completely shut down because small market TV is soooo dreadful. Cool dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easttxtv 7 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Here's the 'before' of the station and tower, from Google Street View: http://goo.gl/maps/BUHpo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningNews 1293 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 So you want an entire TV station completely shut down because small market TV is soooo dreadful. Cool dude. No. I just don't feel like anyone is missing out on anything with KCBD being off the air. Their original studio is only slightly better than the temp set they're borrowing from LISD. Lubbock(small market TV in general) just sucks especially coming from a top 10 market. Sorry just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5275 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 No. I just don't feel like anyone is missing out on anything with KCBD being off the air. Their original studio is only slightly better than the temp set they're borrowing from LISD. Lubbock(small market TV in general) just sucks especially coming from a top 10 market. Sorry just my opinion. Somebody died. I guess that what he's getting at is that the station's shortcomings are entirely irrelevant in this situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvcg66b3r 97 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Hate to say it, but Channel 11 is done for. The tower may be beyond repair. Time for another subchannel shuffle! (It happens all the time in smaller markets.) Maybe Raycom could buy KJTV from Ramar Communications and move NBC to 34.2. It would also buy low power KJTV-CD and the construction permit for KLBB-LD. KJTV (RF 35): 34.1 FOX (720p HD), 34.2 NBC (720p HD), 34.3 MeTV (480i SD) KJTV-CD (RF 33): 32.1 News (720p HD), 32.2 Weather (480i SD), 32.3 Telemundo (720p HD) KLBB-LD (CP) (RF 48): 48.1 ThisTV (480i SD), 48.2 Grit (480i SD), 48.3 H&I (480i SD) Ramar would keep KLCW, KMYL-LD and KXTQ-CA. As always, pure speculation, may or may not happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WXmanTim 88 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Insurance, either from the policy covering the plane or the station's itself, will cover the cost of rebuilding their tower. It should also cover loss of revenue during the period the station is off the air (and therefore unable to broadcast commercial content). Talk of this being the "death" knell of KCBD is premature at best and downright insulting at worst, made by people who have no understanding of business in general and tv in particular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvcg66b3r 97 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 BTW, how has KCBD been doing in the ratings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1295 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 BTW, how has KCBD been doing in the ratings? I'm guessing they're top dog seeing as how KLBK/KAMC are being run by Nexstar and KJTV is a small-market Fox affiliate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningNews 1293 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 KCBD is the top rated in Lubbock/West Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1678 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Here's the 'before' of the station and tower, from Google Street View: http://goo.gl/maps/BUHpo I feel incredibly sick for the pilots and his family and thankful that there weren't any more fatalities. I guess the only saving grace is that the station is in a rural area. I shudder to think what would happen if this happened here with the towers being in a residential neighborhood. In 1998 while WBAL,WMAR and WJZ were installing their digital antennas on top of their candelabra 20 out of 24 bolts on a crane became loose and leaving the crane about to fall. Consequently WBAL and WJZ were evacuated and along with a hundred homes. WBAL broadcast from MPT and WJZ from WBFF for the day. WBFF and WNUV would probably be evacuate if something happened to their tower but they'd probably be able to remain self sufficient with the studios up in Hunt Valley and WUTB's transmitter is in the county. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WXmanTim 88 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 When I worked in Montana, the towers for both KFBB and KRTV stood right next to each other in the field behind the two stations. Directly across the city, at the top of the other bluff, sat Great Falls International Airport. There was many a morning when I saw airliners landing that seemed to just barely miss the tops of the towers on final approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundershock MN 169 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 FYI an "ad hoc" version of KCBD is back on the air via the KJTV-CD transmitter (RF 32.2/ VC 11.1). SuddenLink (like most other providers) is piping in KWES from Odessa/Midland. SuddenLink is also splicing in the KCBD newscasts from LSID "covering" the KWES newscasts on their feed. KCBD is taking this feed from SuddenLink and sending it out OTA via KJTV-CD as described above. And, they pulled the remainder of the tower down this evening. So, KCBD should be able to return to the studio soon. They were forced to evacuate due to a potential collapse of the remaining portion of the tower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvcg66b3r 97 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 SuddenLink (like most other providers) is piping in KWES from Odessa/Midland. They are also splicing in the KCBD newscasts from LSID "covering" the KWES newscasts. What about KWES' syndicated programming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundershock MN 169 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 What about KWES' syndicated programming? As far as I know it's being cleared in full. I don't believe any providers are "covering" or blacking out the syndicated programming. Only SuddenLink is "covering" the newscasts with the LISD newscasts. This was presumably done to create the "ad hoc" KCBD feed now being transmitted via KJTV-CD over the air. Not sure if the other providers have switched from KWES to this "ad hoc" KCBD feed or if they are even able to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanewsguy 509 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 KCBD now back in their studio http://www.kcbd.com/story/28039684/kcbd-team-back-in-studio-after-losing-broadcast-tower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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