catnapped 0 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 (photo from WGAL.com) "The crane has arrived at WGAL's Lancaster studios. After going inside to inspect the situation, engineers, GM, code inspectors are deciding whether to use it or prop up beam from inside." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 494 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 UPDATE: Yes, looks like still a fluid situation here for WGAL this morning. I have Dish Network here at my house in Dauphin County and they are just running the pure network feed. This morning, they had commercials but I still can't tell if I have WCAU or WBAL. WGAL has set up a temporary newsroom within the Lancaster Township Municipal Building and their ability to adapt with a very much bare-bones newscast like this is commendable. Will update you when I have more information. As Kim Lemon said online this morning online, "We are not the building, we are the news." -- Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Horn 78 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 You have WCAU. WGAL is simulcasting NBC10 until they can transmit from their building again. ETA: Looks like 10 is doing well to cater to the expanded audience as they've added Harrisburg and Lancaster to their local weather maps and weather discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catnapped 0 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Saying that they're leaning towards propping the beam up from the interior of the building. (from what was reported yesterday that beam was originally supported from the inside but that support was removed at some point in time and the beam was reinforced) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 494 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 @Sam Horn ... I am getting nothing but a blank screen of WGAL right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Horn 78 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 @Sam Horn ... I am getting nothing but a blank screen of WGAL right now. I'm guessing this is dependent on whatever feed your provider is grabbing. It appears OTA is WCAU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 494 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 @Sam Horn ... Gotcha. Thank you. Always a NBC10 fan here ... so I kinda wish that Dish Network would get their act together. Oh wellz. -- Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrelevator 28 Posted February 15, 2014 Author Share Posted February 15, 2014 A viewer on WGAL's live wire asked how they're getting an online streaming feed up without their master control facilities. WGAL replied: "As far as online - we're sending a satellite shot to our sister station WTAE, they're converting it to a stream and then we embed it here in the live wire and run a separate mobile stream." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVY 10 Fan 232 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Hope whatever damage is easy to repair so WGAL can get back to some semblance of normalcy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catnapped 0 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 (WGAL.com) "This is the beam that is supposed to support the roof. It will be used to prop up the collapsed beam and shore up the bldg enough to open the bldg back up. Although engineer would still have to sign off. Should take an hour.As of this morning there were 6 inches of standing water on the roof" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1679 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Condemned =/= beyond repair. It simply means "unfit for use". The next steps will be to have structural engineers inspect the roof and the rest of the beams in the building. If they don't find anything wrong, it'll be business as usual within a few hours. The fix could be as simple as replacing the faulty beam. EDIT: The extent of the damage isn't as big as it's been made out to be, either. Unless they find out that the building has somehow been structurally deficient for the last 58 years (It opened in 1956), I'd expect this to be a temporary inconvenience. Going to make a wild guess that, given Kansas City's proximity to Tornado Alley, that their truck is specially equipped as part of a contingency plan for a station losing the ability to use it's entire facility. WBAL's truck probably does not do as much as you think it does. Just because it's a "remote show" doesn't mean that graphics and other remote feeds aren't being switched at the station, or that they're not using a mobile production trailer (Locally, WISN and WITI both use WMVS/WMVT's massive trailer for remote shows). Also, given the weather situation right now, I doubt Hearst would even try to get one of it's east coast stations, especially Bostin, to give up their satellite truck. Condemned =/= beyond repair. It simply means "unfit for use". The next steps will be to have structural engineers inspect the roof and the rest of the beams in the building. If they don't find anything wrong, it'll be business as usual within a few hours. The fix could be as simple as replacing the faulty beam. EDIT: The extent of the damage isn't as big as it's been made out to be, either. Unless they find out that the building has somehow been structurally deficient for the last 58 years (It opened in 1956), I'd expect this to be a temporary inconvenience. Going to make a wild guess that, given Kansas City's proximity to Tornado Alley, that their truck is specially equipped as part of a contingency plan for a station losing the ability to use it's entire facility. WBAL's truck probably does not do as much as you think it does. Just because it's a "remote show" doesn't mean that graphics and other remote feeds aren't being switched at the station, or that they're not using a mobile production trailer (Locally, WISN and WITI both use WMVS/WMVT's massive trailer for remote shows). Also, given the weather situation right now, I doubt Hearst would even try to get one of it's east coast stations, especially Bostin, to give up their satellite truck. The only reason why I brought this point up is because of past emails with WBAL-TV engineers after they went HDTV in 2009. During that time episode their regular ENG trucks could only transmit 16:9 ED - While their mobile newsroom during special events like the Preakness Pre Show and the Washington Monument lighting were in HD. The engineer explained to me that they were using their mobile newsroom as their full production faculty, ranging from adding multiple chorine, receiving other ENG truck feeds, their SkyTeam11 HD helicopter feed and using all of this to straight to master control where all they needed to add was their digital on screen graphic. Unless of course they are sending a mobile tv studio like this one that was used during the Casey Anthony and George Zimmerman trials on TruTV. Of course their was also a local,station that built a similar trailer for the George Zimmerman case on http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2013/6/11/george_zimmerman_tri.html"] on Bright House News 13. [/url Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catnapped 0 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 They posted that the support beam is in place and OTA as well as Comcast are back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 494 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Same with Dish Network. -- Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyHarry 719 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 They posted that the support beam is in place and OTA as well as Comcast are back on. That was quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1341 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 The collapse was in their old studio, which I'm assuming isn't being used for anything. That part of the building is probably now cordoned off to keep people out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 494 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 WGAL announced that tonight's Olympic Zone will be brought to us by WESH-TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leavellebrett 85 Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Here is the message that was posted on WGAL's facebook. WE ARE BACK: WGAL staff has been allowed back inside the Lancaster studios. All local newscasts will now air as scheduled. Ron, Janelle and Joe Calhoun will be on at 6 p.m. tonight. Thanks to all of our viewers for the well wishes. And also, thank you to the first responders, engineers and workers who made it possible for us to get back on the air! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catnapped 0 Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Sounds like the 'fix' is only temporary until engineers can devise something permanent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1679 Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Sounds like the 'fix' is only temporary until engineers can devise something permanent. I wonder where the studio is located in relation to the rest of the building - if it's in the sides they could demolish that part and build a new extension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1679 Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Heres a link to an article on Poynter on How WGAL Kept The Newsroom Running When the Roof Collapsedhttp://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/239783/how-wgal-tv-kept-the-newsroom-running-when-the-roof-collapsed/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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