The music plays on, but Island FM is hit badly by power cut
Tuesday 5th February 2013, 10:00AM GMT.
Island FM breakfast show presenter James Bentley was kept off air by a power cut yesterday morning. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1302856)
AN EMERGENCY 45-minute CD was played on a loop for two and a half hours yesterday morning as Island FM was among the worst-hit by a power cut on the Bridge
Supplies were cut off there and in parts of the Vale between around 6.30 and 8.59am yesterday. Homes and businesses were affected by the outage, with many shops unable to open.
But Island FM was a major casualty, with station director Mike Huston saying: ‘We can’t go on air speaking and have been unable to for about two and a half hours.
‘The 45-minute looped emergency CD has been playing. It means all the competitions, advertising and news can’t go out. The breakfast show is our busiest show. I can’t even make a cup of tea.’
A Guernsey Electricity statement said a cable entry point at a substation close to the Bridge failed, causing the fault.
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I’m pretty sure that 45 minute emergency CD has been on loop for about 15 years!
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I quite enjoyed listening to Island FM with just music and no talking or adverts… made for a much more peaceful start to my morning
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I listen to the breakfast show every morning whilst I’m getting ready for work, and once I realised what had happened I was very disappointed-so boring getting ready without any fun bits of chat inbetween the songs! But following James and Clare’s tweets sort of made up for it, as they were very funny.
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I am pleased to report that there was no discernable difference in the quality of the journalism throughout the period of time mentioned in the report.
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Well done FM – at least you kept going, thanks.
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Did anyone actually notice?
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And the emergency generator didn’t kick in for what reason?
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Sorry, was no loss for me, normaly to Much chat ,adverts and repeats on Island Fm,prefer to Listen to the nearby French stations for great music.
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Get a generator… I bet Radio guernsey has got one.
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