An apparent power surge about 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon took 5 of the 6 Miller Media Group radio stations off the air for about 5 hours.

The surge fried a piece of equipment that gets audio for 3 stations from the Park Street studios to our tower south of Taylorville.

And, at the tower site, engineers found 2 transmitters were locked up, as well as blown circuit breakers on 2 power strips that feed power to equipment in various racks.

A loaner box to get audio from Park Street to the Taylorville tower for 3 of our signals, will arrive and be installed on Friday to get WTIM’s 96-point-one signal and NEW Country 104-point-one, back on the air from the Taylorville tower by the end of the day Friday.

96-point-one and NEW Country 104-point-one are transmitting at low power from a tower outside our Park Street studios until late Friday afternoon.