by Jason Reed | Sep 29, 2020 | Broadcast Interruptions, Broadcast Updates, Fun & Learning
Sitting on the roof of BPR’s studios in downtown Asheville is our satellite dish which provides our live content feed and file downloads from NPR studios and other content producers. This form of content distribution is provided to us by Public Radio Satellite... by Jason Reed | Jan 31, 2020 | Broadcast Interruptions, Broadcast Updates
Today between 10 AM and 1 PM we will be switching our origination broadcast from our current systems (+20 years old) to our newly installed broadcast systems. While minimal, this will cause some interruptions to all aspects of our broadcast systems. Thanks for... by Duncan Fowler | Apr 19, 2019 | Broadcast Updates
Update: Services have been restored at Brevard for both 90.5 BPR Classic & 101.5 BPR News as of 10:00 AM this morning. Thankfully we had great weather to work in. Update: Power has been restored to our transmitter site. In addition to losing power we sustained... by Jason Reed | Apr 13, 2019 | Broadcast Interruptions, Broadcast Updates
Update: Our streaming services have been restored with Apple Music and Internet Radio in iTunes. Update: Our streaming services have been restored to optimal operations for all services except for Apple Music. We continue to work on this issue and hope to have it... by Jason Reed | Apr 9, 2019 | Broadcast Updates
Update: At 3:15PM our power was restored and so was our broadcast. At 1:02 PM on 4/9/19 we lost power at our transmitter site for 107.5 BPR Classic serving Black Mountain, NC. Duke Energy is aware of the outage and working to restore power. We will update this post as... by Duncan Fowler | Apr 1, 2019 | Broadcast Updates
Update 5:00 PM 5/13: As of this afternoon we have completed installing, testing and restoring our HD broadcast on 88.1, 88.1 HD1 & HD2 frequencies. Update 11:30 AM 4/30: We have received a ship date on the new equipment of 5/6. Updated estimate for restoration of...