{"id":489221,"date":"2026-02-19T03:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489221\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:04:12","slug":"hot-tomato-knocked-off-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489221\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Tomato knocked off-air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/radiotoday.com.au\/category\/whats-new\/\" class=\"tag color-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s New<\/a> February 19, 2026                                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                                    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-3622.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Gold Coast techs were left scrambling last night, when ARN\u2019s Hot Tomato was knocked off-air.<\/p>\n<p>Locals also reported their TV signal had been lost.<\/p>\n<p>Hot Tomato posted to social media, urging listeners to listen via the iHeart App whilst techs worked on the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOH NO! Someone has unplugged the dongle that goes into the what-cha-mah-call-it and has taken us off the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The station has since confirmed it was a power issue at Mount Tambourine, cutting all local radio and TV services for about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Hot Tomato\u2019s tech Ryan was first on site, and helped make sure the Goldy was switched back on!<\/p>\n<p>Station CD Brendon \u2018Whippy\u2019 Dangar said \u201cHot Tomato was the only local broadcaster to notify the audience via socials to listen on the iHeart app \u2013 a reminder of our strength: our local team in content and engineering working 24\/7.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New February 19, 2026 Gold Coast techs were left scrambling last night, when ARN\u2019s Hot Tomato was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[33024,64,63,134,247243,136],"class_list":["post-489221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-arn","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-hot-tomato","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}