{"id":124041,"date":"2025-09-06T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124041\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:33:11","slug":"bbc-radio-bristol-hit-by-blackout-during-andy-bennett-show-radiotoday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124041\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio Bristol hit by blackout during Andy Bennett show \u2013 RadioToday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bristol.jpg\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a itemprop=\"url\" class=\"ysbvegnl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayl.ink\/aiirjune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ysbvegnl-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/RTUKPackageDeal1webp.webp.webp\" alt=\"Aiir June 2\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andy Bennett\u2019s BBC Radio Bristol afternoon show was forced off air today after a power outage struck central Bristol. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/todayl.ink\/WiseBuddah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/RadioToday-Small-Image-150x150-1.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The programme went into silence when the studio lost power, leaving Andy and his team \u201cpanicking\u201d as the building went into blackout. The show was later taken over by Luke Knight, broadcasting from BBC Radio Somerset.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was linked to a wider outage affecting more than 1,500 properties after smoke was seen coming from a pavement on Whiteladies Road in Clifton. Among those affected were BBC Points West, BBC Radio Bristol and BBC West offices.<\/p>\n<p>National Grid said engineers were investigating a \u201cfault on our underground network\u201d which was reported at 4.22pm. The company added that the power cut was expected to last until 6pm and apologised for the disruption.<\/p>\n<p>An Avon Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said crews extinguished a fire \u201cunder the manhole cover which we believed to be connected to electric cables\u201d at about 4pm. Firefighters later returned at 5.09pm to reports of further black smoke and flames in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear when the show went off air on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC Sounds<\/a> from 2 hours and 24 seconds into the programme.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bs-push-noti-message\">Get real time updates directly on you device, subscribe now.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tSubscribe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Andy Bennett\u2019s BBC Radio Bristol afternoon show was forced off air today after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-124041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}