{"id":575083,"date":"2026-08-20T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575083\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:12:08","slug":"alert-required-maintenance-temporarily-impacting-wibw-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575083\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT: Required maintenance temporarily impacting WIBW signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Viewers who receive WIBW-TV\u2019s signal over-the-air are likely seeing interruptions Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We are in the midst of FCC-required maintenance on our tower. The work requires turning off the power for a short time for the safety of crew members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews expect to restore at least partial power by 11 a.m. with full power back by noon or shortly after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"> WIBW local programs are always live-streamed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/page\/wibw-streaming-schedule\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/page\/wibw-streaming-schedule\/\">WIBW.com<\/a> and available on WIBW+ platforms, which include our WIBW News Mobile app, and streaming apps such as Roku, Fire, and Apple+.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Viewers who receive WIBW-TV\u2019s signal over-the-air are likely seeing interruptions Thursday morning. We are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[68165,156,29796,111,139,69,68164,283351,283352,437,283350],"class_list":["post-575083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-antenna","tag-entertainment","tag-low-power","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over-the-air","tag-signal-interruption","tag-tower-painting","tag-tv","tag-wibw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}