{"id":445242,"date":"2026-09-23T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445242\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:42:09","slug":"power-outage-silences-el-paso-radio-stations-at-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445242\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Outage Silences El Paso Radio Stations At Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

At around 7am on September 23rd, an outage on a power pole cut the electricity to Townsquare Media El Paso and the 3 sister stations went silent. KISS FM, KLAQ, and 600ESPN are all completely down. The Townsquare Media El Paso building is without power. Could it be an attack from a rival radio station? Could it be a bird that landed on the wrong power line? Is it the spirits of El Paso shutting Townsquare Media down???<\/p>\n

\"Grizz\"GrizzGrizz<\/p>\n

While the lights are off, the DJ’s from the various stations came together and did everything from relocating a giant spider to watching Fraser together. Nico and Joanna huddled up in front of a laptop screen while Buzz charged his phone in the air conditioned comfort of his car.<\/p>\n

Iris & Grizz ran around outside, recording ridiculous rainy day content that wound up being unusable because Iris forgot to turn on her microphones. We roamed the hallways together with a flashlight, talking about the ghosts we’ve seen and trading stories about former DJs who passed.<\/p>\n

We all made the best of it by helping Iris clean out her car. Unfortunately, when our engineer Michael J got to the studio, we were informed that the generator was overheating so we had no way to come back on.<\/p>\n

The issue was far more dire than we thought. So we grabbed some snacks, poured a cup of cold coffee, and did our best to stay safe in the dark…haunted halls of Townsquare Media.<\/p>\n

OOooOoooOOOooH!!!<\/p>\n

Fingers crossed we are back on soon!!<\/p>\n

Will this be the end of KISS FM?? KLAQ?? Is this the last broadcast for 600ESPN???<\/p>\n

Tune int to find out.<\/p>\n

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