{"id":820133,"date":"2026-08-20T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820133\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:58:09","slug":"alert-required-maintenance-temporarily-impacting-wibw-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820133\/","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":820134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[35541,88,54390,347793,347791,347792,92,77211],"class_list":["post-820133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-antenna","tag-entertainment","tag-low-power","tag-over-the-air","tag-signal-interruption","tag-tower-painting","tag-tv","tag-wibw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}