KOLO TV-8 went down at 5:30:10 Sunday, the opening credits of the Academy Awards. I immediately got calls from Sparks readers via my Barbwire.TV hotline. An NVEnergy power outage took down Channel 8’s legendary wide-area Slide Mountain transmitter. The station’s backup antenna (on Ampere Way behind - ahem  - NV Energy) also failed. Because of Hollywood’s black blackout, … [Read more...]