WCBU Off the Air

Hi Everyone. WCBU's broadcast transmitter and antenna are located in East Peoria, at WTVP's transmitter tower site. That tower has some lighting repairs and maintenance that has to be done. Some of the red aircraft warning lights have failed, so WTVP hired a crew to climb the tower and repair the lighting system.  Tower climbers can't be near the antenna when the transmitter is operating at full power. Therefore, we will be shutting off the WCBU transmitter this Wednesday, March 20th around 9:30am. We anticipate that the WCBU and WTVP transmitters will be off the air for a few hours.  We wanted to let you know in advance that the tower lighting repairs will require WCBU and WTVP to be off the air and that it is not related to any of the Bradley/ISU negotiations to forge a management partnership agreement between WCBU and WGLT.

Thank you and sorry for any inconvenience.

Bill Porter
Interim Executive Director, WCBU-FM