Radio station ‘bounces’ back as power restored
Posted by Times Chronicle | Jan 11, 2023 | Featured, Oliver, Osoyoos | 0 By Don Urquhart, Times Chronicle For Brock Jackson, the host of Osoyoos radio show Bounce Mornings, he couldn’t have timed it better if he had tried. The power outage on Mount Kobau that took two of Bell Media’s radio stations – Move 99.9 FM and Bounce 102.9 FM – offline just as he was going on holiday for a week, miraculously came back online the night before he was scheduled to go back on the air. Local Bell Media radio stations bounced off the air “They just turn the power off when I go on vacation,” he laughs speaking with the Times Chronicle on what transpired with the stations going off the air from the evening of Jan. 2 to the evening of Jan. 8. A combination of a deep freeze, snow and then rain all conspired to create some serious winter weather atop the 1,693 metre (5,554 feet) mountain where the Bell…
