{"id":1361,"date":"2007-11-28T23:02:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T04:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2012-05-08T23:03:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T04:03:43","slug":"something-wrong-with-the-beacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"Something wrong with the Beacon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/beacon_dark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I guess I&#8217;m going to have to ask around. The past few evenings I&#8217;ve noticed that the Weather Beacon is dark. Hopefully it&#8217;s not in need of another costly major repair!<\/p>\n<p>I have the honor of having been one of the folks charged with changing the color of the Weather Beacon to reflect the current forecast. In the 1990s when I worked in Master Control at KFYR-TV, the switch box for the Beacon was right behind where I sat at the control board. There were six clunky push buttons on the box, one for each permutation: red, flashing red, white, flashing white, green, and flashing green. The program log for KFYR-TV had occasional reminders throughout the day\/night to check the Beacon.<\/p>\n<p>Later on I heard that the control reverted to KFYR radio, and I think there was a span in there where nobody was really controlling it. I think each station thought the other was doing it! That would have been around the time that the radio stations&#8217; headquarters moved out of the Meyer buildings.<\/p>\n<p>I also got to help Save the Beacon back in the 90&#8217;s too, as KFYR&#8217;s webmaster, but that&#8217;s a story for another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;m going to have to ask around. The past few evenings I&#8217;ve noticed that the Weather Beacon is dark. Hopefully it&#8217;s not in need of another costly major repair! I have the honor of having been one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1361\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-bismarck-mandan","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}