Traverse City, MI — 910 Media Group’s WFUP Fox Upper Peninsula tower, located near Vanderbilt, has seen major damage and staff are still working to restore full signal.
The low-power transmitter in Harbor Springs, Channel 31, has been temporarily re-purposed to broadcast WWTV programming.
The 630-foot tower broke and lost about 100 to 120 feet of segment from its top. The damage has caused outages that the company is actively working to fix and/or reroute coverage.
“The tower is still broken,” Director of Operations Pete Ludviksen said. “The full power antenna for ‘channel 45′ is still out of commission and will be for some time. We are operating that channel on our auxiliary tower — lower height and lower power — so, over-the-air reception may be compromised in fringe areas.”
The AT&T cellular array tower is 362 feet up the tower. The tower covers service for the Leelanau Peninsula, Petoskey and Charlevoix.
Viewers who were able to receive Channel 31 can re-scan to pick up Channel 9 programming.
WFUP Fox tower damage