A Honolulu television station estimates that power...
A Honolulu television station estimates that power failures that twice interrupted the telecast of Sunday’s Super Bowl cost the station $20,000.
The loss includes the cost of having the game fed a second time from New York, said Bill Riddle, local sales manager at KGMB-TV.
The station reshowed the entire game--without commercials or halftime--late Sunday night.
“We feel an obligation to the public to do this, even though the outage was not our fault,” Riddle said.
The first failure lasted only a split second but caused the station to lose its satellite reception of the game for a few minutes. The second occurred later in the first half and lasted 22 minutes.
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