Rutherford County, TN - Just before 4:45 on Monday afternoon, at least 9,300 customers with Middle Tennessee Electric lost their power. Amy Byers, the Public Relations Coordinator for Middle Tennessee Electric told WGNS News, “A Tennessee Valley Authority transmission outage resulted in disrupted power to about 9,300 MTE members in West Murfreesboro, lasting about 34 minutes this afternoon. MTE crews assisted TVA to repair the problem, which included downed TVA transmission lines. .
(RUTHERFORD COUNTY) One storm-related death in Middle Tennessee, but Rutherford County had mostly downed trees and fences. WGNS is still off-the-air, but the streaming of the radio station is working fine on the internet.
Middle Tennessee Electric's Amy Byers said not only is the radio station still without power but so are 12-thousand MTE customers in the area. It shows that the electric company has outages spread throughout its multi-county service area (Rutherford, Williamson, Cannon .
(RUTHERFORD COUNTY) Friday's storms brought heavy damage and a storm-related death in Middle Tennessee, but Rutherford County had mostly downed trees and fences.
WGNS Back On-The-Air
Thanks to MTE crews, WGNS' on-air FM and AM signals in Murfreesboro and Smyrna were re-stored late Friday night. For Good Neighbor Station Listeners who receive the local programming on their smart phones or computers, that service was not interupted and continued.
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(RUTHERFORD COUNTY) Friday's storms brought heavy damage and a storm-related death in Middle Tennessee, but Rutherford County had mostly downed trees and fences. Two persons are confirmed dead in Middle Tennessee as a result of the storms.
WGNS Back On-The-Air
Thanks to MTE crews, WGNS' on-air FM and AM signals in Murfreesboro and Smyrna were re-stored late Friday night. For Good Neighbor Station Listeners who receive the local programming on their smart phones or computers, that service .
Murfreesboro, TN - Power went off in the area of downtown Murfreesboro for a short time on Thursday afternoon. Amy Byers, Public Relations Coordinator for Middle Tennessee Electric, told WGNS News… “At 3:59 PM, the circuit that powers portions of South Church Street and most of Downtown Murfreesboro locked out. After riding out the circuit to determine the cause, we found two lines that were burned down at 752 South Church Street due to lighting striking the pole. Originally, .