Please be advised that the 2016 fall solar outage season will affect South Carolina Public Radio October 3 - 7 at approximately 2:37 p.m. each day. This will result in a temporary loss of our program signal. During this period normal programming has been adjusted allowing for no broadcast interruptions. The Takeaway will air on all stations at 2 p.m. during this week (except Friday when Science Friday airs at its usual time.).
To the Point will return on October 10. A solar or sun transit outage is an electromagnetic phenomenon wherein a station downlink is temporarily unable to receive a satellite signal due to interference from the sun as it passes behind the satellite. Solar outages occur on a predictable schedule throughout the country and affect downlinks in the U.S. for a possible seven consecutive days, for as much as 12 minutes a day, twice each year (also March).