![]() ![]() “We had about six or seven reporters and what we started doing was transmitting to the transmitter site which was also had a two-way radio, we were able to get on the air from the Proctor theatre building on 4 th street and were able let everyone know in the Capital Region what was going on," said Condon. With a job to deliver critical news to its listeners, their reporters communicated by using two way radio’s. WTRY was the only station on air from New York City to Rochester during a three-hour time period thanks to the stations generator. "It was a big deal but what goes through my mind is that so many other broadcasters were unprepared for it,” said Condon. Time Warner Cable News traffic reporter John Gabriel was a kid at the time, but he and Condon, like an estimated 30 million others, became witnesses to what is now known as the Great Northeast Blackout. “Shortly after that WABC just went off the air,” said Condon. At the same time Condon noticed street lights around him were doing the same. Off duty at the time, driving down Washington Ave in Albany around 5:15pm listening to WABC on the radio. On November 9, 1965, The then 17 year old, was a weekend disk jockey at WTRY in Troy at their Proctor Theatre building on 4 th street. It was 50 years ago Monday, when the entire northeast suddenly went dark.
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