The executive Chairman of the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo state Prince Dotun Oyelade on Thursday said the inferno which raged three studios of the corporation was triggered by a power surge caused by sudden restoration of electric power by the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC).
Oyelade said this while inspecting the level of damage caused by the fire incident with the members of the Management team.
The areas affected by the inferno are the studio where the station’s dispute resolution program ‘So daa bee’ is recorded, the make-up studio and the television studio.
The chairman regretted the serious damage done to three of the Corporation’s studios and assured that everything would be done to ensure that there is temporary semblance of normal transmission.
He cited three major reasons BCOS cannot afford to go off air.
The reasons, according to him, are airing of commercials, performance of social responsibility in publicizing government programs and to sustain the Corporation’s tradition of consistency over the past 47 years.
The radio arm of the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS), Oluyole FM is expected to resume transmission in a couple of hours.
The resumption of the radio arm of BCOS is a temporary arrangement initiated by the station’s engineering crew to manage the extensive damage caused by the Wednesday inferno which razed the corporation’s studios.
