BCOS Radio Arm Resumes 24 Hours After Inferno

The radio arm of the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS), Oluyole FM has resumed transmission.

This is coming less than twenty-four hours after it was gutted by fire on Wednesday.

The resumption of the radio arm of BCOS, Oluyole FM is a temporary arrangement initiated by the station’s engineering crew to manage the extensive damage caused by the inferno.

Inspecting the level of damage caused by the fire incident with the members of the Management team, the Executive Chairman of the BCOS, Dotun Oyelade regretted the serious damage done to three of the Corporation’s studios.

Oyelade however assured that everything would be done to ensure that there is a temporary semblance of normal transmission.

He cited three major reasons BCOS and Oluyole FM cannot afford to go off air.

The reasons, according to him, are the airing of commercials, performance of social responsibility in publicising government programmes and sustaining the Corporation’s tradition of consistency over the past 47 years.

BCOS, was on Wednesday afternoon gutted by fire triggered by a power surge caused by the sudden restoration of electric power by the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC).

The areas affected by the fire incident are the studio where the station’s dispute resolution programme ‘So Daa Bee’ is recorded, the make-up studio and the television studio.

Valuable materials and pieces of equipment worth millions of naira were destroyed by the inferno.