Flames from the Eaton fire came perilously close to the Mt. Wilson transmitters, and local stations, including KABC and radio KLOS-FM, reported losing transmissions.

This isn’t the first time Mt. Wilson has been threatened by fire, most notably by the Station fire in 2009, which burned more than 160,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest.

Power is out on southern California’s Mount Wilson for a second straight week, forcing broadcasters to rely on backup ...

The Eaton Fire, which ravaged Altadena, is encroaching on Mt. Wilson, whose peak houses a number of broadcast towers. The L.A.-based NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and PBS stations all have transmitters atop ...

As firefighters work to contain the Eaton and Palisades fires, engineers are working to ensure broadcast signals serving ...

Walt Disney Co.’s KABC-TV Channel 7 station, which uses communications towers near Mt. Wilson, lost its over-the-air signal Friday as the Eaton fire continued its rampage through mountainous ...

EARLIER: The devastating Eaton fire is now taking aim at Mt. Wilson, threatening the antenna farm and broadcasting transmitters located up there, as well as the historic Mt. Wilson observatory.