The week of March 2 starts the semiannual satellite solar outage in northern California. A solar or sun transit out is an electromagnetic phenomenon wherein our station’s downlink is temporarily unable to receive a satellite signal due to interference from the sun as it passes behind the satellite. During the outage window KSPB will air programming that does not rely on the satellite:

• Monday, March 2 from 10:30am–11am: With Good Reason “Finding Classroom Success”
• Tuesday, March 3 from 10:30am–11am: The Best of Our Knowledge “The History of the Dracula Legend”
• Wednesday, March 4 from 10:30am–11am: Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt “Charles Yu”
• Thursday, March 5 from 10am–11am: Blue Dot “Modeling Climate with Gavin Schmidt”