WYOW transmitter in Eagle River restored fiber optic outage

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EAGLE RIVER, Wis. (WSAW) - The WYOW transmitter in Eagle River is back on the air after a network outage in the Rhinelander and Eagle River area.

NewsChannel 7’s engineering team and crews were able to fix the issue and repair the fiber optic cable around 7 p.m. Thursday.

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