"All of our distribution and transmission feeds going into the Superdome were operating as expected," Entergy spokesman Philip Allison told KACTV in southern Louisiana. The outage appeared to originate in a failure of equipment maintained by stadium staff, he added.
Date: Feb 04, 2013
Category: Business
Source: Google
Investigators trying to shed light on why Superdome went dark
The company completed upgrades to the stadium's electrical equipment on December 21, but that may have had nothing to do with Sunday night's problem, said Entergy spokesman Philip Allison. "Since then, we've had three major events -- the New Orleans Bowl, the Panthers-Saints game and the Sugar Bowl
NEW ORLEANS --Sunday's power outage that delayed part of the Super Bowl's second half for 34 minutes, darkened parts of the Superdome and silenced CBS announcers appeared to be caused by a failure of stadium equipment, Entergy New Orleans spokesman Philip Allison said.
Philip Allison, a spokesman for Entergy New Orleans, told the Associated Press that all the feeds into the Superdome were operating as expected and that the blackout was most probably the result of improperly maintained equipment at the venue.
Date: Feb 04, 2013
Category: Entertainment
Source: Google
Power outage darkened Superdome, unnerving fans, disrupting momentum
"We don't know a whole lot," said Philip Allison, spokesman for Entergy New Orleans. "It actually was not our issue. We were providing service as usual to the dome. We had power flowing to the dome. The issue was on the Superdome's side."