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35. Why can't you or won't you identify the station or stations?

PBS doesn't broadcast over the air. If they were shut down, their programming wouldn't be available to their affiliated stations. So which are the affiliated stations that you normally can receive but now can't?

Here are the four stations that serve the counties you identified:
Mendocino County: KRCB, channel 22, licensed to Cotati
Humboldt County: KEET, channel 13, licensed to Eureka
Trinity County: KIXE, channel 9, licensed to Redding
Del Norte County: KVIE, channel 6 - licensed to Sacramento

It's a simple question: when you want to watch PBS programming over-the-air, which of these stations to you tune into? While I don't know exactly where you live, I'd be surprised if all four have coverage areas that overlap. My guess is that you probably watch KIXE, which has a pretty strong signal that covers over 130 miles and touches all four counties. That being said, if KIXE had been dark for six days, it would have been reported by someone other than just you.

The other possibility is that you get your over-the-air signal from a low-power "translator" station that repeats the primary station's signal. Those low power stations are not supported by the level of resources as a full power station and extended outages are not unknown and because they impact a relatively limited area, don't make the news when they happen.