Local football fans, and specifically Penn State followers, missed out on most of the Capital One Bowl and about an hour of the Rose Bowl because Channel 33 lost power for about four hours.

WYTV, the ABC affiliate in Youngstown, stopped broadcasting at about 1:30 p.m. because of a malfunction in the station's electric supply outside the building, News Director Pat Livingston said. Viewers only saw static during the outage that started about a half-hour into the Capital One Bowl, which Auburn won 13-9.

The station was back on the air by about 5:30 p.m., an hour into the broadcast of the Rose Bowl between Oklahoma and Washington State.

The staff could not respond to viewers' questions about the blackout because the station's computers were down and its phones stopped working, Livingston said.

Once the Rose Bowl was back on the air, an apology ran across the bottom of the screen explaining that a power outage had occurred outside the WYTV building.

Penn State fans can check out game highlights on page C-1 today.