‘What do you mean, the tower is gone?’: thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station
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Small radio station forced to go silent after ‘unbelievable’ theft of giant tower, which would cost over $100,000 to replace

‘What do you mean, the tower is gone?’: thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station | Alabama::Small radio station forced to go silent after ‘unbelievable’ theft of giant tower, which would cost over $100,000 to replace

  • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Apparently this was their AM feed and most people listen to their FM feed. And they’d been doing maintenance lately where they’d be down for days at a time, so may not have seemed unusual.

    Plus they’re a really small station and their listener base skews old and people are kinda apathetic.

    The bigger problem I guess is that they themselves appear not to have been doing anything to monitor the signal as required by the FCC. But I really doubt they get audited much or ever.