‘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

  • JCreazy@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    So the missing tower was discovered by a landscaping crew, did nobody trust listens to the radio notice?

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        9 months ago

        But my company absolutely has a dedicated target audience we boast about to potential advertisers.

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        9 months ago

        Or they might not know what country code to use since some of that AM stuff gets broadcasted really far.

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      9 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.