200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast
by Scharon Harding from Ars Technica - All content on (#6JH0H)
A 200-foot AM radio tower has been missing for at least a week, leaving an Alabama radio station in a financial crisis and on a desperate hunt.
As first reported by Memphis' Action News 5, Jasper, Alabama, radio station WJLX 101.5 FM/1240 AM, sent a bush hog crew to maintain the area around the tower on February 2. The tower is behind a poultry plant in a forestedarea, per The Guardian. Once there, a crew member called station manager Brett Elmore, informing him that the 200-foot structure that CNN says has been there since the '50s had disappeared.
"He said, The tower is gone. There's wires [sic] everywhere, and it's gone,'" Elmore told Action News 5.