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‘What do you mean, the tower is gone?’: thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station | Alabama (www.theguardian.com)

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‘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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

AM radio? Anyone who is listening to that probably doesn’t have a phone to call anyone about it, inside their Mad Max bunker.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I remember doing international support as a youngling, and asking my co-worker what the calling code was for the US.
"+1"
'Haha, no, really, what is it?'
Checks internet
Makes the tea once everyone has finished laughing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

TIL the 1 at the beginning of numbers designates that they are US based

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They have a 100+ mile range and often the same content will be broadcast on a different frequency by other towers. A lot of people would have just switched to the other frequency and moved on with their lives. You might have three frequencies to choose from for the same content.