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No one’s sure how the ambitious bandits made off with the heavy steel structure, WJLX station general manager Brett Elmore told WBRC.

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[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

I still don’t understand how they didn’t notice they were off the air

[-] APassenger@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago
[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Automation and it's also possible this was a repeater tower... so, not the main broadcast tower but one that fills in a dead zone within the market. Radio and TV stations use repeaters in areas with a lot of hills or tall buildings.

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