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200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone." (arstechnica.com)

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200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone."::"There's wires everywhere, and it's gone."

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 7 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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 radio station manager has told outlets that he's hopeful that community tips and surveillance footage from the poultry plant near the tower's former location may eventually help police find the tower-taker(s).

Federal law says one who "willfully or maliciously injures or destroys any of the works, property, or material of any radio, telegraph, telephone or cable, line, station, or system, or other means of communication, operated or controlled by the United States" can face up to 10 years of imprisonment and fines.

Tinsley told the news station that she has reached out to people to identify media outlets that might be willing to help WJLX get new equipment.

It was eventually revealed that two NSCDC officials "were approached by a scrap metal dealer to provide him security cover to transport the items," per Media Trust-owned Daily Trust.

If WJLX's case is anything like the Nigerian heist, someone likely knows more than they're letting on, and the financial burden to the media outlet could be hard to resolve quickly.

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