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[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[-] babyfarmer@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

How long were they broadcasting without a tower?

How were they not already aware that there was dead air? Was anyone out there even listening in the first place?

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 6 points 8 months ago

A shocking number of radio stations do not listen to their own broadcasting.

Source: A radio listener that has looked for the radio station's phone number, while wishing an employee was listening and could just shout at the DJ about their open mic, dead air, and other obvious mistakes.

[-] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Its all commercials now anyways. Of course no one is listening.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Screaming into the void.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago
[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I'm both appalled and surprised that I understood this reference instantly.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago
[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

You see, Video killed the radio star.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Unironically, the first music video that MTV showed.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Pirate radio is becoming more serious.

[-] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

When we heard about this at lunch, my coworkers and I double-checked eBay and Craigslist to see if it was up for sale. We wanted it (and the transmitter which was also stolen) to set up our own pirate station.

It was not listed, sadly.

[-] Vengefu1Tuna@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

You wouldn't steal a 200-foot tall radio tower

[-] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

How do you even steal a frikin 200ft radio tower?

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

1ft at a time

[-] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Crackheads. -- "look at all that copper!!"

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

And what do you do with it? I doubt scrapyards are going to take it after this news...

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

I doubt scrap yards that pay crackheads really care about stolen scrap.

[-] Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 8 months ago

Why wouldn't they? It wouldn't be recognizable once they chopped it up, which probably would take them 10 minutes or so.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The average scrap yard is run by the most amoral among us. There's a reason catalytic converters are stolen. Someone would scrap that tower.

[-] Bennettiquette@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[-] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

My guess: people stole the metal to sell to scrappers.

this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2024
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