VIRDEN, N.M.—The American Radio Relay League is reporting that Milt Jensen, N5IA, has died in a fall from a tower at Mount Lemon in Arizona. A lifetime member of the League, Jensen was reportedly 73 years old. ARRL.org has details here.
A tower worker died early this week when he fell 1,200 feet from the KOLN/KGIN transmitter tower west of Lincoln, Nebraska. KALB.com , in the June 17 staff article Tower Death said authorities believe a faulty harness system may have been responsible for the death. The worker, 22 year-old Carlos Munoz, was employed
The worker was killed Wednesday while working on a tower in Newton, Mass. which is owned by the American Tower Corp.
Lucille Luongo, immediate past president of the Library of American Broadcasting, has died at 58, reports Gordon Hastings, president of the organization. Luongo suffered from cancer. Luongo was a past national president of the American Women in Radio and Television, a former senior vice president of corporate communic
A worker died after falling 1,200 feet from a television tower he was reinforcing to hold a DTV antenna west of Lincoln, Neb.
The investigation into an accident that left three men dead at the base of a 1,500-foot Iowa public television tower in late May turned up safety violations leading to a $3,000 fine. Leo Deters, 57, of Norwalk, Iowa; 27-year-old Jason Galles of Des Moines and 19-year-old Jon McWilliams of Cumming, Iowa died while rid
A 31-year-old man died Wednesday evening in south-central Michigan after BASE jumping from a nearly 1,000-foot TV tower owned by WLAJ-TV.
Elizabeth Anne Callan, 57, an award-winning producer for The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer for more than 20 years died Friday, August 17, at the Washington Hospital Center from injuries suffered in a fire.