Last week an Army Black Hawk helicopter flew into a guy wire on the 1,739 foot KXXV tower north of Waco near Moody, Texas, killing all on board. The lights on the TV tower had been out since a strong storm passed through the area. KXXV followed the rules for tower light outages and had notified the FAA, which issued a

WFXL 's 1,000-foot tower near Albany, Ga. was damaged two weeks ago when an Army helicopter crashed into it and cut one of its guy wires. Only one of the helicopter's occupants survived the crash. There was concern the tower would collapse and take down the nearby WALB tower, so the stations developed a plan to carefu

The accident happened as the helicopter flew low in a dense fog from Ft. Hood on its way to the Red River Army Depot in Central Texas

The helicopter appears to have clipped guy wires on WFXL-TV’s 1000ft tower — and possibly struck it — this morning, taking the station off air.

Tornados pummeled parts of the U.S. last week. Although no TV towers were toppled by the tornados as of Sunday morning, one radio broadcast tower fell prey to the storms. WTNV-FM 104.7 in Jackson, Tenn. lost its 580 foot tower to a tornado Sunday night, May 4. Broadcasters have a reputation of helping each other in eme

New York's WOR (710) pulled out all the stops for the planned demolition of its former tower site in Lyndhurst, N.J., Wednesday morning. The station's top advertisers and managers were on hand at WOR's new transmitter site half a mile away to watch the three 690-foot towers come down. So were camera crews from most of

The tower was built in 1965 and its guy wires were being repaired when it fell. Fortunately, there was only a single minor injury as a result of the collapse.