Turkmenistan broadcaster acquiring communications infrastructure

KPLC-TV Ch. 7 in Lake Charles, La. lost two transmitting towers at its transmitter site near Fenton last week. One was an older tower that was being dismantled when it collapsed, and a newer tower nearby. Both towers were nearly 1,600 feet tall, but fortunately no one was injured. In a Letter to Our Viewers , Jim S

A news item on the KCEN TV Web site reported the Channel 25 (KXXV) tower near Moody, Texas is more stable than originally thought. This is the tower a Black Hawk helicopter struck, as reported in last week's RF Report . According to the article, the helicopter hit at least five guy wires on the tower and since the c

The engineers were about halfway up the tower when the collapse began.