[BC] Re: Another Tower Collapse?

[Blaine Thompson]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gaPBFrQeLgFlCHb_Te3vkz8oSxSAD8U3UJLO0

Ark. TV Station Tower Falls, 1 Injured

11 hours ago

REDFIELD, Ark. (AP)  A 2,000-foot television tower that was once the
second-tallest structure in the world collapsed Friday while workers were
restringing guy wires, knocking two Little Rock-area television stations
off the air.

One person suffered a minor injury when the tower collapsed in a field
about 20 miles south of Little Rock, said Randy Dixon, new director at ABC
affiliate KATV.

"We're off the air. It's a heckuva mess," Dixon said. The station was
working to establish a feed to restore its signal to the portion of its
audience that obtains programming by satellite.

The collapse also knocked out the analog signal of KETS, a Public
Broadcasting Service affiliate in the Arkansas Educational Television
Network. AETN said it could be several days before its analog signal was
restored.

The National Weather Service said winds were light about the time of the
collapse.

At the time it was completed in the mid-1960s, the KATV tower was the
second-tallest structure in the world, behind a 2,063-foot TV tower in
North Dakota.