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artmorris
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Posted: Sat Jan 12th, 2008 11:24 am |
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Ark. TV Station Tower Falls, 1 Injured
7 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.
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Buddy Dornster
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Posted: Sat Jan 12th, 2008 08:20 pm |
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| Zowie! Who was the crew?
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artmorris
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Posted: Sat Jan 12th, 2008 08:33 pm |
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Here's a couple of links with video...
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0108/487185.html
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0108/487277.html
OK, here's my question. With analog signals going away next year, will KATV rebuild their analog plant at all?
Art
Last edited on Sat Jan 12th, 2008 09:27 pm by artmorris
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Gregg Richwine
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Posted: Mon Jan 14th, 2008 01:41 am |
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A station in Scranton, PA owned by the company that owns the TV station I work for has the same problem...their tower failed in the December ice storm that hit the East Coast, and the same system that did in Art's tower. The PBS station that was also damaged took some neat pictures:
http://www.wvia.org/images/towerfailure/
Gregg
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Sneaky Snooper
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Posted: Thu Jan 17th, 2008 04:27 am |
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artmorris wrote: Here's a couple of links with video...
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0108/487185.html
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0108/487277.html
OK, here's my question. With analog signals going away next year, will KATV rebuild their analog plant at all?
Art
As I understand it, KATV was going to give Channel 7 to AEPT (they were moving to like channel 22 or something like that) KEPT is currently on Channel 5 digital and 2 analog. They say they will rebuild but on lower power.
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Wesley Wallace
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Posted: Sat Jan 19th, 2008 01:03 pm |
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The crew that was doing the work was Structural Systems Technology out of Virginia. See: http://www.sst-towers.com
Regards,
Wesley
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Posted: Sat Jan 19th, 2008 02:52 pm |
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Looks like the company has inspected/serviced several of the big TV towers in the KC market. They also list having working on some major steel around the central US, including the Cedar Hill candlebra in Dallas and WTMJ in Milwaukee.
Anyone know what the station currently is doing to get their signal out to the OTA public?
Last edited on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 02:54 pm by gomizzoutigers
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techpuppy
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 07:31 pm |
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KATV's signal is being carried as a digital channel on another Little Rock's Digital signal. It also went on FTA satellite on G10R and is still there today. That's the way many of the cable systems are getting their signal.
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