WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | ABC station's TV tower collapses two days before the Super Bowl
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(Tyler, Texas) February 3, 2006 - ABC station KLTV in Tyler, Texas, has lost it's main broadcast tower. The structure, approximately 800 feet tall, collapsed early Friday morning.
The cause for the collapse is currently under investigation. No one was hurt when the tower fell.
KLTV Vice President and General Manager Brad Streit said, "It is too early to tell what impact the loss of our tower will have on our programming schedule for the next few days." Streit went on to say, "KLTV is scheduled to broadcast ABC's coverage of the Super Bowl this Sunday. Our hope is that we will be able to find a temporary solution to this problem and we are looking at other alternatives for carrying our TV signal."
The KLTV tower was approximately 25 years old. In late 2005, workers installed KLTV's new Digital and High Definition TV antenna on the tower.
KLTV is owned by Raycom Media of Montgomery, Alabama. Engineers from other Raycom stations who have had experience with similar tower problems are being flown to East Texas to assist KLTV.
posted 11:50am by Bryce Mursch
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