Comment on ‘What do you mean, the tower is gone?’: thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station | Alabama

JCreazy@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  AM radio? Anyone who is listening to that probably doesn’t have a phone to call anyone about it, inside their Mad Max bunker.

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  • NaoPb@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or they might not know what country code to use since some of that AM stuff gets broadcasted really far.

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    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I remember doing international support as a youngling, and asking my co-worker what the calling code was for the US.
      “+1”
      ‘Haha, no, really, what is it?’ Checks internet
      Makes the tea once everyone has finished laughing

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      • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        TIL the 1 at the beginning of numbers designates that they are US based

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  • _wizard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But my company absolutely has a dedicated target audience we boast about to potential advertisers.

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apparently this was their AM feed and most people listen to their FM feed. And they’d been doing maintenance lately where they’d be down for days at a time, so may not have seemed unusual.

  Plus they’re a really small station and their listener base skews old and people are kinda apathetic.

  The bigger problem I guess is that they themselves appear not to have been doing anything to monitor the signal as required by the FCC. But I really doubt they get audited much or ever.

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• abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They have a 100+ mile range and often the same content will be broadcast on another channel with overlapping coverage. People might have just switched to the other frequency and moved on with their lives.

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