Well - not quite our territory, but...

By Eric O Brien

National News: It could be a sucky period of time for engineers in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area today. Early Sunday morning, an ice build up caused the 823-foot tower of WNEP (TV 16) to collapse from the heavy weight. As it fell, a guy wire took out a portion of the next tower which belongs to WVIA-TV and FM. Both towers are on Penobscot Mountain. To make matters worse, the WNEP tower fell on the transmitter building taking out much of the equipment - including BOTH of the analog transmitters. According to Scott Fybush, a number of other area stations were affected. The complete list and some photos of the damage are at his site.

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Posted at December 17, 2007 at 09:55 am by






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“Sucky,” Mr. O’Brien?
Sister Mary Elephant - December 17, 2007 at 1:22 pm

Sister, I could have used a similar word starting with a different letter. :-) But being the good Episcopalian and the fact that this is a family website, I thought it best to resist.
Eric - December 17, 2007 at 6:24 pm

  
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