04/06/2016
A field of 48 antenna towers that the Voice of America once used to broadcast
around the world, were dropped by explosives on April 4. The VOA had not used
the towers, located in Beaufort County, North Carolina, for 10 years, although
it still broadcasts news and information to Latin America, Cuba, the Caribbean
and Africa from towers in a nearby county. According to news reports, it took
less than 1 minute to fell the towers, which were hauled away as scrap. They
had been in place for 50 years.
Television station WITN said the VOA site has been sold to Beaufort County's
North Carolina Wild Life Resources Commission.
See the towers go down in this WITN TV news report[1].
[1] http://www.witn.com/home/headlines/Radio-towers-being-demolished-in-Washingt
on-373785161.html
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