SAD NEWS: An Alabama 200-foot radio tower was stolen….

Jasper, Alabama – Authorities are looking for the robbers who took a 200-foot tower in Alabama and shut down a nearby AM radio station.

The radio station’s general manager, WJLX, said that he discovered the theft on February 2 when a maintenance team came to tidy up the area, “only to find it completely cleared out by the thieves.”

“I’ve been attempting to understand it for the entire weekend, but I’m at a loss. Throughout my entire career in the radio industry, I have never heard of anything like this. “I believed I had witnessed everything,” stated Brett Elmore.

“I was shocked to hear on Friday that the tower had disappeared when he called. I inquired if he was certain he was in the correct location. “The tower is gone,” was his reply. There are wires all over the place, Elmore remembered.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rejected the station’s request to continue broadcasting on FM while they rebuilt the AM radio operations.

“For a tiny organization like ours, this is a significant setback, but I am confident that we will find the guilty parties. They will see that it wasn’t worth it, as this is a federal offense, according to Elmore.