Thieves knock out radio station

Thu, Sep 2nd 2010, 11:00 PM

By ALISON LOWE
Tribune Staff Reporter

alowe@tribunemedia.net

A BRAZEN daylight theft of copper at a ZNS transmission site by men claiming to be Bahamas Electricity Corporation workers knocked out a radio station yesterday.

Red-faced executives at the Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas are now unsure of when they will be able to get the station back on air.

BCB first realised something was wrong when their 1540AM broadcast suddenly went off air shortly after 10am yesterday.

Upon checks being made at the corporation's South Beach transmission site, it was discovered that the apparent theft of copper tuning bands from the transmission equipment was the cause of the problem.

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