{"id":18087,"date":"2016-04-04T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18087"},"modified":"2016-04-04T16:37:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:37:30","slug":"voa-site-a-antennas-and-towers-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/voa-site-a-antennas-and-towers-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"VOA Site A antennas and towers demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18088\" style=\"width: 654px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-442016-83022-PM.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18088\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18088\" class=\"wp-image-18088 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-442016-83022-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Fullscreen capture 442016 83022 PM\" width=\"644\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-442016-83022-PM.jpg 644w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-442016-83022-PM-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-442016-83022-PM-430x300.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helicopter view of the curtain antenna array falling.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/any-requests-heading-to-the-edward-r-murrow-transmitting-station\/\">I spent the afternoon at the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station<\/a>\u00a0(a.k.a. VOA Site B) in Greenville, NC.<\/p>\n<p>While there,\u00a0I was told that the\u00a0VOA Site A towers, which have long been abandoned, were slated to be demolished this morning. Here&#8217;s the report from local NBC TV station WITN:<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.witn.com\/home\/headlines\/Radio-towers-being-demolished-in-Washington-373785161.html\" target=\"_blank\">WITN<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>BEAUFORT COUNTY, NC (WITN) &#8211; A series of implosions is all it took to bring down 48 radio towers that have been a part of U.S. history for over 50 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>It happened Monday morning at the old Voice of America Site A in Beaufort County.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Not used since 2006, the VOA site was sold to Beaufort County as surplus U.S. property.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Environmental Holdings Group of Morrisville teamed up with Controlled Demolition Incorporated to implode and haul off the 48 towers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>It took less than a minute for it all to come down.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Voice of America still broadcasts from Site B to Latin America, Cuba, the Caribbean, and Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/up.anv.bz\/latest\/anvload.html?key=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\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.witn.com\/home\/headlines\/Radio-towers-being-demolished-in-Washington-373785161.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the full article and watch the video at WITN.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I spent the afternoon at the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station\u00a0(a.k.a. VOA Site B) in Greenville, NC. While there,\u00a0I was told that the\u00a0VOA Site A towers, which have long been abandoned, were slated to be demolished this morning. Here&#8217;s the report from local NBC TV station WITN: (Source: WITN) BEAUFORT COUNTY, NC (WITN) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[4924,10,2657,182],"class_list":["post-18087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-edward-r-m","tag-voa","tag-voa-site-a","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4HJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18139,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/video-demolition-companys-view-of-voa-site-a-towers-falling\/","url_meta":{"origin":18087,"position":0},"title":"Video: Demolition company&#8217;s view of VOA Site A towers falling","author":"Thomas","date":"April 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"While it's fascinating to watch the video footage of the VOA Site A towers falling, it's also a little heartbreaking. 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In addition to a number of transmitter sites located stateside, the VOA used to broadcast from a number of other facilities located in overseas countries in order to help get its signal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;International Broadcasting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"International Broadcasting","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/international-broadcasting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/VOA-Rhodes-1971.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/VOA-Rhodes-1971.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/VOA-Rhodes-1971.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/VOA-Rhodes-1971.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/VOA-Rhodes-1971.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6940,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/bbg-watch-edward-r-murrow-site-appears-safe-in-fiscal-year-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":18087,"position":4},"title":"BBG Watch: Edward R. 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