{"id":18139,"date":"2016-04-07T07:45:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T11:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18139"},"modified":"2016-04-07T07:45:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T11:45:36","slug":"video-demolition-companys-view-of-voa-site-a-towers-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/video-demolition-companys-view-of-voa-site-a-towers-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Demolition company&#8217;s view of VOA Site A towers falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-472016-113932-AM.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18140\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18140\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-472016-113932-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Fullscreen capture 472016 113932 AM\" width=\"650\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-472016-113932-AM.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-472016-113932-AM-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-472016-113932-AM-500x279.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s fascinating to watch the video footage of the VOA Site A towers falling, it&#8217;s also a little heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in a previous post, <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/any-requests-heading-to-the-edward-r-murrow-transmitting-station\/\">I spent time last week<\/a> at the VOA Site A&#8217;s twin site: VOA Site B (now the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station).<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s a little tough for me to watch, imagine how difficult it is for the engineers who lovingly cared for these giant antennas for so many decades.\u00a0Still, VOA Site A&#8217;s antennas <em>needed<\/em> to be demolished&#8211;they hadn&#8217;t been in operation since 2006 and would have soon become a hazard to anyone on the site.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just tough to see these powerhouse curtain antennas collapse:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zcsbny8PFZw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zcsbny8PFZw\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Post<\/em> Readers<\/strong>: I&#8217;m hoping to have time this weekend to put together the photos I took last week and <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/any-requests-heading-to-the-edward-r-murrow-transmitting-station\/\">responses to your questions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s fascinating to watch the video footage of the VOA Site A towers falling, it&#8217;s also a little heartbreaking. As I mentioned in a previous post, I spent time last week at the VOA Site A&#8217;s twin site: VOA Site B (now the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station). While it&#8217;s a little tough for [&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":[2658,10,2657,4932,182],"class_list":["post-18139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-edward-r-murrow-transmitting-station","tag-voa","tag-voa-site-a","tag-voa-site-a-demolition","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4Iz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18087,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/voa-site-a-antennas-and-towers-demolished\/","url_meta":{"origin":18139,"position":0},"title":"VOA Site A antennas and towers demolished","author":"Thomas","date":"April 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"On Friday, I spent the afternoon at the Edward R. 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VOA Site A ia a mirror image of the\u00a0Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station\u00a0and is\u00a0being sold as surplus property: PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: Site \u201cA\u201d Transmitting Station is approximately 2,822 acres with improvements containing 54,318 square feet of rentable area. The main transmitter building was constructed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Surplus Notice","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Surplus-Notice.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Surplus-Notice.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Surplus-Notice.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Surplus-Notice.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18590,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/edward-r-murrow-shortwave-transmitting-station-wallpaper-images\/","url_meta":{"origin":18139,"position":2},"title":"Edward R. Murrow Shortwave Transmitting Station: wallpaper images","author":"Thomas","date":"April 29, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"On April 1st, I spent the bulk of the day at the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station\u00a0outside of Greenville, North Carolina. Prior to my visit, I asked if SWLing Post readers had any requests or questions I could address while there. I printed all of your inquiries and made sure\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"VOA-site-B-Wallpaper-MainBuilding2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VOA-site-B-Wallpaper-MainBuilding2-1-1024x640.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VOA-site-B-Wallpaper-MainBuilding2-1-1024x640.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VOA-site-B-Wallpaper-MainBuilding2-1-1024x640.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3494,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/edward-r-murrow-transmitting-station-re-dedication-videos\/","url_meta":{"origin":18139,"position":3},"title":"Edward R. 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