Alabama Radio Station Struggles to Resume Broadcasting After Thieves Steal Transmission Tower

WJLX 101.5 in Walker County reported the incident on Feb. 2 after workers discovered the 200-foot transmission tower was missing.

Antennas at the peak of Saddleback Mountain on June 26, 2009. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

WJLX 101.5 FM in Jasper, Alabama, hopes to resume broadcasting soon after brazen thieves allegedly made off with the station’s 200-foot radio tower in early February.

“Unfortunately, the transmitter site was uninsured. We are currently working to rebuild, but being a small market station in Alabama, we have a large hill to climb,” WJLX General Manager Brett Elmore wrote on Facebook.