reubensm
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Heavy rain and strong winds lashed Trivandrum on Friday last week, leading to many old trees getting up-rooted. However the biggest casualty of the evening was the Medium Wave Transmission tower of All India Radio - Trivandrum. The 60 meter tall, 1973-errected tower, crashed to the ground and was completely destroyed. This tower, located near College of Engineering, Trivandrum was one of the landmarks of the city and was responsible for transmission covering Trivandrum and Kollam district (20 KW, Medium Wave). This is the very first time, in the station's history that they have service outage, since this tower was commissioned in 1973. The Trivandrum station, however, was commissioned much earlier, in 1937.
News bulletins have been flipped to the Vividh Bharti FM station which provides local Trivandrum coverage and a new tower is being brought in from Chennai. AIR says that transmissions will restart in a week, however the wait could be even longer. The cost for commissioning a new tower is around 5 crore.
News bulletins have been flipped to the Vividh Bharti FM station which provides local Trivandrum coverage and a new tower is being brought in from Chennai. AIR says that transmissions will restart in a week, however the wait could be even longer. The cost for commissioning a new tower is around 5 crore.
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