> I was on the MS Gulf Coast this weekend looking at all the
> devastation. Does anyone have any updates on the radio
> stations down there? Was any facilities/towers etc. lost in
> Katrina? If so, what is the status on them?
>
The building housing Triad was at least partially gutted.
Mississippi Public Television and NPR Coast tower came down.
I do not know the extent of the damage to the buildings Housing Clear Channel and Dowdy.
WLOX-TV was flooded out of its broadcast studios during the storm and it took about a month to get things cleaned up there.
As present I believe all major structual repairs have been made.
NPR has a new tower up and running.
On Biloxi beach the pink building housing Shark Head beach shop was gutted, I believe a radio station once operated from the top floor of that building way, way back.
I know there are accounts of serveral broadcasting folks whose personal homes were taken down as well.
