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High winds blamed for KRIS-TV tower collapse,

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A transmitter building was slighting damaged on one corner after the guyed tower fell at approximately 8:30 a.m.

The tower is owned by Scripps Broadcasting and was constructed in 1988. Scripps acquired the tower in May of 2019 from KRIS Communications.

Scripps’ Corpus Christi station KRIS-TV blamed the collapse due to high winds that swept through Texas’ Coastal Bend yesterday.

According to Weather Underground, at the time of the failure the wind speed was only at 25 mph with one gust of 43 mph
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KRIS-TV was off OTA and could only been seen on cable and internet OTT outlets for the time being.
 
A question that comes to mind is whether the economics of OTA reception in 2020 will warrant the rebuilding of tall towers in the US, much like what happened to some of the lesser CBC outlets in Canada a few years back.
 
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