PORT ANGELES — With impressive precision, the radio tower from which KONP-AM broadcast for decades was cut down this morning.
The mast was cut in half, and a crane lowered the piece perfectly into the parking lot of the Peninsula Daily News’ Port Angeles offices next door to the former studios of the radio station.
The second half soon was detached from the ground and set beside the upper portion.
KONP Station Manager Todd Ortloff said the tower will be cut apart and salvaged. However, he will keep the top beacon — a glass-enclosed light about the size of a watercooler jug that will be cleaned up and placed in the station’s lobby next to a relic Associated Press teletype machine.
The station’s transmitters for 1450 AM and 101.7 FM are now in east Port Angeles near Peninsula Golf Club.
Read our earlier report on the tower removal: https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20130607/NEWS/306079991/0/SEARCH
