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I still don’t understand how they didn’t notice they were off the air
Automation.
Automation and it's also possible this was a repeater tower... so, not the main broadcast tower but one that fills in a dead zone within the market. Radio and TV stations use repeaters in areas with a lot of hills or tall buildings.