{"id":625948,"date":"2026-09-16T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/625948\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:12:09","slug":"former-wslc-am-radio-towers-come-down-in-salem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/625948\/","title":{"rendered":"Former WSLC AM radio towers come down in Salem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SALEM, Va. (WDBJ) &#8211; Five towers that were part of the Salem skyline and the local radio landscape for more than 60 years came down Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They were located on property where the studios of 610 AM WSLC were located for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WSLC went silent last October, but in the 1960s it was a country music powerhouse here in the Roanoke Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All five towers came down on Tuesday, making way for new development on the 39-acre site.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WDBJ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALEM, Va. (WDBJ) &#8211; Five towers that were part of the Salem skyline and the local radio landscape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,700,117741,68941,13475,265764],"class_list":["post-625948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-radio","tag-salem","tag-towers","tag-virginia","tag-wslc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}