{"id":601660,"date":"2026-09-16T02:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/601660\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T02:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:16:12","slug":"former-wslc-am-radio-towers-come-down-in-salem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/601660\/","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":601661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,4965,131920,34456,34462,296492],"class_list":["post-601660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-radio","tag-salem","tag-towers","tag-virginia","tag-wslc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}