[TowerTalk] "Tower Dogs"

[N1QXV]

Excellent footage..

Did you guys catch $14 per hr !

What are they insane at that rate ?

I thought $50 per hr or by the job.

John
N1QXV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mel Whitten" <mel at melwhitten.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 8:19 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] "Tower Dogs" NBC Dateline 7-21 10pm Eastern


> This may be of interest to the group.
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> Mel, K0PFX
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> NBC's "Dateline" to explore the perilous world of tower dogs on July 21
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> NBC's "Dateline  Presents" says it will take "a never-before-seen journey
> into the  hazardous world of the tower climbers who work on the front 
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> of America's high-tech communications system." The program, "Tower Dogs,"
> will air on  Monday, July 21 at 10:00 PM/EASTERN TIME.
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> The hour-long broadcast is expected to give an up close and personal
> no-holds-barred look at tower dogs' lives - up in the air and on the 
> ground.
> "We experience their on-the-job tension and watch them work hard, play 
> hard,
> and mourn when they lose one of their own," NBC said in a press release. 
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> a twist on all the dangerous-job programs that solely feature males,
> typically narrated with muscular prose, "Tower Dogs"
> follows an unusual tower crew boss: a woman named Nikki Collins, a single
> mom, former cheerleader, and the person keeping her tough-guy charges in 
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> piece. Although there has been a noted increase in tower construction
> company owners and climbers that are women they are in a small minority in 
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> predominately male profession.
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> The "Dateline" team worked for four months documenting this group of tower
> climbers as they worked their way through 40 towns and cities in 24 
> states.
> During this time there were seven fatalities nationwide, including five
> deaths in a 12-day period in April. National exposure long overdue, say
> many.
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