Des Moines FOX affiliate KDSM/17 has returned to the air on its own transmitter a month after a contractor died in a fall at its tower site near Alleman.
The Sinclair Broadcast Group FOX station’s programming had been simulcast on channel 13.3 of Tribune’s WHO-DT since late May. Social media posts indicate channel 17.1 returned to the air over the weekend and a simulcast on 13.3 ended Monday:
KDSM had gone off the air May 17 due to problems with its transmission line. On May 22, 47-year-old PCI Communications employee Kevin D. Wright died in a fall from the tower.
Wright reportedly fell from about 1,000 feet up the 2,000-foot structure, which is owned by American Tower.