The community has rallied around "The Dawg," Mike Kirtner explains

The severed transmission line leading up WDGG(FM)’s antenna tower in Boyd County, Ky. Credit: Mike Kirtner

Evan Adkins, director of engineering, called Mike Kirtner, the president of Kindred Communications, last Thursday just prior to lunchtime.

“Are you sitting down?” Adkins asked Kirtner after he answered the phone.

Kirtner, 75, has seen a lot in his time as a broadcast owner in the tri-state area of Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio along the Ohio River.

One of his AM station’s copper radials once fell victim to a copper thief cutting its wires.

But an FM transmission line being snapped and cleared in broad daylight?…