[WVDXA] NBC Dateline Monday Explores Tower Climbers

[W8TN - Clark]

Climbers to get their day in the sun!

NBC's "Dateline" to explore the perilous world of tower dogs on July 21

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 frontlines
of  America's high-tech communications system."  The program, "Tower Dogs,"
will air on  Monday, July 21 at 10:00 PM/ET.

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.  In 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 one piece. Although there has
been a noted increase  in tower construction company owners and climbers
that are women
(<http://www.wirelessestimator.com/t_content.cfm?pagename=Women Climbers>),
they are in a small minority in a predominately male  profession.

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. Please see: National  exposure long
overdue, say many.

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25736991/>

<http://www.wirelessestimator.com/t_content.cfm?pagename=Tower%20Dogs>
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