Libyan State TV, the main conduit for pro-Qaddafi propaganda, continued broadcasting until midday Monday. According to Reuters, the station went dark after the rebels stormed its offices.
The New York Times reports that NATO bombings took out several of the station’s transmission dishes this summer, and that NATO was under pressure to take it off the airwaves completely by bombing its station headquarters.
This weekend, a station anchor brought a gun on air and swore that she and other staffers at the station would rather die fighting than allow the rebels to take control of the station, Al Jazeera reports.
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Libyan State TV offices
