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The collapse destroyed the tower, KLTV's analog and digital antennas, KLTV's digital transmitter, and FM station KVNE's antenna. The analog transmitter was undamaged, and within a few days was moved to KLTV's backup tower in east Tyler. The collapse occurred the day after Raycom Media officially took ownership of the station. WALB-TV Mast ...
Cape Race LORAN-C transmitter mast collapse: Cape Race, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: Mast: 1993: Collapse of the Royal Plaza Hotel: Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand ...
Until 8 August 1991, the Warsaw radio mast was the world's tallest supported structure on land; its collapse left the KVLY / KTHI-TV mast as the tallest. There are over 50 radio structures in the United States that are 600 m ( 1 968.5 ft ) or taller.
KTXH suffered a $1.5 million loss in equipment, including the transmitter, on which the falling mast collapsed. [7] [9] A man in the transmitter building saw the tower collapse and fled. [10] In the wake of the accident, the Senior Road Tower Group assigned blame to a clamping device that fastened the antenna to the cable. [9]
The main mast of the schooner Grace Bailey splintered and fell onto the deck on Oct. 9. The collapse killed Dr. Emily Mecklenburg, 40, a physician from Rockland.
The Warsaw Radio Mast (Polish: Maszt radiowy w Warszawie) was a radio mast located near Gąbin, Poland, and was the world's tallest structure at 2,120 ft (646.30 m) from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991. [1] The mast was designed for extreme height in order to broadcast Communist propaganda around the world, including to the remotest ...
The second mast fell during an ice storm which hit the area on April 6, 1997, subjecting it to wind gusts of 70 mph and causing at least four inches (100 mm) of ice to accumulate on the structure, resulting in the structure's failure at 6:09 p.m. Cable programming was resumed by 8:34 and broadcasts by 3 p.m. the following afternoon through ...
The tower's current official name, The Arqiva Tower, [4] is shown on a sign beside the offices at the base of the tower, but it is commonly known just as "Emley Moor Mast". [ 1 ] In 2021, the antenna was replaced, to accommodate frequency changes for mobile phone use, by a shorter antenna of 36 ft (11 m) but the structure still remains the ...