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The KVLY-TV mast (formerly the KTHI-TV mast) is a television-transmitting mast in Blanchard, North Dakota. It is used by Fargo station KVLY-TV (channel 11) and KXJB-LD 's Argusville / Valley City / Mayville translator K28MA-D (channel 28), along with KNGF (channel 27).
Though delayed by the discovery that Bethlehem Steel had produced defective steel for the tower and two others across the country, [18] the structure was completed on November 8, 1963, when a 113-foot (34 m) antenna for channel 11 was affixed to the top of the 1,950-foot (590 m) mast. [19] Built in 1964, the KVLY-TV mast was the world's tallest ...
This includes the former world's tallest man-made structure, the KVLY-TV mast, surpassed by the Burj Khalifa in 2010. History Timeline: 1923- Kline Iron and Metal, Co. founded. [1] 1984- Central Tower founded. 2000- Merger with American Tower Corporation. [2] 2001- Central Tower is acquired by Dielectric Communications. [3]
TV mast of Shaanxi No.9 Transmitting Station, Chang'an, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China: December 16, 1977 [9] Guyed steel tubular mast 26 Ice WJJY TV Mast, Bluffs, IL: March 26, 1978: Guyed steel lattice mast 491 24 two-inch coupling bolts connecting the second and third sections of the tower snapped due to ice formation In August 1969.
Guyed Mast 605.6: KVLY-TV mast: Blanchard, North Dakota: Guyed Mast 605 m KELO TV Tower: Rowena, South Dakota: Guyed Mast 605 m WITN Tower (Gray Television Tower) Grifton, North Carolina: Guyed Mast 604.7 m Noe Corp Tower: Columbia, Louisiana: Guyed Mast 603.6 m
From 1974 until its collapse in 1991, the Warsaw radio mast in Poland also eclipsed the KVLY-TV mast. This tower is used so KVLY-TV can cover both Fargo and Grand Forks. In 2019, the top mount antenna was removed, dropping the overall height to 1,987 ft (605.6 m) [8] KRDK-TV Television Tower (Fargo/Valley City CBS 4) Height: 2,060 ft (628 m)
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.
The KVLY-TV mast, the tallest man-made structure in the Western Hemisphere, stands near Blanchard. The mast is used to transmit television broadcasts from the Fargo station KVLY-TV and was the tallest man-made structure in the world from 1963 to 1974 and again from 1991 to 2008. It is currently the fourth-tallest man-made structure in the world.