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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 ...
Guyed Mast 491 m WJJY TV Mast: Bluffs, Illinois: Guyed Mast destroyed in 1978 491 m Media General Tower Jackson Jackson, Mississippi: Guyed Mast 491 m WHNS TV-Tower: Brevard, North Carolina: Guyed Mast 490.7 m KOBR-TV Tower: Caprock, New Mexico: Guyed Mast 490.2 m Joint Venture TV Tower Bithlo Bithlo, Florida: Guyed Mast 489.2 m American Towers ...
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.
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)
KRDK-TV mast The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at 828 m (2,717 ft). Listed are guyed masts (such as telecommunication masts), self-supporting towers (such as the CN Tower ), skyscrapers (such as the Willis Tower ), oil platforms , electricity transmission towers, and bridge support towers.
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.