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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 ...
The KVLY-TV mast is the tallest structure in the United States, at 2,063 ft (629 m) tall Galesville, Wisconsin WKBT-DT tower. This is a list of the tallest structures in the US that are at least 350 meters, ordered by height.
The KRDK-TV tower is the world's fourth-tallest man-made structure. It had collapsed three times due to winter and summer storms, though the first time it collapsed in 1968, it was caused from a Marine helicopter cutting four guy wires of the tower. The KVLY TV tower, was the world's fourth-tallest man-made structure, is only about 5 mi (8.0 km ...
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.
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.