WECT tower
The WECT tower is a 2000 ft (609.6 m) tall mast used as antenna for FM- and TV-broadcasting. It was built in 1969 and is situated at Colly Township, North Carolina, USA at 34°34'44.0" N and 78°26'12.0" W. WECT TV6 Tower is, along with several other masts, the seventh tallest man-made structure ever created; it is not only the tallest structure in North Carolina, but also the tallest in the United States east of the Mississippi River.
On September 8, 2008, WECT ceased regular transmission of their analog signal from the Bladen County tower, relying instead on its newer channel 44 digital transmitter in Winnabow.[1] An instructional video explaining installation of converters and UHF antennas was left to run on the former WECT-TV 6 until the end of September,[2] but many who were able to receive the former VHF analog WECT will no longer be able to receive the station at all digitally,[3] due to a shift to a UHF channel and a vastly smaller coverage area.[4]
WECT will continue to utilize the former analog tower for newsgathering purposes.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ WECT engineer says Big Switch took some improvisation, Si Cantwell, Wilmington Star-News, September 27, 2008
- ^ WECT Airs DTV Instructional Video, TVNEWSDAY, Sep 22, 2008
- ^ Early Digital-TV Switch Has Flaw: Viewers Could Lose Certain Channels on Permanent Basis, Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2008, cited here.
- ^ FCC Looking For Lost Channels In Digital TV Switch, September 16, 2008
- ^ WECT - Big Switch Minute: Answering your questions, August 13, 2008
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Listing 1006713 in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Antenna Structure Registration database
- Skyscraper Page diagrams
- WECT TV6 Tower at Structurae
Coordinates: 34°34′40″N 78°26′30″W / 34.5778°N 78.4417°W
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