WLWT TV Tower
Appearance
WLWT TV Tower | |
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General information | |
Status | Completed |
Type | Steel lattice television tower |
Location | Cincinnati, Ohio |
Coordinates | 39°07′27″N 84°31′18″W / 39.12417°N 84.52167°W |
Completed | 1978 |
Height | 289.6 m (950 ft) |
The WLWT TV Tower is a free-standing lattice tower with triangular cross section used by WLWT located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Built in 1978[1], it replaced the original 570-foot tall WLWT tower[2][3] built in 1948 at the same site on Chickasaw Street, in the Mount Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati. The new tower stands 289.6 m (950 ft) tall[4], one of four that rise above 900 feet in the city and is amongst the tallest lattice towers in the world.
Stations
Television
TV stations that transmit from WLWT TV Tower include the following:
Callsign | Virtual Channel | Physical Channel | Affiliation | Digital channels |
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WLWT-TV | 5 | 5 | NBC | 20 |
WCET-TV | 48 | 17 | PBS | 48 |
WPTO-TV |