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Millennium Transmitter (ABS-CBN Tower)
The Millennium Transmitter at night. 2012
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General information
TypeCommunications tower
LocationQuezon City, Philippines
Construction startedMid-1968
CompletedMarch 21, 1969
OwnerABS-CBN Corporation
Height
Antenna spire219.5 m (720 ft)

Millennium Transmitter 720 ft (219.5 m), 346.2 kilowatt ERP transmitter of ABS-CBN Corporation located at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center, Mother Ignacia Street corner Sgt. Esguerra Avenue, Quezon City. It serves as a transmitter facility for both ABS-CBN and ABS-CBN Sports+Action.

History

The Millennium Transmitter
Millennium Transmitter (right) before the renovation.

The Millennium Transmitter also called ABS-CBN Tower was constructed at the corner of Mother Ignacia Street and Sgt. Esguerra Avenue, within the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Centre. It began in the third quarter of 1968, the transmitter is located in a vacant lot and lasted for months to completion. On March 21, 1969, the transmitter began transmitting television programs and also used to beam color broadcasts in Metro Manila, and to nearby provinces. After Martial law was declared on September 21, 1972, as ABS-CBN suspended their operations in the following day and at the same time, it was sold to the crony-owned BBC-2 from 1973 to 1979 and GTV/MBS-4 from 1974 to 1986 used to beam channel 2's and channel 4's programs. When the EDSA Revolution happened, both the transmitter and Broadcast Plaza are stormed by the reformist rebels as escalating battle occurred on February 24, 1986. After the revolution, the transmitter was returned to the original owner to re-air channel 2.

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The newly renovated Millennium Transmitter (left).

Its former height is 650 ft (198.1 m), until the time when ABS-CBN started a major reconstruction and rehabilitation of the whole transmitter, which includes the changing of its previously used cylinder antennas to even more powerful dipole antennas with reflector, and increase of its height which was finished by the 3rd quarter of 2009.[1]

Features

The Transmitter

The Millennium Transmitter uses its newly installed dipole antennas with reflector, and UHF panel antennas for wide coverage of VHF and UHF TV reception in Metro Manila some nearby provinces in both grades A and B, for the broadcasts of DWWX-TV and DWAC-TV respectively.

The Transmitter Facility

The transmitter facility houses both DWWX-TV and DWAC-TV that contains sets of transmitter equipment imported by Harris and Jampro of the United States.

See also

References

  1. ^ An “Improvised” TV Antenna of ABS-CBN of 2009 « Albert Cornelio Blog Community PH. Albcorph.wordpress.com (2009-08-24). Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
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