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KATV tower

Jefferson County, United States

The 4th tallest tower in the world

609.6 m · 2,000 ft

The KATV tower was an American 2,000-foot (610 m)-tall television mast (or antenna tower) built in 1965, which was located in Barraque Township, Arkansas, off of Arkansas Highway 365 (at 34°28′24.0″N 92°12′11.0″W). At the time of its completion, it was the third-tallest human-made structure and second-tallest broadcast tower in the world (behind the 2, 063-foot [629 m] KVLY-TV mast in Blanchard, North Dakota), and the tallest structure in Arkansas. As of August 2006, the tower was tied with 15 other 2000-foot masts, all built after it, as the fifth-tallest structure in the world (sixth, counting the submerged Petronius oil platform). In addition to the analog and digital transmitters of its namesake, Little Rock ABC affiliate KATV (channel 7), it also hosted the analog transmitter of KETS (channel 2), the Little Rock flagship station of Arkansas PBS.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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