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WDIO-TV Duluth, Minnesota, US March 23, 1991: Guyed steel triangular tower 259 Ice and high wind Freezing rain, accompanied at time with thunder, coated the city of Duluth with as much as six inches of ice. The 850-foot WDIO-TV tower was toppled as winds gusted to 40 mph, buffeting the heavily ice-covered tower.
WDIO-DT (channel 10) is a television station in Duluth, Minnesota, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Hubbard Broadcasting. The station's studios and transmitter are located on Observation Road in Duluth.
WSM-TV Tower: Nashville, Tennessee, US: Guyed mast (under construction) 4 dead 1957: ... Highland Towers collapse (Block 1) Selangor, Malaysia: Residential tower:
The Senior Road Tower is a guyed mast for FM and TV broadcasting, measuring 1,971 feet (601 m) tall, located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County near Missouri City, Texas, United States. The present mast was built in 1983. It replaced a previous tower that collapsed in a construction accident in December 1982, killing five workers.
The tower toppled just before 10 a.m. as a crew of workers performed routine maintenance on the nearly 200-foot-tall structure. 1 dead, 3 injured after TV tower collapses in Missouri Skip to main ...
The KTVO-TV Tower was a 2000 ft (609.6 m) tall television mast (or antenna tower) built near Colony, Missouri that collapsed on June 3, 1988, as workers were replacing structural braces. Three workers were killed in the collapse, which happened in calm weather.
Duluth would be a two-station market until WDIO-TV signed on in 1966. The market would not get another major UHF station until 1999 when KQDS-TV upgraded and affiliated with the Fox network. The bottom portion of the tower used by WEBC-FM and WFTV still stands, and is used today for telecommunications. [3]
Secondary affiliation (KGCT-TV was an independent station); cleared ABC programming not cleared by the network's existing affiliate KTUL. Left the air in 1987 as a result of freezing rain which caused the tower KGCT-TV was using to collapse, and returned to the air in 1991 (as KTFO) without an ABC affiliation. Twin Falls, Idaho: KKVI 35 (now KXTF)