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It operated from a 1,610-foot (491 m) tower near Bluffs, Illinois, one of the three tallest structures in North America at the time. It was topped with an experimental RCA "Vee-Zee" antenna, one of only three ever constructed.
The first tower he built was for airport use. [1] ROHN first began producing antenna towers for home television reception, and subsequently expanded its product line to include the manufacturing of telecommunication towers and other communication products, including broadcast towers of up to 2,000 feet high. [ 1 ]
WJYS (channel 62) is an independent television station licensed to Hammond, Indiana, United States, serving the Chicago area. Owned by Millennial Telecommunications, Inc., WJYS maintains studio facilities on South Oak Park Avenue in Tinley Park, Illinois, and its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower.
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Carbondale/~Paducah KY: Johnston City: 15 15 W15BU-D: 3ABN: 3ABN Proclaim on 15.2, 3ABN Dare to Dream on 15.3, 3ABN Latino on 15.4, 3ABN Kids on 15.5, 3ABN Radio on 15.6, 3ABN Radio Latino on 15.7, Radio 74 on 15.8
Media General Tower Saint Ansgar Saint Ansgar, Iowa: Guyed Mast 477 m Red River Broadcast Tower Salem Salem, South Dakota: Guyed Mast 476.4 m Hearst-Argyle Television Tower Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Guyed Mast 475.6 m Augusta Tower Jackson, South Carolina: Guyed Mast 475.5 m WAGT TV Tower: Beech Island, South Carolina: Guyed Mast 475.1 m KPLX Tower
The company was founded by Chicago broadcasting veteran John Weigel, whose career dated back to the 1930s. With $1,000 of his own money and another $1,000 from his attorney, Daniel J. McCarthy, Weigel bought the broadcasting license for what became the first UHF television station in the Chicago area.
WMBD Tower, Peoria, Illinois, US May 10, 2003: Free-standing steel lattice tower ? Tornado: Collapse of three towers, following collapse of larger single tower at same site by straight-line winds on 20 April 2000 KETV TV Tower July 2003: Guyed steel lattice mast 415 Reconstruction work WIFR TV tower July 5, 2003: Guyed steel lattice mast 222 Storm
[40] [41] It also required some viewers in Decatur proper to buy a second antenna to clearly receive WAND alongside other stations. [42] At right is the 400.5-meter (1,314.0 ft) WAND tower near Argenta, Illinois. [43] On March 26, 1978, WAND's tower was brought down by a massive ice storm, narrowly missing a house. [44]