WTVR TV Tower

The WTVR TV Tower is 257 m (843 ft) tall a free-standing lattice tower in Richmond, Virginia.[1] It broadcasts WTVR-FM and has been in operation since 1953.

WTVR TV Tower
WTVR TV Tower is located in the United States
WTVR TV Tower
General information
TypeSteel lattice television tower
LocationRichmond, Virginia
Coordinates37°33′59″N 77°28′34″W
Completed1953
Height257 m (843 ft)

History
WTVR tower looking directly up from its base

Upon completion in 1953, the tower became the tallest in the United States[2] and the second tallest lattice tower in the world after the Eiffel Tower and only surpassed in height by five buildings; the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, 70 Pine Street, 40 Wall Street & the GE Building.[3] It was a substantive increase from previous tallest towers of any type built in the United States, the NSS Annapolis. It remains to this day the tallest man made structure in Virginia.[4]

The tower is currently only used by WTVR-FM. Even though WTVR-TV and WTVR-FM still share the same WTVR call letters they are no longer affiliated with each other and are under different ownership. WTVR-TV no longer broadcasts from this tower. WTVR-TV shares a transmitter with PBS member stations WCVE-TV and WCVW. WTVR-TV stopped transmitting from this tower during the analog to digital conversion in 2009.[5] The tower is still called the WTVR-TV tower because of its history, despite no longer broadcasting from this tower. On November 1, 2017, iHeartMedia announced that WTVR-FM, along with all of their sister stations in Richmond and Chattanooga, would be sold to Entercom due to that company's merger with CBS Radio.[6] The sale was completed on December 19, 2017.[7] The tower is considered part of the Richmond skyline and can be seen for several miles around. WTVR-TV's West Broad studios is located directly next to the tower. The station used a graphical version of the tower in its news opens for several years in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Stations

Radio

Currently only WTVR-FM transmits from WTVR Tower.[8]

CallsignFrequencyFormatOwner
WTVR-FM98.1Adult contemporaryEntercom Communications

See also

References
  1. "WTVR TV Tower - The Skyscraper Center". Skyscrapercenter.com.
  2. "WTVR-TV Studio Transmitter, Richmond | 130636 | EMPORIS". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on July 2, 2020.
  3. "The World's Tallest Buildings 1960". Tudl0867.home.xs4all.nl.
  4. "Richmond | EMPORIS". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on July 3, 2020.
  5. "TV Query Result : WUDW-LD, VA RICHMOND". Transition.fcc.gov. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  6. "Entercom Trades Boston & Seattle Spin-Offs To iHeartMedia For Richmond & Chattanooga - RadioInsight". Radioinsight.com. 1 November 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  7. "Consummation Notice". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. December 19, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  8. "TV Query Result : WTVR-FM, VA RICHMOND". Transition.fcc.gov. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
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