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Guyed mast broadcast tower in Atlanta, Georgia

The WSB-TV tower is a 327.6-meter (1,075 ft) guyed mast broadcast tower in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, immediately adjacent to Freedom Parkway and the Historic Fourth Ward Park skate park. The tower was built in 1950, and at its completion was the tallest guyed mast tower in the United States. It has a triangular cross section.

This tower is so close to Freedom Parkway that one of its three sets of guy wires goes over the road, which was built under the tower system in the 1990s. To protect against falling ice during and after freezing rain in winter, the roadway is covered with a sturdy bridge-like structure at this point.

Stations

The FCC lists the following FM and television stations at this location:

WSB-TV 32 (2.x) Atlanta, and formerly VHF analog channel 2, owned and operated by Cox Media Group
W296BB FM 107.1 "Jonesboro", a broadcast translator officially assigned to retransmit WSB-FM HD3 as a legal fiction to allow it to simulcast WTSH-FM 107.1 (also operated by Cox Radio) further east and southeast than it would otherwise be allowed

During the 2000s, the WSB-TV tower carried both the analog TV signal on VHF channel 2 (54 to 60 MHz) and the current digital TV signal on UHF (620 to 626 MHz). Following the DTV transition in the United States, which forced analog TV stations off-air in June 2009, the old antenna (larger due to the longer wavelength of lower carrier frequencies) was removed from the top, and the smaller UHF antenna moved in its place, improving its broadcast range slightly, due to the increase in height.

References

""City Café", Public Broadcasting Atlanta (PBA), 2009". pba.org. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
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33°45′52″N 84°21′42″W / 33.764444°N 84.361667°W / 33.764444; -84.361667

ASR Registration 1031790

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Historic (pre-WWII)	Bona Allen (1923) Candler (1906) Carnegie (1925) Connally (1916) Cox-Carlton (1925) Flatiron (1897) Georgian Terrace (1911) Glenn (1923) Healey (1914) Hurt (1926) J. Mack Robinson (Empire) (1901) The Metropolitan (1911) Ponce de Leon Apartments (1913) Rhodes-Haverty (1929) Southern Bell (1929) William-Oliver (1930) Winecoff Hotel (1913) W. D. Grant (1898)
Downtown	25 Park Place (Trust Company of Georgia) 55 Marietta Street (Fulton National Bank) 101 Marietta Street 191 Peachtree Tower Coastal States Building Equitable Five Points Plaza Fourth National Bank building Georgia Power Georgia-Pacific Tower Hyatt Regency Atlanta Marriott Marquis One Park Tower Peachtree Center Peachtree Summit State of Georgia Building Truist Plaza TWELVE Centennial Park Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel
Midtown	999 Peachtree 12th & Midtown 1010 Midtown 10 Sixty Five Midtown 1075 Peachtree 1100 Peachtree 1180 Peachtree 1280 West Tower Square Regions Plaza Atlantic Station 171 17th Street The Atlantic Bank of America Plaza Coca-Cola Colony Square CNN Center Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta/GLG Grand Mayfair Condominiums One Atlantic Center (IBM Tower) One Georgia Center Promenade II Spire Ten Peachtree Place ViewPoint Yoo on the Park
Buckhead	2828 Peachtree 3344 Peachtree 3630 Peachtree Atlanta Financial Center Atlanta Plaza Buckhead Grand Mandarin Oriental Paramount at Buckhead Park Avenue Condominiums Park Place The Pinnacle Realm Resurgens Plaza Terminus Tower Place
Perimeter Center	Concourse Corporate Center V & VI (King & Queen towers) Park Towers I & II Three Ravinia Drive

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1105 West Peachtree Atlanta Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal Atlanta Symphony Center Midtown Union Opus Place The Stitch

See also: Atlanta sports venues

v t e Old Fourth Ward and Sweet Auburn, Atlanta
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park and Preservation District	APEX Museum Atlanta Daily World building Atlanta Life Insurance Company building Auburn Ave. Research Library Big Bethel AME Church Herndon Building (demolished) Gandhi Promenade International Civil Rights Walk of Fame King Birth Home King Center Ebenezer Baptist Church MLK National Historic Site Odd Fellows Bldg. Prince Hall Masonic Temple Sweet Auburn Curb Market Wheat Street Baptist Church
Other buildings	Atlanta Civic Center Atlanta Medical Center Edward C. Peters House Egleston Children's Hospital (1928–1959) Homage to King Morris Brown College (1885–1932) National NuGrape Company Lofts Ponce City Market Rio Shopping Center (demolished) Sister Louisa's Church WSB-TV tower
Neighborhoods	Buttermilk Bottom Sweet Auburn U-Rescue Villa
Parks	Central Park Freedom Park Historic Fourth Ward Park Ponce de Leon amusement park Ponce de Leon Springs Renaissance Park
People	Martin Luther King Jr. Edward C. Peters
Roads	Boulevard Edgewood Avenue Freedom Parkway Freeway revolt (1970s–1980s) Highland Avenue I-485 Ponce de Leon Avenue
Transportation	Atlanta Streetcar King Memorial (MARTA station) Nine-Mile Circle Streetcar Line
Druid Hills Inman Park Midtown Morningside-Lenox Park Poncey–Highland Virginia–Highland All neighborhoods of Atlanta

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