FM- And TV-mast Helsinki-Espoo
FM- and TV-mast Helsinki-Espoo is a mast located on Harmaakallio hill near Latokaski, Espoo, Finland. Its current height is . When the mast was first built in 1971, its height was 303 metres (994'). Its height was increased to 326 metres (1070') in 1988, when the station was expanded, and the present mast was erected. It shares the title of third highest structure in Finland, after the Tiirismaa (in Hollola), and Haapavesi radio and TV masts. The radio mast in Kiiminki has the same height. Controversy with regard to Soviet-occupied Estonia in the 1980s The Helsinki-Espoo FM- and TV-mast originally used United States, American technology, and since it also transmitted, unintentionally however, the Finnish TV broadcasts to TV sets in northern Estonia, there was a suspicion in the Estonian SSR, Soviet-occupied Estonia, and more specifically, within the Estonian Communist Party, that United States, Americans had something to do with this FM- and TV-mast, and that it was in their inter ...
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