Bytków TV Tower is a RadioTV tower in Siemianowice Śląskie, Poland, on the border with Bytków, an urban part of

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. Bytków TV Tower, situated at , has a unique design: it consists of a

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tower as its base, with the appearance of a thin

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with a square cross section. On the top of this concrete tower, there is a horizontal steel cross turned at an angle of 45 degree to the sides of the concrete tower. At the ends of the crossarms, which are equipped with gangways, the antenna mast on its top is guyed. Bytków TV Tower is operated by company Emitel SA, is not accessible for visitors and is used for directional radio services, FM- and TV-

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s. It started broadcasting in 1957.

Transmitted programmes

Digital Television
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External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070930193727/http://emi.emitel.pl/EMITEL/obiekty.aspx?obiekt=DODR_S1G * https://web.archive.org/web/20070928014816/http://ukf.pl/index.php/topic,47.msg155.html#msg155 * http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b47692 * http://radiopolska.pl/wykaz/pokaz_lokalizacja.php?pid=182 Buildings and structures in Silesian Voivodeship Radio masts and towers in Poland 1957 establishments in Poland Towers completed in 1957 Siemianowice Śląskie {{poland-struct-stub

Transmitted programmes

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Digital Television
MPEG-4 MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats. It was originally introduced in late 1998 as a group of audio and video coding formats and related tec ...