Dobrich TV Tower is a 190-metre high
TV tower
Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. There are two main types: guyed and self-supporting structures. They are among the tallest human-made ...
built of reinforced concrete near
Dobrich
Dobrich ( bg, Добрич ; ro, Bazargic, tr, Hacıoğlu Pazarcık) is the List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, 9th most populated city in Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Dobrich Province and the capital of the region of Southern Dobr ...
in
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
. Dobrich TV Tower, which was designed by Petar Andreev, was completed in 1979 and has an observation deck open for tourists. The tower is located in the southern edge of the city, in between the Gaazi Baba and
Prostor neighbourhoods, just northeast of
Temple Arhangel Mihail and the cemetery connected to it.
Dobrich AM transmitter
A few kilometres away from Dobrich TV Tower, there is a
mediumwave
Medium wave (MW) is the part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting. The spectrum provides about 120 channels with more limited sound quality than FM stations on the FM broadcast band. During the daytime ...
broadcasting station
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio sta ...
, which was built in 2000. Its
antenna
Antenna ( antennas or antennae) may refer to:
Science and engineering
* Antenna (radio), also known as an aerial, a transducer designed to transmit or receive electromagnetic (e.g., TV or radio) waves
* Antennae Galaxies, the name of two collid ...
uses a 112-metre tall guyed mast, insulated against the ground.
See also
*
List of tallest towers in the world
Several extant building fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and are ''self-supporting' ...
*
List of tallest structures in Bulgaria
An incomplete list of the tallest structures in Bulgaria. This list contains all types of structures.
See also
*List of tallest buildings in Sofia
*List of tallest buildings in Bulgaria
*List of tallest buildings in Europe
*List of tallest bu ...
External links
* http://www.predavatel.com/bg/6/dob.htm
Towers in Bulgaria
Dobrich
Buildings and structures in Dobrich Province
Towers completed in 1979
1979 establishments in Bulgaria
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