Venets Transmitter (Bulgarian: РРТС Венец) is a facility for FM and TV-broadcasting near Venets and

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, Bulgaria. Venets Transmitter uses as antenna tower a 302 metre tall guyed lattice steel mast with rectangular cross section. This mast, which was built in 1975, is the tallest

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in Bulgaria. The TV transmitter, which used it as antenna, was the most powerful TV transmitter in Bulgaria with 50 kW. It broadcast the program of BNT 1 on channel 5 and could be received in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. In 2008 due to interference with foreign FM radio stations the transmitter was shut down and broadcasting of BNT 1 was switched to channel 56 on a new

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transmitter. The analogue transmitters were shut down on September 30, 2015, when simulcast period ended and Bulgaria switched to

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. Beside this, Venets is used for FM-broadcasting with three 10 kW

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in the OIRT-band on frequency 69,80 MHz. The current transmission frequencies are:

External links

* http://predavatel.com/bg/6/shu.htm#venets * * http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b46687 Towers in Bulgaria Radio masts and towers in Europe Towers completed in 1975 Buildings and structures in Shumen Province 1975 establishments in Bulgaria {{Europe-mast-stub