The WBNS TV Tower is a tall free-standing

lattice tower A lattice tower or truss tower is a freestanding vertical framework tower. This construction is widely used in transmission towers carrying high voltage electric power lines, in radio masts and towers (a self-radiating tower or as a support for a ...

with a triangular cross section used by

WBNS-TV WBNS-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside the company's sole radio properties, WBNS (1460 AM) and WBNS-FM (97.1). The stations share studios on Twi ...

Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and t ...

. When originally completed in August 1948, the tower stood tall making it one of the tallest freestanding towers in the United States at that time. The tower's height was either later increased or a new tower was built in 1955–1956, at which point it became the second tallest lattice tower in the United States after the

WTVR TV Tower The WTVR TV Tower is tall a free-standing lattice tower in Richmond, Virginia. It broadcasts WTVR-FM and has been in operation since 1953. History Upon completion in 1953, the tower became the tallest in the United States and the second tal ...

which had been built two years prior in 1953. The tower remains to this day the tallest free-standing structure in Columbus, Ohio and one of the tallest in the country. In 1981, WBNS-TV and WBNS-FM broadcast were switched over to an even taller guyed candelabra tower located directly adjacent to the WNBS Tower standing in height. WCMH-TV and most of Columbus' FM radio stations also broadcast from the candelabra tower.

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{{Reflist Lattice towers Radio masts and towers in Ohio Towers completed in 1949 Buildings and structures in Columbus, Ohio

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