The WKRQ Tower is a 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 ...

with triangular cross section used by

WKRQ WKRQ (101.9 MHz, "Q102") is a radio station located in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. The station is licensed to Cincinnati and broadcasts from the WKRQ Tower. It airs an adult-leaning Top 40 (CHR) format and is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting. It ...

and

WKRC-TV WKRC-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to MyNetworkTV affiliate WSTR-TV (channel 64) under a lo ...

as well as several other radio stations located in

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

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. The tower was built in the early 1960s a period when numerous tall free standing steel lattice towers were being built across the United States including the

WCPO TV Tower The WCPO TV Tower is a free-standing lattice tower with triangular cross section located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and used by WCPO-TV, WEBN, WUBE-FM, WVXU, WBQC-LD, and previously WOTH-CD. Built in 1965 it is the oldest of the Cincinnati's large free ...

, the Turner Broadcasting Tower, the

WHDH-TV Tower The WHDH-TV tower is a free-standing lattice tower with a triangular cross section located in the Newton Upper Falls section of Newton, Massachusetts. It built in 1960 by RKO General and is currently owned by Sunbeam Television, which uses it to t ...

and the

WITI TV Tower The WITI TV Tower is a lattice communications tower located in Shorewood, Wisconsin, which transmits the signal of several television and radio stations in the Milwaukee area, including its namesake, Fox owned-and-operated station WITI (chann ...

. The tower stands tall and WKRC's nickname in the 1960s was "Tall 12", a reference to the station's tower which is the tallest in Cincinnati. The WKRQ Tower remains the tallest freestanding structure in Cincinnati to this day and one of four that rise above 900 feet in the city.

Stations

Radio

FM stations that transmit from the WKRQ Tower include the following:http://worldradiomap.com/us-oh/cincinnati

Television

TV stations that transmit from WKRQ Tower include the following:

References

{{Reflist Lattice towers Towers completed in the 1960s Radio masts and towers in Ohio Buildings and structures in Cincinnati

Stations

Radio

Television

See also

References