The WLWT TV Tower is a free-standing

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with triangular cross section used by

WLWT WLWT (channel 5) is a television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Hearst Television. The station's studios are located on Young Street, and its transmitter is located on Chickasaw Street, both in the ...

located in

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. Built in 1978, it replaced the original 570-foot tall WLWT tower built in 1948 at the same site on Chickasaw Street, in the Mount Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati. The new tower stands tall, one of four that rise above 900 feet in the city and is among the tallest

s in the world.

Stations

Television

TV stations that transmit from WLWT TV Tower include the following:

References

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Stations

Television

See also

References