The WSB-TV tower is a

guyed mast A guyed mast or guyed tower is a tall thin vertical structure that depends on guy lines (diagonal tensioned cables attached to the ground) for stability. The mast itself has the compressive strength to support its own weight, but does not ha ...

broadcast tower in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of

Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,7 ...

, immediately adjacent to

Freedom Parkway Freedom Park is one of the largest city parks in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The park forms a cross shape with the axes crossing at the Carter Center. The park stretches west-east from Parkway Drive, just west of Boulevard, to the intersecti ...

and the

Historic Fourth Ward Park Historic Fourth Ward Park is a park built on the site of the old Ponce de Leon amusement park, in the Old Fourth Ward of Atlanta, just south of Ponce City Market and just west of the BeltLine Eastside Trail. Currently the park covers in two sepa ...

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. The tower was built in 1950, and at its completion was the tallest guyed mast tower in the

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. It has a triangular

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. This tower is so close to Freedom Parkway that one of its three sets of

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s goes over the road, which was built under the tower system in the 1990s. To protect against falling

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during and after

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in winter, the roadway is covered with a sturdy

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-like structure at this point.

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The

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lists the following FM and televisionTV
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WSB-TV WSB-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is the flagship television property of locally based Cox Media Group, which has owned the station since its inception, and is sister to ...

32 ( 2.''x'') Atlanta, and formerly VHF analog channel 2, owned and operated by

Cox Media Group CMG Media Corporation ( doing business as Cox Media Group) is an American media conglomerate principally owned by Apollo Global Management in conjunction with Cox Enterprises, which maintains a 29% minority stake in the company. The company pri ...

W296BB WLKQ-FM (102.3 MHz "La Raza 102.3/107.1") is a commercial radio station licensed to Buford, Georgia, and serving Metro Atlanta. It is owned by Davis Broadcasting and airs a Regional Mexican radio format. The programming is simulcast on 107.1 WT ...

FM 107.1 " Jonesboro", a

broadcast translator A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or tran ...

officially assigned to retransmit WSB-FM HD3 as a legal fiction to allow it to simulcast

WTSH-FM WTSH-FM 107.1, branded as La Raza 102.3/107.1, is an FM radio station in northwest Georgia, and reaching into northwest metro Atlanta, Georgia. Originally assigned to Rockmart, its city of license is now Aragon, west-northwest of Atlanta, and ea ...

107.1 (also operated by Cox Radio) further east and southeast than it would otherwise be allowed During the 2000s, the WSB-TV tower carried both the

analog TV Analog television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio. In an analog television broadcast, the brightness, colors and sound are represented by amplitude, phase and frequency of an analog s ...

signal on VHF channel 2 (54 to 60 MHz) and the current

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signal on UHF (620 to 626 MHz). Following the DTV transition in the United States, which forced analog

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s off-air in June 2009, the old antenna (larger due to the longer

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of lower carrier frequencies) was removed from the top, and the smaller UHF antenna moved in its place, improving its

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slightly, due to the increase in

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ASR Registration 1031790
{{Old Fourth Ward Towers in Georgia (U.S. state) Towers completed in 1957 Cox Media Group Old Fourth Ward

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