WSB-TV tower, Broadcasting tower in Old Fourth Ward, Atlanta, United States.
The WSB-TV tower is a broadcasting mast in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It has a triangular steel lattice structure and spans Freedom Parkway so that traffic passes directly beneath it.
The WSB-TV tower was completed in 1950 as a guyed mast for Atlanta's WSB-TV, then broadcasting on VHF analog channel 2. At completion it was the tallest guyed mast tower in the United States. In June 2009 the DTV transition ended analog broadcasting; the larger VHF antenna was removed from the top and the smaller UHF antenna moved into its place, slightly improving broadcast range through the added height.
The tower belongs to WSB-TV, the oldest television station in Atlanta, which has been on the air since the early 1950s. Visitors walking through Historic Fourth Ward Park can look up and see the steel lattice still in active use as a broadcast antenna today.
The tower is easy to see from the paths in Historic Fourth Ward Park, where you can take in its full height without obstruction. Drivers on Freedom Parkway get a different angle as the road passes directly under the steel frame.
One of the tower's three sets of guy wires crosses over Freedom Parkway, which was built beneath the tower system in the 1990s. At that spot the roadway is covered by a sturdy bridge-like structure that shields traffic from falling ice during and after freezing rain in winter.
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