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 tower was built in 1950 and was the tallest broadcasting structure in the United States at the time of its completion. It went up just as television was spreading across the country and Atlanta was growing into a major media hub.
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.
The tower is built to span an active urban road, which is very rare for a broadcasting structure of this type in the United States. This layout came about because the site sat between a busy street and the adjacent land, leaving no other practical option.
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