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Turner Broadcasting tower

Turner Broadcasting tower is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Turner Broadcasting tower rather than just read about it. In short: The Turner Broadcasting tower was a 314.3-meter (1,031 ft) free-standing lattice tower in Atlanta, Georgia. It was located next to the Downtown Connector between Spring, West Peachtree, 10th and 12th Streets in Midtown.

Key takeaways

Turner Broadcasting tower belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Turner Broadcasting tower to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Turner Broadcasting tower from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Turner Broadcasting tower was a 314.3-meter (1,031 ft) free-standing lattice tower in Atlanta, Georgia. It was located next to the Downtown Connector between Spring, West Peachtree, 10th and 12th Streets in Midtown. The tower had a triangular cross-section and was built on the site of a previous four-sided broadcast tower built for WAGA-TV 5 and to serve WJRJ-TV which was founded by Rice Broadcasting Inc. which was owned by a local Atlanta entrepreneur, Jack M. Rice, Jr. It was the tallest freestanding structure to ever be voluntarily removed in the United States until the demolition of the tallest Chimney at the Homer City Generating Station in 2025.

History At the time of its completion it was one of the ten tallest freestanding structure in the world behind only the Ostankino Tower, Empire State Building, Tokyo Tower, WITI TV Tower, Eiffel Tower, WHDH-TV tower, Chrysler Building and the KCTV Broadcast Tower. The construction of tower was financed by GE, which also provided the original channel 17 transmitter. The tower was completed in 1967 and the first broadcast from the tower came on September 1, 1967, under the WJRJ-TV call letters, operating on UHF channel 17. The towers height gave Channel 17 a strong signal boost which greatly helped UHF broadcasts as this era featured low-sensitivity tuners and lousy antennas. In July 1969, Rice Broadcasting reached an agreement to merge with the Turner Communications Corporation and the tower was formally named the Turner Broadcasting tower thereafter. Although the tower was owned by Turner Broadcasting System parent Time Warner, it was on a land lease from Comcast, a competing cable TV company. This is the result of WAGA having been owned by Storer Broadcasting, while Storer Cable went through a series of acquisitions that found it folded into Comcast. Storer leased the land to WJRJ, which later became WTCG when purchased by Ted Turner, and was best known as "superstation" WTBS (now TBS on cable/satellite and Peachtree TV over-the-air). Turner later sold his TV networks (including CNN, TBS, and others) and the TV station to Time Warner.

Dismantling The tower was disassembled in late 2010, with analog WPCH-TV 17 having been discontinued by, and tenants WNNX FM 100.5 and WWWQ FM 99.7 moving their auxiliary/backup facilities elsewhere. The lease apparently was on the condition that the tower be removed when it would no longer be used for broadcasting, a condition which was finally triggered by the mandated shutdown of analog TV law in June 2009. The digital TV transmission for WPCH-TV 20 (17.1) is now from the North Druid Hills site, along with several other local FM and TV stations, including WWWQ FM 99.7. WNNX FM 100.5 is now back at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, where it was first located after being moved-in from Alabama as WWWQ FM 100.5, before briefly moving to the Turner tower and back again. The Turner Broadcasting tower remains one of the tallest towers of any type to be demolished and one of the tallest freestanding structures to ever be voluntarily removed in the USA.

See also Lattice tower List of tallest freestanding structures List of tallest demolished freestanding structures List of tallest freestanding steel structures

References

External links Emporis.com TBS, Atlanta, 2009 Antenna Structure Registration - Registration 1043722 "TBS tower rich in memories, history — and a few notable tales", Bill Tush, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 23, 2010

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Turner Broadcasting tower

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Turner Broadcasting tower claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Turner Broadcasting tower before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Turner Broadcasting tower ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Turner Broadcasting tower

In research: Turner Broadcasting tower appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Turner Broadcasting tower in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Turner Broadcasting tower is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 1967, Buildings and structures demolished in 2010, Demolished buildings and structures in Atlanta, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Turner Broadcasting tower outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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