I want to make a major correction to this video. That guy isn't tasked with taking down that tower. He's tasked with calling someone else to take down the tower. In the world we live in now, with so many more desk jobs, don't confuse people who work with people who sit at a desk and call people to work. Huge difference. Remember that.
Used to live in OKC as a little boy. We would go out and watch lightning strike the tower when the weather was bad. A wonder a tornado didn't blow it away. BTW later moved to west Texas for the oilfield, and listened to KOMA (along with Wolf Man Jack on XERF acuna mexico) all over west Texas. Those were the days of the BIG SIGNAL radio and TV stations.
I can remember reading an excerpt of a book from wolfman jack. When he was down in Mexico he worked a "flamethrower " station. Very high wattage unregulated. He told of birds flying too close and literally explode from the radiation
It was such a strange experience to build them in foggy conditions. You would start out at the ground wet, cold and foggy, then as you rode the line, or climbed the steel, you would break through into sunshine, but you couldn't see the ground... It was a wierd feeling.
They probably wanted to build another runway in town. I wish they could have found some use for it, either broadcast radio, PTZ weather cameras, or even imagine the scientific data studying pollution at multiple atmospheric height.
Could have been a massive digital signal. But getting the digital antenna up there, wow. Getting near end. CDI would have made a good show , blow up real good.
second question: how long are the orange / white segments? you can see this from the ground quite often, so they must be long/ 500 feet orange, then 500 feet white?
Must've done this in the last 12 years. I do recall the tallest tower I ever saw in NE OK City, near I-35, certainly 12 years ago. I thought something looked missing the last year or so driving through there.
@@matthew-dv8gv thats right but sad, they collapse in 1991, the tallest structure in polant after this, is a radio tower too, 357 meters and in czech is liblice 355 meters.
So what tower do they broadcast the digital carrier on now? All the 1500ft towers by me were just switched to digital, theres actually a massive tower a few miles from me I think its actually taller than that one was.
Because they moved to an even taller tower. Perhaps they didn't want to take their chances on something that is made of a material that can rust and is old enough to collect Social Security. Before DTV, only one Detroit station (the ABC affiliate) had a perfect picture under normal conditions. Now all full-power stations are snow-free. (One is 52 miles distant, the others, 50 miles. There is another station that is 63 miles distant on a short tower that usually does not come in). W4CSC: I worked you on phone, 20m, I think, late 1980s.
It was a liability. Ice would form on it in bad weather and come crashing down onto the TV station and parking lots near by as it thawed (really big chunks of ice). Also, if the tower would have fallen (ice, tornado, wind), it could have fallen onto the station that sits next to it. I worked there for many years and am still with the company in Tulsa. That tower was right outside my office window - I watched them take it down for months. It was very cool to see.
@@markwilliams4525 Wasn't the only reason, but definitely a benefit to remove it and eliminate the risk. I've been employed with the company for 20 years.
Well if it stood all that time then it must have been built right in the first place. Worth the money at that time for sure.
I want to make a major correction to this video. That guy isn't tasked with taking down that tower. He's tasked with calling someone else to take down the tower. In the world we live in now, with so many more desk jobs, don't confuse people who work with people who sit at a desk and call people to work. Huge difference. Remember that.
Used to live in OKC as a little boy. We would go out and watch lightning strike the tower when the weather was bad. A wonder a tornado didn't blow it away. BTW later moved to west Texas for the oilfield, and listened to KOMA (along with Wolf Man Jack on XERF acuna mexico) all over west Texas. Those were the days of the BIG SIGNAL radio and TV stations.
I can remember reading an excerpt of a book from wolfman jack. When he was down in Mexico he worked a "flamethrower " station. Very high wattage unregulated. He told of birds flying too close and literally explode from the radiation
Were not KOMA"s Broadcast towers on SW 59th St just west of Moore? clean the other end of of OKC?
It was such a strange experience to build them in foggy conditions.
You would start out at the ground wet, cold and foggy, then as you rode the line, or climbed the steel, you would break through into sunshine, but you couldn't see the ground...
It was a wierd feeling.
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Can’t believe she rode it all the way up and danced on top of it. That took some ballls for her to do that
R.I.P KWTV TOWER
R.I.P KWTV TOWER
Sad. I like to see them go up- not come down. :-(
They probably wanted to build another runway in town. I wish they could have found some use for it, either broadcast radio, PTZ weather cameras, or even imagine the scientific data studying pollution at multiple atmospheric height.
That was built the same year I was born.
Every once and a while the signal made its way to
Fort hood Killeen tx. On fall skip..god bless ch 9. Tkx
Could have been a massive digital signal. But getting the digital antenna up there, wow. Getting near end. CDI would have made a good show , blow up real good.
second question: how long are the orange / white segments? you can see this from the ground quite often, so they must be long/ 500 feet orange, then 500 feet white?
I really don't think it needed to come down. That was one of the most robust towers ever built. It would've lasted another 200 years. Sad.
I'm surprised they didn't keep the tower and swap out the old analog broadcast equipment it had with digital.
Must've done this in the last 12 years. I do recall the tallest tower I ever saw in NE OK City, near I-35, certainly 12 years ago. I thought something looked missing the last year or so driving through there.
In 1960 it lost it's title as worlds largest structure by KFVS in Cape Girardeau MO at 1700 ft
Yes and in 1963, build the KVLY tv tower. 2063 ft tall.
@@borntoclimb7116 In 1974 they built the Warsaw Radio Mast which became the tallest man-made structure of its time.
@@matthew-dv8gv thats right but sad, they collapse in 1991, the tallest structure in polant after this, is a radio tower too, 357 meters and in czech is liblice 355 meters.
So what tower do they broadcast the digital carrier on now? All the 1500ft towers by me were just switched to digital, theres actually a massive tower a few miles from me I think its actually taller than that one was.
Why would they take a huge tower like that down for? Wouldn't it still provide superior coverage? If it aint broke why fix it.
Because they moved to an even taller tower.
Perhaps they didn't want to take their chances on something that is made of a material that can rust and is old enough to collect Social Security.
Before DTV, only one Detroit station (the ABC affiliate) had a perfect picture under normal conditions. Now all full-power stations are snow-free.
(One is 52 miles distant, the others, 50 miles. There is another station that is 63 miles distant on a short tower that usually does not come in).
W4CSC: I worked you on phone, 20m, I think, late 1980s.
@Frank Roberts *besides Trump
It was a liability. Ice would form on it in bad weather and come crashing down onto the TV station and parking lots near by as it thawed (really big chunks of ice). Also, if the tower would have fallen (ice, tornado, wind), it could have fallen onto the station that sits next to it. I worked there for many years and am still with the company in Tulsa. That tower was right outside my office window - I watched them take it down for months. It was very cool to see.
@@chadwoolbright8118 they didn't take it down because it was a liability
@@markwilliams4525 Wasn't the only reason, but definitely a benefit to remove it and eliminate the risk. I've been employed with the company for 20 years.
Hey...I’ll take the lights from it or maybe get rather from what y’all said just to help get it off your hands, if y’all want?😦🤔
Did we all see a elevator in it?????
So why did they take it down? New tower? You'd think it could be repurposed for radio, cellular, microwave...
It wasn't needed anymore. She was redundant.
schade
Why take the tower down?!?!
probably costly to maintain given it wasnt in use anymore
Another victim of technology.
Did OTA go away?
Why not do a coaster that high ?
Insurance would be astronomically priced for the amusement park.
They need to build a roller coaster that in 10 miles high and people would love to ride it.