KOBR-TV Tower (also called KSWS-TV Tower) is a 490.7 meter (1,610 ft) high guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM radio and television programs in Caprock, New Mexico, USA. KOBR-TV Tower was built in 1960. The original KSWS-TV Tower was built in December 1956 and was the same height at 1610 ft. It was the world's tallest structure until the completion of WGME-TV Tower in Maine in September 1959. In 1960, the original tower fell in a gale.
Coordinates: 33°22′31.3″N 103°46′14.3″W / 33.375361°N 103.770639°W / 33.375361; -103.770639
Famous quotes containing the word tower:
“Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)