Diversified Communications Tower is a 2000-foot guyed mast

Radio masts and towers

Radio masts and towers are, typically, tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. They are among the tallest man-made structures...

 for TV transmission in Floyd Dale, South Carolina

Floyd Dale, South Carolina

Floyd Dale is a small unincorporated community in Dillon County, South Carolina, United States. Near Floyd Dale, there is the Diversified Communications Tower, a guyed mast, which is one of the tallest constructions in the world....

, USA. Diversified Communications Tower was built in 1981 and is 609.6 meters high. The tower itself is 585.6 meters; the antenna is 24 meters. It is one of the tallest structures in the United States. The Diversified Communications Tower broadcasts the signals of local ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 affiliate WPDE and CW affiliate WWMB

WWMB

WWMB is CW-affiliated television station for South Carolina's Pee Dee and Grand Strand areas licensed to Florence. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 21 from a transmitter on Pee Dee Church Road in Dillon . The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 8 and...

; the tower is named after WPDE's previous owner.

See also

• WPDE
• Tallest structures in the U.S.
• List of the world's tallest structures

External links

• Skyscraper page entry