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    KVLY-TV Tower (formerly Tower KTHI-TV) is a television transmitter tower as high as 2.063 feet (629 m) in Blanchard, Traill County, North Dakota, United States, used by KVLY channel 11 to Fargo.

    The tower is located three miles west of Blanchard, North Dakota, half way between Fargo and Grand Forks. Being the highest artificial structure built after August 13, 1963. The tower was defeated height 18 m (57 ft) in 1974 by a radio tower near Konstantynów Warszawa, Poland, which collapsed on August 8, 1991, made the KVLY-TV tower structure of the highest ground. Burj Dubai (under construction) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, planned completion in 2009, has


    exceeded the tower as the tallest land structure. On September 2, 2008, the website for the Burj Dubai project reported that the building reaches a height of 2.257 feet (688 m). However, the Council for High Buildings and Urban Habitat will not be recognized as a high-high Burj Dubai officially until the building is completed.

    The tower was built by Hamilton Directors and Kline Iron and Steel, and require thirty days to complete, at a cost of U.S. $ 500,000.

    Owned by Hoak Media of Dallas, Texas, this tower broadcasting at 316 kW for television station KVLY (channel 11, an NBC affiliate) is based in Fargo. The tower provides broadcasting area 30,000 square miles (78.000 km ²) or 79-mile radius around.

    The height above sea level is 3038 feet (926 m). Some time after completion, the FCC and FAA issued a policy stating, "Although there is no fixed height limit for antenna towers, the two sides have set a rebuttable presumption against structures with a height of 2,000 feet above the ground."  The FCC and the FAA may approve higher structures if there are exceptions. "
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