KXTV/KOVR tower
The KXTV/KOVR Tower is a communications tower in Walnut Grove, California, United States.
Built in 2000, it is the tallest structure in California, second-tallest structure in the United States, second-tallest guyed mast in the world, and the eighth-tallest structure to have ever existed.
Omnidirectional antennas on the tower broadcast the over-the-air television signal for KXTV-TV channel 10 and KOVR-TV channel 13 and 25. The geographical coordinates for the site, a low-lying rural area about south-southwest of Sacramento and north-northwest of Stockton, are.
Th KXTV/KOVR Tower, the Channel 40 and KVIE-TV Channel 6 Tower, and the Channel 3-Hearst-Argyle Tower form an antenna farm on the east side of the Sacramento River and west of the Interstate 5 freeway which can be easily seen for miles around in every direction.
The towers provide OTA service to viewers in the Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto designated market area in California's Central Valley.
With their significant height and central location in Walnut Grove, they provide line-of-sight signal coverage to the adjacent flat valley terrain for over to the north and to the south-southeast. The towers also provide coverage across the valley to the east into the Sierra Nevada foothills and mountains, and to the west to portions of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area.
The decommissioned television tower central to the movie Fall was based on this radio tower, according to director Scott Mann.
Current tenants
- KOVR Ch. 13
- KOVR Ch. 25
- KMAX Ch. 21
- KXTV Ch. 10
- KXTV Ch. 10
- KTFK Ch. 26