![]() ![]() The movie Fall was based on this radio tower according to the director. The towers also provide quite good 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 (eastern Solano and Contra Costa counties). With their significant height and central location in Walnut Grove, they provide line-of-sight (LOS) signal coverage to the adjacent flat valley terrain for over 60 miles (100 km) to the north ( Sacramento) and to the south-southeast ( Stockton and Modesto). For more than 20 years Earth Networks has operated the world’s largest and most comprehensive weather observation, lightning detection, and climate networks. A vehicle crashed into a building on Friday night in Elk Grove, according to the Cosumnes Fire Department. The antennas on these towers serve broadcast stations airing programming to TV viewers in the Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto DMA (Designated Market Area) in California's Central Valley. In the neighborhood of KXTV/KOVR Tower are two towers of similar height, the Channel 40 and KVIE-TV Channel 6 Tower and the Channel 3-Hearst-Argyle Tower, forming an impressive 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. Omni-directional TV transmitting antennas on the tower carry the over-the-air (OTA) broadcast signals for KXTV-TV channel 10 (virtual and transmit) and KOVR-TV channel 13 (virtual) and 25 (transmit). Radar Video Elk Grove, CA Radar Map Rain Frz Rain Mix Snow Elk Grove, CA Wind Advisory from THU 4:00 PM PST until FRI 4:00 PM PST. ![]() The KXTV/KOVR Tower (also known as the Sacramento Joint Venture Tower) is a 2,049 ft (625 m) guyed communication tower in Walnut Grove, California, United States.īuilt in 2000, it is the tallest structure in California, the third-tallest guyed mast in the world (as of 2001), and the seventh tallest structure to have ever existed if the destroyed Warsaw radio mast, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Shanghai Tower in Shanghai and the Tokyo Sky Tree in Tokyo are included. KXTV/KOVR tower note the Doppler weather radar station to the right. ![]()
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