Turner Broadcasting tower

Turner Broadcasting tower
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Steel lattice television tower
Location	Atlanta, Georgia
Coordinates	33°46′57″N 84°23′19″W / 33.7825°N 84.388611°W / 33.7825; -84.388611
Completed	1967
Destroyed	2010
Height	314.3 m (1,031 ft)

The Turner Broadcasting tower was a 314.3-meter (1,031 ft)^[1] free-standing lattice tower in Atlanta, Georgia. It was located next to the Downtown Connector between Spring, West Peachtree, 10th and 12th Streets in Midtown. The tower had a triangular cross-section and was built on the site of a previous four-sided broadcast tower built for WAGA-TV 5 and to serve WJRJ-TV which was founded by Rice Broadcasting Inc. which was owned by a local Atlanta entrepreneur, Jack M. Rice, Jr. It is the tallest freestanding structure to ever be voluntarily removed in the United States and third tallest in the world.

Turner Broadcast Tower in the Midtown skyline