WOR TV Tower

WOR TV Tower
The tower c. 1954
General information
Location	North Bergen, New Jersey
Coordinates	40.797859°N 74.009528°W / 40.797859; -74.009528
Year(s) built	1949
Demolished	November 15, 1956 [1]

The WOR TV Tower was a 760-foot-tall (230-meter) lattice tower used for FM- and TV-broadcasting by WOR-FM and WOR-TV at North Bergen, New Jersey, USA. The 420-ton tower was built in 1949. At the time of its construction, it was the tenth-tallest man-made structure in the world.[2] At the beginning of 1953, FM transmissions were stopped and TV transmissions were moved to the Empire State Building, but the tower remained standing. On November 8, 1956, the top of the tower was hit by a Beechcraft Model 18, which knocked off the tower's top; the plane subsequently crashed and killed four people.[3] The tower was dismantled shortly afterwards.[1]

See also

• List of tallest buildings in North Hudson
• List of towers
• List of famous transmission sites

References

1. "North Bergen's TV Tower Just a Heap of Memories". The Jersey Journal. Jersey City, New Jersey. November 16, 1956.
2. WOR-TV and FM Transmitter in North Bergen, NJ Archived 2011-04-15 at the Wayback Machine, accessed November 20, 2006
3. "Accident Beechcraft D18S N80374, Thursday 8 November 1956". asn.flightsafety.org. Retrieved January 5, 2025.

External links

• WOR-TV North Bergen Transmitter Archived 2010-11-21 at the Wayback Machine
• WOR-TV and FM Transmitter in North Bergen, NJ Archived 2011-04-15 at the Wayback Machine
• The New Yorker June 6, 1949 p.14