Sutro Tower (San Francisco, California)

USA / California / San Francisco / San Francisco, California / La Avanzada Street, One
 television / radio transmission tower, interesting place
www.sutrotower.org/

City-wide-visible and iconic 977 foot broadcast tower on the top of Mount Sutro. Home of the broadcast transmitters for many Bay Area Television and Radio Stations.

This was the site of the three-story La Avanzada Mansion, built by Adolf G. Sutro (grandson of the San Francisco mayor) in the early 1930s and where he lived with his mother until 1948. In 1948 Sutro sold the land to a television broadcasting company and the mansion served a broadcast equipment facility until 1969, when it was boarded up. Shortly thereafter, it was torn down to make way for the modern broadcasting tower you see here today.

The tower is a wonderful sight that can be seen from miles around the city. It provides a very important service to the bay area. The tower will be part of the San Francisco skyline for decades to come.

KTVU www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KTVU
KRON www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KRON-TV
KPIX www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KPIX-TV
KGO www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KGO
KQED www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KQED
KOFY www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KOFY
KMTP www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KMTP
KCNS www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KCNS
KBCW www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KBCW
KCSM www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KCSM
KFSF www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KFSF
KREV www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=KREV
KOIT www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=KOIT
KSOL www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=KSOL
KOSF www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=KOSF
KFOG www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=KFOG

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutro_Tower
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Coordinates:   37°45'18"N   122°27'10"W

Comments

  • thank you! finally sensible, respectful commentary about Sutro Tower! It's a magnificent view from the east bay when the only thing visible on the fog shrouded peninsula is the reassuring presence of the red and white tower. It's so trendy to be a sutro tower hater, or anything new or iconic in San Francisco(a "progressive city")...especially from people who are transplants from other places. the same people who think of san francisco as a twee postcard of rows of victorians...as if it were embalmed or a simulacrum of a place that never was. Go to Disneyland or buy a Thomas Kinkade painting!
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