| Millennium Transmitter (ABS-CBN Tower) | |
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| ABS-CBN Transmitter Tower.jpg | |
| General information | |
| Type | Communications tower |
| Location | Quezon City, Philippines |
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| Construction started | Mid-1968 |
| Completed | March 21, 1969 |
| Height | |
| Antenna spire | 228.6 m (750 ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Owner | ABS-CBN Corporation |
Millennium Transmitter 750 ft (228.6 m), 346.2 kilowatt ERP transmitter of ABS-CBN Corporation located at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center, Mother Ignacia Street corner Sgt. Esguerra Avenue, Quezon City. It serves as a transmitter facility for both ABS-CBN and Studio 23.
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The Millennium Transmitter formely ABS-CBN Tower was constructed at the corner of Mother Ignacia Street and Sgt. Esguerra Avenue, within the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center Grounds. It began in the 3rd quarter of 1968, the transmitter is located in a vacant lot and lasted for months to completion. On March 21, 1969, the transmitter began transmitting television programs and also used to beam color broadcasts in Metro Manila, and to nearby provinces. After Martial law was declared on September 21, 1972, as ABS-CBN suspended their operations in the following day and at the same time, it was sold to the crony-owned BBC-2 from 1973 to 1979 and GTV/MBS-4 from 1974 to 1986 used to beam channel 2's and channel 4's programs. When the EDSA Revolution happened, both the transmitter and Broadcast Plaza are stormed by the reformist rebels as escalating battle occurred on February 24, 1986. After the revolution, the transmitter was returned to the original owner to re-air channel 2.
Its former height is 650 ft (198.1 m), until the time when ABS-CBN started a major reconstruction and rehabilitation of the whole transmitter, which includes the changing of its previously used cylinder antennas to even more powerful dipole antennas with special reflector[1], and increase of its height which was finished by the 3rd quarter of 2009.[2]
The Millennium Transmitter uses its newly-installed dipole antennas with special reflector for wide coverage of VHF and UHF TV reception in Metro Manila and some nearby provinces in both grades A and B for the broadcasts of DWWX-TV and DWAC-TV where their regional network's signals are weak in some areas by province(Example: southern parts of Bulacan, Cavite, most parts of Laguna and some parts of Rizal).
The transmitter facility houses both DWWX-TV and DWAC-TV that contains sets of transmitter equipment imported by Harris and Jampro of the United States.
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