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Sutro Tower is a 977-foot-tall self-supporting steel structure located near the geographical center of the city of San Francisco, California, used for the transmission of television and FM broadcasting. The tower is shared by eleven television stations, five FM radio stations and several wireless communications systems. Sutro Tower is owned and operated by Sutro Tower Incorporated, an independent corporation founded in 1968 by the owners of KTVU-2, KRON-4, KPIX-5, and KGO-7. The owners of these four stations hold equal shares in Sutro Tower, Incorporated The corporation owns the tower and the service building, but not the broadcast equipment installed there. It leases space on the tower and in the building to the local television and radio stations. Stations transmitting from Sutro Tower are: Television stations KTVU-2, KRON-4, KPIX-5, KGO-7, KQED-9, KOFY-20, KMTP-32, KCNS-38, KBCW-44, KCSM-60 and KFSF-66, and FM stations KNGY 92.7, KOIT 96.5, KSOL 98.9, KKSF 103.7 and KFOG 104.5 MHz. With the transition to digital-only TV transmissions, many changes were made to the antenna configuration on the tower in 2009. New auxiliary antennas for the UHF digital stations were installed just below the waist of the tower in April. After all analog transmissions were discontinued on June 12, a crew began removing all of the antennas used for analog TV, replacing them with new permanent antennas for digital operation.

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