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Kleve transmitter is a facility for FM and TV transmission (until 1993 also
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Kleve Kleve (; traditional en, Cleves ; nl, Kleef; french: Clèves; es, Cléveris; la, Clivia; Low Rhenish: ''Kleff'') is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine. From the 11th century ...
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North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhab ...
, Germany. The Kleve transmitter was founded in 1953. Since 1994, the transmitter uses as a
transmission tower A transmission tower, also known as an electricity pylon or simply a pylon in British English and as a hydro tower in Canadian English, is a tall structure, usually a steel lattice tower, used to support an overhead power line. In electrical ...
a high guyed steel tube mast. The mast is guyed at above ground. This mast replaced the old radio mast from the 1960s which was also used for transmissions in the medium wave range until 1993.


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* {{Authority control Radio masts and towers in Germany 1953 establishments in West Germany Towers completed in 1953 Buildings and structures in Kleve (district)