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Walking around the TOP of the Arqiva Emley Moor TV mast - Duration: 3:12. The collapse left sections of twisted mast strewn over the transmitter site and across the junction of Common Lane and Jagger Lane and the surrounding fields. Wreckage of the Emley Moor Mast, which collapsed in March 1969, strewn across fields. Emley Moor has been used as a transmission site since the earliest days of TV transmission. The 1,265ft mast was erected in 1956 to allow TV broadcasts across Yorkshire. Pictures are by late Skelmanthorpe photographer Reg Stone. Go over Brian Glendenning was the senior engineer on duty on 19 March 1969 when the mast crashed to the ground at just after 17:00. Emley Moor Television Mast - Challenge Cup 3rd Round draw with ex referee Billy Thompson and current referee Richard Siverwood. Barrie Stephenson, a BBC engineer called to the scene, said he was surprised no-one was injured. ), transpose it the Emley Moor channel and point a directional aerial at the revive antenna on Belmont. Rising out of the rubble of the TV mast that collapsed at Emley Moor, is a new 200 ft temporary mast, pictured on March 23, 1969. Pictured are some of the riggers who have been responsible for building this new mast. It was replaced in 1971 by the concrete structure which still stands today. The population living within the transmission area is, according to the Authority, about 6 million. What does the world want from Joe Biden? Pic by Huddersfield Video Club member David Whitworth. VideoFour-year-old's viral dinosaur song made into book, Why a teacher was killed 'execution-style' in Ethiopia, End to Gibraltar land border prompts joy and trepidation. The moon over Emley Moor mast from Roydhouse, Shelley. Wreckage of the Emley Moor Mast, which collapsed in March 1969, strewn across fields. KWTV Brings Down Historic Broadcast Tower - Duration: 11:25. A spokesman for communications infrastructure company Arqiva said the … Nothing to do with future channels, if fact the tower is highly restrictive, look at any other steel mast and it's equipped from head to toe with services, broadcast and non broadcast. 18th March 1969. 3:12. 02/03/2016 . The lunchtime edition of Look North provided a short preview of the full report coming up in the evening edition, and promised footage that has never before been broadcast.. Despite falling across a road and causing damage to a chapel and the transmitter building nobody was hurt. Until 1974, this was primarily the historic county of Yorkshire and parts of neighbouring counties served by the Emley Moor and Bilsdale transmitting station transmitters. The duty engineer wrote in the station's log book: Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham some of the highest coronavirus death rates in the UK. 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