We are just weeks away from having News Channel 7’s new tower on Hogback Mountain beaming our signal.

Edgar Woodfin, the station’s Engineering/Transmitter Supervisor, tells me the new tower hopefully should be transmitting by September 15th.  General Manager Phil Lane told station employees at a staff meeting today that the target date remains September 1st.

The construction consists of a primary tower that will hold News Channel 7’s new main and new back-up antennas.

The tower will be 459 feet high, same as the old one, but designed stronger.

News Channel 7 has restored its analog and digital signal.