National Transmitter

The National Transmitter is a 228.6 m (750 ft) high communications tower of FBN located at the FBN Delta Studios, Diliman, Quezon City. It serves as a platform for television transmission antennas for both FBN 9 and FBN Sports TV.

History
The National Transmitter also called FBN Tower was constructed at the Diliman, Quezon City, within the FBN Delta Studios. Construction began in 1990. In 1992, the tower became operational, transmitting television for FBN and also used to beam color broadcasts in Metro Manila, and to nearby provinces.

Its former height is 213.36 m (700 ft), until the time when FBN started a major reconstruction and rehabilitation of the whole tower, which includes the changing of its previously used cylinder antennas to even more powerful dipole antennas with reflector, and increase of its height which was finished by the early-2017.

The Tower
The National Transmitter uses its newly installed dipole antennas with reflector, and UHF panel antennas for wide coverage of Analog (VHF and UHF TV) and Digital (ISDB-T) TV reception in Metro Manila some nearby provinces in both grades A and B, for the broadcasts of DZKB-TV and DZRB-TV respectively. Despite the name, the National Transmitter is not a transmitter, rather a communications tower with antennas which are connected to multiple transmitters.

The Transmitter Facility
The transmitter facility houses both DZKB-TV and DZRB-TV that contains sets of transmitter equipment using PALAPA C2.