Sharp's Ridge

[1][2] The highest ground point on the ridge is an abandoned fire tower located at 1,391 feet (424 m) above mean sea level.

The southern fringes of the Inskip and Fountain City suburbs, Christenberry Heights, and Beverly are located along the northern base of the ridge.

The Lonsdale, Lincoln Park, and Whittle Springs neighborhoods of North Knoxville are located along the ridge's southern base.

[5] The park's location on a prominent ridgetop oriented parallel to the flight path of migrating birds makes it a top birdwatching destination in springtime.

The fifth tallest tower, the "South Central Communications Tower Knoxville," is 1,017 feet (310 m), and is owned by South Central Communications, licensee of low power TV station WEZK-LP, Channel 28.

That is the tower that WBIR-TV formerly broadcast its analog signal from, also with a "batwing" array on its antenna at the top.

Various other entities, including city, county, and state government agencies, and cellular telephone companies, also transmit base-to-mobile communications from towers on Sharp's Ridge far shorter than the ones listed above.

The Sharp's Ridge collection of broadcast towers, commonly referred to as an "antenna farm" is a good example of radio and TV stations, co-locating their broadcast towers near each other on the highest point near their FCC city of license.

The nearest "antenna farms" to Sharp's Ridge are on Holston Mountain in upper East Tennessee, home to most of the FM and TV stations in the Tri-Cities (Bristol, Virginia-Kingsport, Tennessee-Johnson City, Tennessee) Designated Market Area (DMA), and the Signal Mountain broadcast antenna farm, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, home to most of the FM and TV station antennas in that DMA.

Although most radio and TV stations are in fierce competition with each other in their broadcast markets, they will often locate their broadcasting antennas very near each other, and in some cases, will even share land or towers with each other, in the interests of space, land availability, and the cost of putting a transmission building on top of a mountain.

The stations on the former World Trade Center Tower One were forced to go back to their old home, the 200-foot lower Empire State Building.

When the new Freedom Tower was built, all radio and television transmitting facilities moved to the top of that building, where they are today.