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What one spot in Rhode Island has the most Radio / TV Towers

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I was just surfing the LA board and see that a major Forest Fire is seriously endangering most of the radio and TV towers in Los Angeles. Here is the tower cam. These arn't all clouds. Much of it is smoke. It will truly be a nightmare if a fire takes out all those towers. http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs/towercam.htm#imagetop

Full story: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE57R3G820090829

So this got me thinking. What one location in Rhode island has most of the TV/Radio towers and how many are there at that location?
 
There's nowhere in the Providence area that has that many towers that close together. Of course, the Providence market has a lot less stations than Los Angeles. The area with the most stations in the the same area would be Rehoboth, where WSBE-DT, WLNE-DT, WJAR-DT are on one tower, WSNE right next to that, WWBB on the old 64 tower, and WNAC-DT and WPRI-DT on what has always been the WPRI tower.
 
The only other "concentration" of any broadcasters in Rhode Island would be Neuatconicut Hill in Johnston, where WWLI and WPRO-FM are located. That would be more signifigant back in the day of WSBE-TV. The site also serves as a microwave hop for 99.7.

There are only really three "signifigant" tower farms on mountain/hilltops in New England are West Peak in Meriden, CT which houses 7 FM stations on 5 towers, Crafts Hill in Hanover, NH (which houses 4 full power FMs, and 3 or 4 translators) and Mount Mansfield in Stowe, VT., which houses all of the markets TV stations and two FM stations (and if things go according to plan, a 3rd). Newton/Needham in Boston is very metro, but has the majority of TV/FM in one area.
 
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