It took an act of Congress but the long-delayed consolidated DTV tower on Lookout Mountain at the western edge of metropolitan Denver is finally built and in use.

KUSA-TV reported on its Web site this week that the new DTV tower on Lookout Mountain west of Denver has been finished and is now nearing operational status.

In a move that raised the hackles of local opponents to the proposed consolidated DTV tower on Lookout Mountain at the western edge of metropolitan Denver, the U.S. Congress last month passed a bill introduced by Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) to take away from all local government units in Jefferson County the right to decide if the tower will be built.

The president has signed into law a bill co-sponsored by both of Colorado’s U.S. senators that closed the book on opposition to a new shared DTV tower outside Denver.

After a battle lasting almost a decade, Jefferson County Judge Brooke Jackson approved the board of county commissioners' approval of the Lookout Mountain TV tower under construction by TV broadcasters' Lake Cedar Group.

Rocky Mountain News reported that a 13-hour public hearing with the Jefferson County Commissioners Tuesday on a proposed TV tower for Lookout Mountain failed to produce a decision on the fate of the tower. The article by Owen S. Good, 780 minutes of hearings on 730-foot TV tower , said hundreds signed a list opposin

A bill passed by Congress could clear the way for Lake Cedar Group to construct a DTV broadcast tower for Denver Channels 4 (KCNC, CBS), 7 (KMGH, ABC), 9 (KUSA, NBC) and 20 (KTVD, MyTV). As readers of RF Report know, Lake Cedar Group has struggled to overcome opposition from the town of Golden and residents who live ne