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.

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.

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.

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

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.

After years of wrangling, a consortium of Denver broadcasters has won approval from county commissioners to erect a 730-foot tower for DTV transmission on Lookout Mountain.