Japan TV networks to build tallest tower

TOKYO - Japan's major broadcast networks are in the final stages of choosing a location in the capital to build the tallest tower in the world, a Japanese newspaper reported Tuesday. The tower, estimated at 1,980 feet, will cost about 50 billion yen (US$420.17 million), the national Yomiuri newspaper said. It is scheduled for completion in 2011. Officials from Japan's public broadcaster NHK and five Tokyo-based commercial broadcasting companies are involved in the project. Kinji Terada, a spokesman of NHK, said officials are now "in a final stage of coordination" in the selection of a location for the tower in Tokyo's old entertainment area in Sumida ward. The tallest structure in the world is now the CN Tower in Toronto, which rises 1,815 feet, largely because of a huge antenna. -AP