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Tokyo Skytree (東京スカイツリー) is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010 and reached its full height of 634.0 metres (2,080 ft) in March 2011, making it the tallest tower in the world, displacing the Canton Tower, and the second tallest structure in the world after the Burj Khalifa (829.8 m/2,722 ft).
The tower is the primary television and radio broadcast site for the Kantō region; the older Tokyo Tower no longer gives complete digital terrestrial television broadcasting coverage because it is surrounded by high-rise buildings. Skytree was completed on 29 February 2012, with the tower opening to the public on 22 May 2012. The tower is the centrepiece of a large commercial development funded by Tobu Railway and a group of six terrestrial broadcasters headed by NHK. Trains stop at the adjacent Tokyo Skytree Station and nearby Oshiage Station, the complex is 7 km (4.3 mi) north-east of Tokyo Station.
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Photograph taken by
Jos van der Heiden (2015)
A better lit capture of the clock at the top of BBC Broadcasting House opened in 1932. Looking at this again the top section of the building looks reminiscent of one of the wireless sets you might have been able to buy in the 1930's or 1940's (wireless is the name given to radio sets in the UK from the 1920's to 1950's).
Michael Arthur (Ed Palen Memorial Award), Samantha Seeley (John Stewart Memorial Award), Lucas Clevenger (James "Jay" Oller Memorial Award), and Radio Broadcasting Program Coordinator Mike Lemons.
The 2018 Honors Banquet celebrated Lewis and Clark Community College's best and brightest April 27, 2018, in The Commons. Photos by Laura Inlow, Media Services
In this data visualisation work the unseen landscape where broadcasting happens – the electromagnetic spectrum – is brought to life. Artists Jose Luis de Vincente & Irma Vila worked in collaboration with Bestiario, the Barcelona-based creators who specialise in making intangible things such as networks and relationships more visible to us all.
The radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum is something that cannot normally be seen with the naked eye. This work shows the structure and topology of the spectrum and reveals what kinds of activities happen there, from television and radio, to mobile telephony and wireless internet. Atlas of Electromagnetic Space also showed the assignation of frequencies to different communication protocols, and the cultural, social and artistic interventions that are currently taking place in the spectrum.
Displayed on several large plasma screens located in the central foyer of Middlesbrough’s Institute for Digital Innovation, this installation enabled visitors to interact with the electromagnetic spectrum, and learn more about it.
Biography
José Luis de Vicente is a cultural researcher, curator and journalist. He develops projects around creative innovation and social technologies. Among other projects, he directs the VISUALIZAR program at the Medialab Prado art production centre, Madrid. He is a member of the curation committee of Sónar, Barcelona, and a member of the board of FAD, Barcelona's association for Arts and Design. He has been deputy director of ArtFutura and artistic codirector of the Offf Festival. Irma Vilà is a curator and a cultural producer. She explores art, science, society and new media intersections, as a result of her background in physics, multimedia, engineering and arts. She has collaborated in the production and RRPP of festivals as Sónar, Offf and Copyfight as well as in exhibitions in the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). Nowadays she works as curator and communication coordinator of ArtFutura Festival, and with Telenoika audiovisual artists collective.
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Co-commissioned by AV Festival 08 and NOW: Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona (CCCB).
At Radio Theatre to see Weekend Wogan with Peter Alllis Beth Nielsen Chapman, John Barrowman and Neil Se
February 28 2010
Photograph by Jack Pert.
Tony Wheeler's career in radio, which had really progressed very well, came to an end too soon when he died at age 41 of some kind of liver ailment.
Here's the text of an article on his death from the March 24, 1951, Binghamton, New York, newspaper:
Tony Wheeler
Rites Monday
In Owego
Funeral services for Anthony
Klem Wheeler, 41-year-old radio
announcer who was described to-
day as "one of the first real disc
jockeys in the business" will be
held Monday in his native Owego.
Mr. Wheeler, familiarly known
to Southern Tier radio audiences
as "Tony Wheeler" succumbed at
City Hospital at 5:30 p. m. yester-
day to a chronic liver ailment.'
He had been admitted to the
hospital Thursday. He had been
ill for about a year and had been
admitted to the hospital last
December for treatment and was
discharged early in January.
Services will be held at 2 p. m.
at the Estey and Munroe Funeral
Home, Park Street, Owego. The
Rev. Edgar Frank, pastor of Pres-
byterian Union Church, will of-
ficiate. Burial will be Evergreen
Cemetery, Owego.
At the time of his death, Mr.
Wheeler was employed at Station
WINR where he recently replaced
his announcer-son, William Wheel-
er, who has been drafted.
Mr. Wheeler was born in Owego
June 12, 1909, the son of Ezra and
Jenny Klem Wheeler. He was
educated in Owego schools.
He became an employe. of sta-
tion WNBF about 1930, beginning
his career as a radio engineer. He
obtained a radio license and was
second in command of engineering
at WNBF until about 1934.
Cecil D. Mastin, general man-
ager of WNBE, said today Mr.
Wheeler "was one of the fastest
code transmitting
men in the
business."
"Tony became very interested
in announcing from 1933 on and
acted in the dual capacity of an-
nouncer - technician during that
period. He was one of the first
real disc jockeys in the business,"
he said.
In 1940, Mr. Wheeler joined Sta-
tion WFIL, Philadelphia, Mr. Mas-
tin said, and "there he very soon
established a reputation as being
the outstanding announcer in the
city."
He returned to WNBF to
serve for one year as chief an-
nouncer in 1947. He later was em-
ployed in Rochester.
Besides his parents, with whom
he lived at 72 Forsythe Street,
Mr. Wheeler is survived by his
sons, William, stationed at Camp
Dix, N. J ., and John, of Philadel-
phia, and a daughter, Joan, also
of Philadelphia.
Modern architecture in Beijing
The new headquarters for China Central Television, OMA's largest project to date, combines the entire process of TV-making – administration, production, broadcasting – into a single loop of interconnected activity. Rising from a common platform accommodating production facilities, two towers – one dedicated to broadcasting, one to services, research, and education – lean towards each other and eventually merge in a dramatic, seemingly impossible cantilever. CCTV's distinctive loop aims to offer an alternative to the exhausted typology of the skyscraper. In spite of their potential to incubate new cultures, programs, and ways of life, most skyscrapers accommodate merely routine activity, arranged according to predictable patterns. Formally, their expressions of verticality have proven to stunt the imagination: as verticality soars, creativity crashes. Instead of competing in the hopeless race for ultimate height and style within a traditional two-dimensional tower 'soaring' skyward, CCTV proposes a truly three-dimensional experience, culminating in a canopy that symbolically embraces the entire city. CCTV consolidates all its operations in a continuous flow, allowing each worker to be permanently aware of her colleagues – a chain of interdependence that promotes solidarity rather than isolation, collaboration instead of opposition. The loop also facilitates an unprecedented degree of public access to the production of China's media: visitors will be admitted to a dedicated path circulating through the building, connecting all elements of the program and offering spectacular views from the multiple facades towards the CBD, the Forbidden City, and the rest of Beijing.
Text: OMA
Competition: 2002; Completion: 2010
Client: China Central Television (CCTV)
Architect: OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, NL
Site: 20 hectares in new Central Business District, Beijing, China
Program: CCTV: total 473,000m2: administration 64,800m2, multi-purpose: 54,900m2, news broadcasting 65,000m2, broadcasting 31,800m2, production 105,400m2, loop 11,100m2, services (canteens, gym) 22,500m2, parking 59,700m2.
Budget:5 billion RMB (€ 850 million)
Tower 1: Height: 234m, 54 floors. Footprint: 40x60m,2,400m2
Tower 2: Height: 210m, 44 floors. Footprint: 40x52m, 2,000m2
Overhang bottom: 162m, 14 floors
Overhang cantilever: 75m to the west, 67m to the south
Base height: 45m, 9 floors, footprint 160x160m
Basement: -18m, 4 floors
DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) have released 77,000 pictures from its archives for free use under the commercial Commons licence. Most of these pictures are from DR's studio productions but a number of pictures show everyday traffic situations from the 1940's onwards. I have collected the best of these in this series.
DR is Denmark’s oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. The corporation was founded in 1925 as a public service organisation.
This picture may be slightly cropped or the colours may have been ajusted. The picture is realesed under the Creative Commons License:
DRs historiske pressefotos (DR) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
riverview broadcast tower.WFTT-TV is the Telefutura affiliate for Tampa Bay, owned by Univision and operated by Entravision, owners of WVEA-TV. The station, which broadcasts on UHF channel 50, is based at WVEA's studios on Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa, and transmits from Riverview. WFTT can be seen on cable throughout the Bay Area on Bright House channel 5, and on Comcast in Sarasota County on channel 23.
At Radio Theatre to see Weekend Wogan with Peter Alllis Beth Nielsen Chapman, John Barrowman and Neil Se
February 28 2010
Communications Minister Nomvula Mokonyane addresses the Broadcasting Digital Migration Colloquium in Bloemfontein, Free State (Photo: GCIS)
The first time I have visited here since 1980, I believe when I went on my forst unacompanied trip to London. That day I bought records, lots of records as Soho was jammed with great record shops.
Broadcasting House is the headquarters and registered office of the BBC in Portland Place and Langham Place, London.
The building includes the BBC Radio Theatre from where music and speech programmes are recorded in front of a studio audience. The radio stations BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Radio 4 Extra are also broadcast from studios within the building.
As part of a long term consolidation of the BBC's property portfolio, additional services including BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 6 Music and the BBC World Service will move into Broadcasting House following an extensive renovation of the building. The move also includes that of BBC News and BBC World News from Television Centre into a newly constructed newsroom.
Construction of Broadcasting House began in 1932, and the building opened to the BBC's offices and radio operations on 14 May 1934, eight years after the corporation's establishment. George Val Myer designed the building in collaboration with the BBC's civil engineer, M T Tudsbery. The original interiors were the work of Raymond McGrath, an Australian-Irish architect. He directed a team which included Serge Chermayeff and Wells Coates and designed the vaudeville studio, the associated green and dressing rooms, and the dance and chamber music studios in a flowing Art Deco style. It was later said of his efforts that "the designs for the BBC gave the first real fillip to industrial design in England".[citation needed]
The radio studios were arranged in a central location and constructed of Portland stone. The remainder of the building was steel framed and faced with Portland stone on the outside. These areas housed the offices, so that they could be both away from the noise of the radio operations, and have access to daylight.[1] Objections by local residents also caused the structure to be changed. The east side of the building blocked out the light to local residents, and after complaints and seeking the right of ancient lights, the building was altered so that the east side of the building had a sloped roof. Underground structures, including hundred year old sewers, presented problems during construction. The building was built atop the Bakerloo line of the London Underground, while the Victoria line was in turn tunnelled beneath Broadcasting House in the 1960s, and has since presented problems for construction of the Egton Wing (see below).[2] Noise from passing trains is audible within the radio theatre, but generally imperceptible in recordings.
The ground floor of the building was fitted with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the street, as it was believed that to finance such a project (costing £25,000,000 in today's money) they would need to let the ground floor as a retail unit. The rapid expansion of the BBC meant this never occurred.
The original building also showcases a number of works of art, most prominently the statues of Prospero and Ariel (from Shakespeare's The Tempest) by Eric Gill. Their choice was fitting since Prospero was a magician and scholar, and Ariel, a spirit of the air, in which radio waves travel. There was, reportedly, controversy over some features of the statues when first built and they were said to have been subsequently modified. They were reported to have been sculpted by Gill as God and Man, rather than simply Prospero and Ariel, and that there is a small carved picture of a beautiful girl on the back of the statue of Prospero. Additional carvings of Ariel can be found on the building's exterior in many bas-reliefs, some by Gill, others by Gilbert Bayes.[3][4][5] The reception area also contains a statue of 'The sower' also by Gill.
The original structure is now a Grade II* listed building, and the BBC works with English Heritage on its maintenance
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting_House
IoE Number: 424540
Location: BROADCASTING HOUSE, PORTLAND PLACE W1 (east side)
MARYLEBONE, CITY OF WESTMINSTER, GREATER LONDON
Photographer: Mr Anthony Rau
Date Photographed: N/A
Date listed: 16 January 1981
Date of last amendment: 16 January 1981
Grade II*
The Images of England website consists of images of listed buildings based on the statutory list as it was in 2001 and does not incorporate subsequent amendments to the list. For the statutory list and information on the current listed status of individual buildings please go to The National Heritage List for England.
TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTLAND PLACE, Wl 45/106 (east side) 16.1.81 Broadcasting House G.V. II The building shall be upgraded to Grade II* (star), the letters 'G.V.' shall be deleted, and the first two sentences of the description shall be amended to read as follows: 'Offices and studios for the British Broadcasting Corporation (north extension not of special interest). 1930-32 by Col. G Val Myer and Watson Hart, relief panels by Eric Gill and Gilbert Bayes, etc.' ------------------------------------ TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTLAND PLACE, W1 45/106 (East side) 16.1.81 Broadcasting House G.V. II Offices and studios (north extension not of special interest). 1930-31 by Val Myers and Watson Hart, relief panels by Eric Gill and Gilbert Bayes, etc. Portland stone on steel frame. Long frontage to Portland Place, rounded end with main entrance to Langham Place and eastern return. Shallow modelling to stepped facades in mixed Modernist-Georgian monumental style. 9 storeys with 4 to 6 storey corner clock tower pavilion massing. 35-window range to Portland Place and 7 window wide rounded clock tower end. Main entrance to Langham Place has bronze doors under massive lintel and Eric Gill's "Prospero and Ariel" in niche above. The terminal pavilions to Portland Place have a shop front to south and entrance to north both surmounted by relief panels. Vertically proportioned shallow recessed metal glazing bar casements. 7 "porthole" windows in centre of top attic storey to Portland Place. Upper storeys recessed at various levels with metal balustrades at set-backs. Latticework masts over clock tower and behind. Inside the foyer the windows are flanked by pilasters with glass capitals and cornice carrying lights; Eric Gill's "The Sower" set opposite the entrance. The original, innovatory McGrath, Wells Coates, Chermayeff, etc. interiors and studio fittings removed. Thirties Exhibition Catalogue. Britain in the Thirties; A.D.Profile.
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