The Ling Long Pagoda or Linglong Tower (''Multifunctional Studio Tower'') (玲珑塔) houses a part of the International Broadcast Center (IBC). It is located near the Olympic Cauldron, on the northwest side of
Beijing National Stadium
The National Stadium (), also known as the Bird's Nest (), is an 80,000-capacity stadium in Beijing. The stadium was jointly designed by architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron from Basel-based architecture team Herzog & de Meuron, p ...
. "Ling Long" (玲珑) means ''delicate'', and is referred to as the ''Delicate Tower'' in Chinese.
Description
The permanent structure is a three-sided tower. The tower contains 6 occupiable pods with open space in between. One of the pods displays the Olympic rings. It is 128m tall, with 7 occupiable floors, each an equilateral triangle. The floors are subdivided into two levels. The glass-walled pods are held up by three supporting ribs at the three corners.
During the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
the building was operated by
Beijing Olympic Broadcasting. Some international broadcast studios was located in the pods of the tower, offering skyline views as backdrops of Olympic broadcasts. Each one of each floor was occupied by a television network.
CCTV
Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly t ...
,
BBC,
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ...
for both French and English networks,
France Télévisions -
France 2 &
France 3, Mexican olympic consortium, composed by
Televisa and
TV Azteca shared use of the tower's studio facilities. CBC has occupied the fourth pod from the bottom. BBC occupied the second pod from the bottom. France Television is also on the third floor.
NBC's ''
Today Show'' tapes are made from the ground floor.
[Huffington Post]
Reporting for Volunteer Duty at Beijing's Olympic Broadcast Tower
''Courtney Woo'' July 30, 2008
See also
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Venues of the 2008 Summer Olympics
References
External links
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Venues of the 2008 Summer Olympics
Buildings and structures in Chaoyang District, Beijing