Ling Long Pagoda

The Ling Long Pagoda or Linglong Tower (Multifunctional Studio Tower[1]) (玲珑塔[2]) houses a part of the International Broadcast Center (IBC). It is located near the Olympic Cauldron, on the northwest side of Beijing National Stadium.[3] "Ling Long" (玲珑) means delicate, and is referred to as the Delicate Tower in Chinese.

Ling Long Pagoda in 2009.
Not to be confused with the Linglong Pagoda in Baitayu, Liaoning Province

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.[4] 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 building was operated Beijing Olympic Broadcasting.[5][6][7][8] 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 ocuped by a television CCTV, BBC,[9] CBC Television for both French and English networks,[10] France Télévisions - France 2 & France 3,[11] Mexican olympic consortium,composed by Televisa[12] and TV Azteca shared use of the tower's studio facilities. CBC has occuped the fourth pod from the bottom.[13] BBC occupied the second pod from the bottom.[14][15] France Television is also on the third floor.[16] NBC's Today Show tapes are made from the ground floor.[17]

See also

References
  1. Official Beijing Olympics site, Ji Lin: Nine aspects to be guaranteed during the Games Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine, March 12, 2008
  2. 新华社, 图文-奥林匹克多功能演播塔 不停变换身姿秀丽绚烂, 年07月30日21:42
  3. Official Beijing 2008 site, Ma Guoli: High definition signals to enable superb Olympic broadcasting Archived 2008-08-24 at the Wayback Machine, October 24, 2007
  4. Beijing Olympics official site, Studio tower to rise from Olympic Green Archived 2008-08-16 at the Wayback Machine September 29, 2007
  5. Beijing Olympic Broadcasting Co. News Headlines
  6. SportsBusinessDaily, All Around The World: CBC, BBC Prep Their Olympic Coverage Plans
  7. BBC Sniffer dogs and security sweeps Jonathan Bramley July 24, 2008
  8. The Walrus, Live from Ling Long Pagoda Archived 2008-12-01 at the Wayback Machine Mitch Moxley August 8, 2008
  9. China Daily, Broadcasters move into Olympic press center, Cui Xiaohuo, 2008-07-09 08:07
  10. Globe and Mail, Is this the CBC's last hurrah? WILLIAM HOUSTON August 7, 2007.
  11. Humanité, Pékin : faites vos Jeux !, Fernand Nouvet, le 31 juillet 2008
  12. Xinhua, Mexican television to send 200 staff members to Beijing 2008 Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine, July 10, 2008
  13. CBC Television, Olympics Morning, 10:00am EST August 11, 2007
  14. CBC, If only the weather co-operates Bernice Chan August 4, 2008
  15. BBC Sports, Beijing flyby: BBC Sport's Olympic studios
  16. Un Web, France Télévisions débourse 70 millions d'euros pour les JO Archived 2008-08-23 at the Wayback Machine, Vendredi 8 août 2008
  17. Huffington Post, Reporting for Volunteer Duty at Beijing's Olympic Broadcast Tower Courtney Woo July 30, 2008
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