[BC] 2000 ft. Digital TV tower for Chicago

[Rob Atkinson]

Interesting about N.Y. politics Rich; i had no idea it was like that--the 
N.Y. state being republican--thought the whole state voted democratic.    
Sounds like Cook county IL, and the rest of the Illinois.   I've wondered 
what NYC TV will do.  It didn't look to me like they could all stay on 
Empire forever.   Maybe there is more room there than i thought.   I'll say 
one thing for Empire--of all the skyscrapers in this country, I'd feel 
safest in that one.

Actually I've wondered if building a huge antenna structure these days is a 
wise long-term investment.   While I am one of the cheap unwashed who 
continues to get tv with a log periodic on a mast, i foresee a point about 
10 years from now where 98% of TV is received via cable, dish, or internet 
stream where you download whatever CBS (or Fox, WB, ABC...) show you want 
from their server.

Rob Atkinson
st. charles IL


From: Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com>
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Subject: [BC] 2000 ft. Digital TV tower for Chicago
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:00:40 -0400

------ At 11:23 AM 10/25/2005, Rob Atkinson wrote: -------

>Today's Chicago Tribune has a front page report of a plan to construct a 
>2000 foot high freestanding structure downtown in the Streeterville 
>neighborhood that would consist of 3 legs braced at different heights, and 
>tapering into 3 spires at around the 1500 foot point.   A significant 
>purpose is that it serve as a location for digital TV antennas.    At this 
>point, it is only a plan and faces several hurdles which could cause it to 
>vaporize.    It would not be a office building but more like CN Tower, 
>higher than that but not as high as the TV tower in Fargo.

After 9/11 there was talk of a 2,000 ft. tower to be built on Governor's 
Island, just off Manhattan. I think the city had hoped to use the island for 
an amusement park and casinos if they could get state approval. You have to 
understand that the city and state are not friends and much of what the city 
does is governed by the state. Rent control, for instance, is a state 
regulation. Much of the state votes Republican. The city, Democrat. The 
state often punishes the city for that. Even the Republican Mayors are more 
like Democrats.

Since they're still fighting over what to build on Ground Zero any hope for 
a tower is years away.

Rich


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