Old Sofia TV Tower
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Old Sofia TV Tower
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| Basic data | |||
| Place: | Sofia | ||
| Oblast: | Sofia city | ||
| Country: | Bulgaria | ||
| Altitude : | 595 m | ||
| Coordinates: 42 ° 40 ′ 36.9 ″ N , 23 ° 20 ′ 30.5 ″ E | |||
| Use: | Television tower | ||
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| Construction time : | 1958-1959 | ||
| Total height : | 106 m | ||
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| Laying of the foundation stone: | December 1958 | ||
| Floor space: | 144 m² | ||
| Opening: | December 26, 1959 | ||
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The old Sofia television tower , or more rarely: Borissowa gradina television tower , is a 106 meter high and Bulgaria's first television tower in the Sofia city park Borissowa gradina at 595 meters above sea level. The Bulgarian National Television (BNT) was first broadcast from the tower in 1959 .
history
The tower was planned and designed by Lyuben Podponev, engineer A. Wojnow and technician Georgi Kopkanow. The foundation stone was laid in December 1958, and the tower was officially opened after 11 months of construction on December 26, 1959. The tower was the first television tower in Bulgaria and also the first building of the Bulgarian National Television, which was then moved to the building in November 1962 Todor Straschimirow Street (today: Tulowo Street) moved. In the first years of its existence, the Bulgarian National Television broadcast all its programs from this tower, from Studio 1 (area 80 square meters) on the 4th floor. The first VHF broadcasts from Radio Sofia for the Sofia region began from the television tower: the 1st program (Horizont) , the 2nd program (Christo Botew) and the 3rd program (Orpheus) in stereo.
On November 1, 1959, the first, not yet official, broadcast from the new television tower took place. On November 6, 1959, television broadcast a live broadcast of the football match between Levski Sofia and Rapid Bucharest , after which a Soviet feature film was broadcast.
On November 7, 1959, the rally on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917 was broadcast from Moscow and Sofia from September 9th (today: Alexander I. Battenberg Square ). However, the official opening of the institution of Bulgarian television did not take place until December 26, 1959. The opening ribbon was cut by the then Deputy Prime Minister Walko Chervenkov .
After the broadcast of national television in 1959, the first national radio program followed in 1962, followed by a second station in 1965 and a third in 1971. In January 1972, the technology was replaced in order to broadcast color television for BNT in accordance with the Organization Internationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision to enable. The second state television program Efir 2 was broadcast from 1975 from the Sofia television tower.
Since the Kopitoto television tower, built in 1985 on the Vitosha mountain range near Sofia, took over these tasks, the old television tower has been a historical landmark and is only used for radio link connections .
The current owner of the tower is the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTK) (Bulgarian Българска телекомуникационна компания ; БТК).
description
The old Sofia TV tower is located at the intersection of Pejo Jaworow Street and Dragan Zankow Boulevard in the middle of the large, densely forested Borissowa Gradina city park. The building with a square floor plan is made of red bricks and is criss-crossed lengthways and crossways by light-colored concrete parts. In the middle of the facades, narrow windows are arranged between the concrete struts. The television tower has a floor area of 144 square meters, is 14 floors high and tapers on the last two floors as the corners are set back. On the roof, the tower carries three antenna platforms with a round floor plan one above the other. The platforms still house directional antennas today. Above that, an antenna structure completes the tower. An outbuilding is attached to the base.
Web links
- Old Sofia TV Tower. In: Structurae
- Radio and television in Bulgaria (Bulgarian)
- Images of the Kopitoto TV Tower and the Old Sofia TV Tower
- 360 degree panoramic image
Individual evidence
- ↑ 50 years of Bulgarian National Television ( Memento from September 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (bulg.)
- ↑ p. 108; Иван Славков: Батето. 1 том, Verlag Trud, Sofia 2010, ISBN 978-954-528-966-8 , Bulgarian (German translation of the title: Iwan Slawkow : Bateto. ), ( Available online here )