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...WTVJ Built Its Thousand-Foot Tower
It didn't look like much in May 1953, but on this sparsely wooded site in Hallandale Beach WTVJ's one thousand foot broadcast tower would soon rise.
The tower replaced WTVJ's antenna on the top of the Everglades Hotel in downtown Miami, and was advertised as dwarfing Miami's tallest buildings "3 to 1." The competition: the Dade County Courthouse at 336 feet; the Miami News Building, now known as Freedom Tower, at 254; and the aforementioned Everglades Hotel at 306 feet. Do the math...That's 896 feet.
The tower also dramatically increased the reach of the station's signal, widening WTVJ's viewership to include Broward County and the Bahamas.
Subscribe to the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives’ YouTube channel and tune in to the fascination and fun of Miami and Florida’s past, captured on film and video and preserved by the Wolfson Archives at Miami Dade College.
This video and audio is copyrighted/owned by the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives at Miami Dade College.
This clip is derived from news film in the WTVJ Collection. Accession number TVN0080-415-03; airdate May 28, 1953.
It didn't look like much in May 1953, but on this sparsely wooded site in Hallandale Beach WTVJ's one thousand foot broadcast tower would soon rise.
The tower replaced WTVJ's antenna on the top of the Everglades Hotel in downtown Miami, and was advertised as dwarfing Miami's tallest buildings "3 to 1." The competition: the Dade County Courthouse at 336 feet; the Miami News Building, now known as Freedom Tower, at 254; and the aforementioned Everglades Hotel at 306 feet. Do the math...That's 896 feet.
The tower also dramatically increased the reach of the station's signal, widening WTVJ's viewership to include Broward County and the Bahamas.
Subscribe to the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives’ YouTube channel and tune in to the fascination and fun of Miami and Florida’s past, captured on film and video and preserved by the Wolfson Archives at Miami Dade College.
This video and audio is copyrighted/owned by the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives at Miami Dade College.
This clip is derived from news film in the WTVJ Collection. Accession number TVN0080-415-03; airdate May 28, 1953.
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