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WMAQ-TV logo, used from 1992 to 1995. The '5' in this logo, set in Helvetica, was also used from 1976 to 1985. Although NBC had long owned the WMAQ radio stations, the television station continued to maintain a callsign separate from those used by its co-owned radio outlets; this changed on August 31, 1964, when the network changed the station's calls to WMAQ-TV.
The NBC Tower is an office tower on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois located at 454 North Columbus Drive (455 North Cityfront Plaza is also used as a vanity address) in downtown Chicago's Magnificent Mile area. Completed in 1989, the 37-story building reaches a height of 627 feet (191 m).
The building’s bold design and Art Deco façade were widely regarded as shot fired at the Chicago Tribune, which operated out of the Tribune Tower, a large Neo Gothic building on North Michigan Avenue completed in 1925. Inside, the building featured a much-admired mural by John W. Norton.
The success of Radio 4 News FM during the first Gulf War (1991) led the BBC to propose the launch of a rolling-news service. Initially the plan was to broadcast a rolling news service on BBC Radio 4's long wave frequency; but this met with considerable opposition, both internally and externally, [6] so the BBC decided to close BBC Radio 5 and replace the old service's educational and children ...
When completed, the Sears Tower was the world's tallest building but not the world's tallest structure. Toronto's CN Tower was about 350 feet (106.7 m) taller, [183] although the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) does not consider the CN Tower to be a building, since it does not have floors from the ground up. [184]
WZRR – 99.5 – News/talk [3] Huntsville. WHRP – 94.1 – Urban adult contemporary [5] WUMP – 730/103.9 – Sports [5] WVNN – 770 – News/talk [5] WVNN-FM – 92.5 – News/talk (simulcast of WVNN) [5] WWFF-FM – 93.3 – Country/Nash Icon [5] WZYP – 104.3 – Contemporary hit radio [5] Mobile. WABD – 97.5 – Contemporary hit ...
The building was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw to be a fireproof design of poured reinforced concrete columns and an open-shell concrete floor. [6] Although considered to be expensive by the standards of that time, T.E. Donnelley agreed that the support would be needed for the many tons of paper they used and large presses they operated.
Structural engineering was by Thornton Tomasetti. [5] A topping-out ceremony was held in September 2019 and the building officially opened in on October 14, 2020. [1] With a height of 816.83 feet (248.97 m) and containing 57 stories, [6] [1] it is the tallest all-commercial building in Chicago since Two Prudential Plaza in 1990. [2]