Broadcasting from the “Mediated Center:” Baltimore’s Candelabra Television Tower, circa 1959

Jeremy Kargon

Journal of Urban Technology, 2020, vol. 27, issue 2, 81-102

Abstract: The rise of post-WWII television markets around the world required new technical solutions for broadcast media. These solutions became novel examples of urban-scale infrastructure, including the “television tower” as a unique structure. Among early American examples is Baltimore’s three-mast “candelabra” television tower, completed in 1959. Although the project’s feasibility depended upon advances in structural design, its most significant innovation was institutional. As an early example of “infrastructure sharing,” Baltimore’s candelabra tower illustrates how innovative built form can engender a new relationship among technology, urban infrastructure, and the production of cultural capital.

Date: 2020
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