A view from the tower's observation platform to the Alps
A view from the tower's observation platform of the adjacent
Olympic Village
The Olympiaturm (English translation: Olympic Tower) in Olympiapark (the Olympic Park), Munich was built for the 1972 Summer Olympics. It has an overall height of 291 m and a weight of 52,500 tons. At a height of 190 m there is an observation platform as well as a small rock and roll museum housing various memorabilia. Since its opening in 1968 the tower has registered over 35 million visitors (as of 2004). At a height of 182 m there is a revolving restaurant that seats 230 people. A full revolution takes 53 minutes. The tower also serves as a broadcast tower, and has one Deutsche Telekom maintenance elevator with a speed of 4 m/s, as well as two visitor lifts with a speed of 7 m/s which have a capacity of about 30 people per car. The travel time is about 30 seconds. The tower is open daily from 09:00 to 24:00 hrs (last elevator up at 23:30).
List of channels [edit]
The following radio and television stations broadcast from the Olympiaturm.
Analogue FM radio [edit]
Digital radio (DAB)/Digital mobile television (DMB) [edit]
- Block 11D: 222.064 MHz (DAB)
- Block 12D: 229.072 MHz (DAB)
Digital television (DVB-T) [edit]
- UHF 26: 514 MHz
- UHF 34: 578 MHz - RTL Group
- UHF 35: 586 MHz - ZDF
- UHF 48: 690 MHz - ProSiebenSat.1 Media
- UHF 52: 722 MHz: Mixed private channels
- UHF 54: 738 MHz - ARD national programming
- UHF 56: 754 MHz - ARD/BR regional programming (South Bavaria)
Ham radio and television [edit]
- Callsign DB0EL
- Callsign DB0TVM
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