Involving building one of tallest structures in Thailand, state-owned broadcaster MCOT is to develop an advanced broadcasting hub. The project is expected to cost around ฿10bn (US$335m), and promises to be one of the most advanced broadcasting complexes in Southeast Asia.
The first construction phase is expected to be complete within three years, and comprises a 30,000-sq-m activity park, 5,000-seat theatre and the 59-storey, 369m-high broadcasting tower. At 634m, the Tokyo Sky Tree project remains on course to be the world’s talles broadcast tower when it is completed later in 2011.
MCOT CFO Jessada Promjit has announced that the tower will serve Thailand’s move to digital broadcast. ‘MCOT wants to act as a transmitter provider so other broadcasters don’t have to invest in their own networks,’ he says.
The second phase of the project will slao see a building of 60,000 sq-m considered as a residential project.
