TVC was built in stages, although they were roughly planned from the start.
Indeed...my point was that TVC designed from the start with an intention to expand beyond the core. The designers aimed with stages 1-3 to have a "Factory". Stages 4 (News) 5 and 6 were added although offered little extra to the first 3 stages.
On the other hand, Granada was developed as needs evolved and there was a financial case for expansion.
That was the difference I was trying to make.
GMT on World News were doing a special report about it as well.
Saw it on Impact with Lyse Doucet and after it she said something like ''and very soon we all will be joining them in our new building....'' First time I see someone mention the move on air.
GMT on World News were doing a special report about it as well.
Saw it on Impact with Lyse Doucet and after it she said something like ''and very soon we all will be joining them in our new building....'' First time I see someone mention the move on air.
When a torch was lit on Broadcasting House for some ceremony last year and it was carried on BBC News and BBC World News, the narrator/announcer said 'And Broadcasting House will be the home of BBC News, including the BBC News channel and World service in 2012/2013'. I believe that was the first time the 'move' was mentioned on both outlets and that was last year, as I say.
It looks now as if the BBC wants to have most of its London based programming, except Eastenders, coming from W1. I can imagine what will happen is for shows like Strictly and Comic Relief, which require a big studio, they could keep a studio at TVC, and rent it out to other broadcasters at other times.
TVC is, for all I love the building, an anachronism in many ways now. Most drama and comedy is made on location, which makes the studios and the scenery block that supplied them redundant and the move of sport and children's to Salford was the killer blow for this building as the decision to move news to BH had been made 4 years earlier. I often wonder, though, if the BBC had decided to keep sport and children in London if TVC would still have a future.
Not exactly the best quality, but enough detail to see the old BBC Manchester, looking a shadow of its former self.
It seems the old place is going through asbestos removal work, although I'm surprised something like that hadn't
been done a lot sooner, like perhaps several years ago, long before the BBC had plans to sell up and move out.