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AM
amosc100
Neil DG posted:
DJGM posted:
aconnell posted:

Just to spread the word that BBC tours of MediaCityUK are starting on 31st March.

More details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/tours/salford.shtml


With an £8.50 adult admission fee! It should be free for anyone from a household that pays the TV Licence.


If you live in most postcodes in Manchester, Salford or Trafford authorities, you'll have free access on their community open days.

Oh look, I do! Very Happy


ime to use the M26 postcode again!
NI
nidave
amosc100 posted:
Neil DG posted:
DJGM posted:
aconnell posted:

Just to spread the word that BBC tours of MediaCityUK are starting on 31st March.

More details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/tours/salford.shtml


With an £8.50 adult admission fee! It should be free for anyone from a household that pays the TV Licence.


If you live in most postcodes in Manchester, Salford or Trafford authorities, you'll have free access on their community open days.

Oh look, I do! Very Happy


(to put the other point of view across) erm, I think the people who are interested in a tour should have to pay.. I don't want to fund the admin (of the tours) and salary of the people who run the tours out of the licence fee.

ime to use the M26 postcode again!
DJ
DJGM
buster posted:

DJGM posted:

aconnell posted:

Just to spread the word that BBC tours of MediaCityUK are starting on 31st March.

More details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/tours/salford.shtml


With an £8.50 adult admission fee! It should be free for anyone from a household that pays the TV Licence.



How's that work then? You may as well argue that all BBC DVDs/magazines etc should be free too.


No. All official BBC DVD's and branded merchandise are sold by the BBC's profit based and wholly owned commercial subsidiary, BBC Worldwide. Meanwhile, BBC Magazines is a separate company, and isn't even called BBC Magazines anymore. AIUI, the company was sold sometime last year to a private equity group along with two other magazine
publishing firms, and is now trading under the name of Immediate Media Company Ltd.
BA
baa
Great and all but all you did was tell us what BBCWW does like we don't know and that they don't do magazines anymore. Tell us how the license fee should be paying for these tours because I'm not sure if any of the fee should be going towards helping a handful of people walk around a BBC building for an hour.
DJ
DJGM
amosc100 posted:
Neil DG posted:
DJGM posted:
aconnell posted:

Just to spread the word that BBC tours of MediaCityUK are starting on 31st March.

More details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/tours/salford.shtml


With an £8.50 adult admission fee! It should be free for anyone from a household that pays the TV Licence.


If you live in most postcodes in Manchester, Salford or Trafford authorities, you'll have free access on their community open days.

Oh look, I do! Very Happy


Time to use the M26 postcode again!


Doesn't look like the M26 postcode is included on the qualifying list ( PDF ) for the Community Open Days.
The M45 postcode area (Whitefield) isn't on there either.
OV
Orry Verducci
Good job I have an M6 postcode Very Happy

Hopefully they'll be doing the proper studio tours for them, as I see enough of less interesting bits of MediaCity every day anyways.
AC
aconnell
And Blue Peter garden in Salford will be open to public:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17042868

So it will be ground-level now, not on the rooftop as previously intended.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/15/blue-peter-garden-bbc
Last edited by aconnell on 15 February 2012 2:50pm
BU
buster
aconnell posted:
And Blue Peter garden in Salford will be open to public:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17042868

So it will be ground-level now, not on the rooftop as previously intended.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/15/blue-peter-garden-bbc


We can expect it to be be vandalised a lot more than in the 80s if it's going to be public then. Wonder how long the Petra statue will last?
GO
gottago
buster posted:
aconnell posted:
And Blue Peter garden in Salford will be open to public:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17042868

So it will be ground-level now, not on the rooftop as previously intended.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/15/blue-peter-garden-bbc


We can expect it to be be vandalised a lot more than in the 80s if it's going to be public then. Wonder how long the Petra statue will last?


Given the visible security presence in the area I'd be very surprised if we saw any major vandalism.
TR
trivialmatters
They've realised it's too windy to film on the roof? Or that it's free to film on the public piazza as opposed to booking the rooftop garden and paying for it?

Considering people managed to dodge security and break into high security TV Centre to trash the garden, I don't think this will survive long. Security can't be stood there 24 hours a day. I give it four weeks before the statue of Petra is nicked and sold for scrap metal. Oh, as it's Salford, 3 weeks.
OV
Orry Verducci
gottago posted:
Given the visible security presence in the area I'd be very surprised if we saw any major vandalism.

I second that, there's security guards constantly patrolling the site, with police officers also occasionally coming over as part of their beat. If anyone did try to vandalise it, I expect security would pick them up before they get very far with their plans.
PE
Pete Founding member
Also CCTV didn't exist when the initial vandalism occurred.

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