On an entirely unrelated note, I found a D3 machine sitting in the old DTA kitchen the other day.
They're homing machines I believe What is in the DTA now?
Storage, mostly - there's a tiny bit of coding & mux kit still in operation, but NTS (who look after the computer network) have moved to elsewhere in the building & off-site.
I stand corrected then - I don't recall Inside Out ever using anything other than the approved news-safe ones, but they were definitely all made for South (can't remember why).
I tell a lie...I've had a dig around and I see that Tapdogs was also used around the same time! I'd forgotten about ever seeing that; memory working as good as always...
TX was September '06, so towards the very end of their tenure; perhaps they were left unused for the most part until those final months / weeks?
Kind of on-topic - Chris Moyles and Andi Peters try and find the broom cupboard in TV Centre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJBpUNT9e4c&feature=related This part 2 but there's not much to see in part 1!
As most of us know it's not there anymore so there isn't a great deal to see in part 2 either but it shows what became of the old presentation area...
Nope, it doesn't - they were on the wrong floor! The old presentation areas were on the 4th floor (now used as offices for TV comedy), and CAR / CCA has always been on the third floor.
I suspect that the people on shift last Tuesday evening would have told Moyles to bugger off
Nope, it doesn't - they were on the wrong floor! The old presentation areas were on the 4th floor (now used as offices for TV comedy), and CAR / CCA has always been on the third floor.
I suspect that the people on shift last Tuesday evening would have told Moyles to b****r off
Funny that as at the start of the video Moyles mentions how they were going to the 4th but Andi now remembers it was on the 3rd, so seems like he's completely forgotten!
Yup he's got that completely wrong. The original presentation area, with the corridor and the two studios Andi remembers was on the 4th floor. When that closed, presentation moved to the 2nd Floor where Telecine used to be (I think). CBBC pres and promotions versioning remained on the 4th floor until new facilities for them were built. The 4th floor became the DTA, and where the studios were became the Red Button / CBBC / CBeebies control area (MSA). Most of the fabric of the DTA is still in existance I gather but without any technical kit. It's become storage and office space AIUI. The situation in the NTA (2nd floor) is different: while the NC1/NC2/Spare control suites were completely stripped and knocked through into one room, a lot of the anciliary areas and the apparatus rooms are still pretty much as they were.
If Andi and Moyles really wanted to see 'a broomcupboard' they could see if they can get into the 2nd floor and try finding Studio-P. This was a replacement, single camera announcers booth which had lights, autocue and a small GVG vision mixer. AFAIK it never went to air and was used mainly as a recording booth for announcers. I think it was a standby pres area for CBBC if TC9 was out of action - it always had a flat behind the announcer's seat with some branding on it at least. However, I have no idea if that studio remained untouched...
Most of the fabric of the DTA is still in existance I gather but without any technical kit. It's become storage and office space AIUI.
It was very odd wandering around there after BBC Broadcast had vacated it - lots of empty pres suites and voiceover booths - and with very few lights on and lots of full-height glass walls at angles, slightly spooky too!
The situation in the NTA (2nd floor) is different: while the NC1/NC2/Spare control suites were completely stripped and knocked through into one room, a lot of the anciliary areas and the apparatus rooms are still pretty much as they were.
and became home of Freeview (in a big hurry) and laterally the Digital Operations Centre (which was the same, built a bit more robustly)
If Andi and Moyles really wanted to see 'a broomcupboard' they could see if they can get into the 2nd floor and try finding Studio-P. This was a replacement, single camera announcers booth which had lights, autocue and a small GVG vision mixer. AFAIK it never went to air and was used mainly as a recording booth for announcers. I think it was a standby pres area for CBBC if TC9 was out of action - it always had a flat behind the announcer's seat with some branding on it at least. However, I have no idea if that studio remained untouched...
When I worked in the DOC, it was used as a storage area, so we still called it the broom cupboard. It's still full of junk, but there are some signs of its original purpose: windows into the corridor and the next room, and a basic lighting grid.
What is in the DTA now?
