Studios

The studio milkshake is in, is in the complex apparently

Although they decided they didn't need them anymore, it's a shame they got rid of the actual studios. One of my all-time favourite TV shows was broadcast live from the main studio ... when MTV was at it it's best (IMO) as a music based entertainment channel.

I wouldn't be surprised if Milkshake is in the tiny studio The Wright Stuff used at Hawley Crescent in the early 00s.

Rathbone Place, that rings a bell from when I was a kid obsessed with watching Nick and Watch Your Own Week and Wednesdays
Wasn't the Nick studio next to the road side?

Shame we didn't see much of Ray Cokes after Most Wanted, he was a good presenter. I know he popped on up Channel 4's Wanted but after that he seemed to migrate to Europe and do work there. I dare say Quiz TV or a shopping channel may have been right up his street, filling hours of waffling on about nothing.

The days when the kid's channels had in-vision continuity, which I always enjoyed and appreciated and they often put quite a bit of effort into. Long gone everywhere except CBBC/Cbeebies, sadly.

CBeebies doesn't do in-vision continuity live, probably never has done. CBBC continues of course but its clearly the last bastion of that presentation stable. Surprised its lasted this long really though of course its funding source is a bit more guaranteed than that of the commercial networks so...

An old TV Forum post suggests the old Nickelodeon Studios on Rathbone Place was bright orange on the outside, though looking at it now appears to be a natural brick coloured building anyway here but if you click back to July 2014 you can see the Nickelodeon branding in all its glory, plus if you go left while looking at 2012 you can see the big Nickelodeon logo inside the smaller building with the bright orange door.

On a related note, there was one night in the mid-00s where on Nickelodeon after closedown they did what I assume was some sort of engineering test where they ran all sorts of footage, which included the recordings of their in vision continuity. Starting quite recent, then getting older as it went on. The newer footage was recorded from the channel feed (so you saw bits of the trailers and programmes either side), but once they were showing stuff from circa 1997 it included off-air stuff, I remember seeing one bit where you saw the presenter talking to a caller before going on air, and on another the presenter just walking off set once the link was over.

Another Nickelodeon related thing is Rocko's Modern Life has finally got a full UK DVD release this week, like a decade after it got one in the US.

This must have been the last time they used the window 'studio' view at Rathbone:

Sorry to take the off-topic tangent even further off course, but I remember a small ‘working’ Nickelodeon studio in the National Media Museum in Bradford. Does anyone know what this was used for?

That was originally TV-am's regional contribution studio. I think it was only used for pre recorded inserts into Nick although there was technically no barrier to it going live.

Didn't they have a studio in the Trocadero at one time too?