Television Centre on Google Street View

Ohhh. Didn't know he was there.

I think the lamps are bagged up to protect them from the dust and debris that will almost certainly circulate during building work on the site?

Not sure how much kit has been removed from TC1-3.

Elstree Film Studios is mainly kitted out with ex-TC4, 6 and 8 equipment I believe (or did BBC Elstree Studio D get TC6s?) as these are redundant.

TC5 and 7 weren't HD - so their kit is presumably being flogged, along with N6, N8 and N9s (though some has been distributed to Cardiff, Bristol etc.) I'd imagine that routers, vision mixers and monitor stacks may be mothballed, though cameras would presumably have been relocated to Elstree?

I would expect lamps, pantos etc. to stay in-situ and not be replaced. Unless they decided to go all LED, what's the point?

I think there were quite a few RM machines. After all, at the end of the day they are PCs. There aren't actually that many consistent corporate suppliers of PCs these days (HP/Compaq, Dell, Lenovo are, I guess the big 3) and RM were one of the main UK suppliers. (The BBC still had a slightly attitude to buy British or European until relatively recently)

The last time I was at TVC i had a wander up there and it's not very exciting, the suites were stripped out to offices which had been used for editing. There was no technical equipment there at all


And if you look carefully you'll notice that there's a little bit of Scotland in there too!

There's an Elonex 486 in one of the racks in CAA

Probably going to spend way to much of my Saturday having a virtual wander round, its not as glamorous as I thought it would be. and is that Lino in the corridors? still, pretty cool to see behind the scenes.

Yeah I am going to do this properly tonight but I really wanted to see N6 and N9 really.

He isn't, the DG's office is in Broadcasting House. And always has been, I think.

There was definitely a DG office in the minging White City building on the fifth (I think) floor because it was signposted when you came out of the lifts. Might not have been his primary one though.

I think the DG and associated management will have moved out of BH while it was redeveloped. Although when Greg Dyke was ousted he came out of the building via the side reception door

Here are some other bits of TVC some forumers might find interesting:
WH Smith http://goo.gl/maps/hW0aJ
For many years this was a very small newsagents called Kish's. TC also had a Florists (called Auntie's Blooms), a Hairdressers and a Dry Cleaners, as well as a Costa Coffee and various other concessions (especially as the BBC's interest in providing subsidised catering waned).
Weather Centre http://goo.gl/maps/zCs8S
TV Weather Studio http://goo.gl/maps/47P9c
Radio 5 Live Control Room & Studio http://goo.gl/maps/B8zeD
5th Floor (formerly offices for BBC Sport) being used as a 'set' for the filming of An Adventure in Space and Time http://goo.gl/maps/SXFwV
The stairs leading to the original presentation area (including Broom Cupboard) on the 4-and-a-halfth-floor http://goo.gl/maps/fWDGk
Part of the Studio Ring Road, between the Scenery Workshops/Storage buildings and TCs1-3 http://goo.gl/maps/IagXW
A SIS Live truck parked outside TC3 http://goo.gl/maps/fTQPD
A rather sad looking TC4 http://goo.gl/maps/EdmCG
The Foyer, the area you waited in if you're in a studio audience http://goo.gl/maps/poJYt

The office where my career began *sigh* http://goo.gl/maps/rZ9XP

Shame that they didn't do the other floors of the Spur as there's plenty of gems that way including the almost impossible to locate TC10 & 11. I wonder why they didn't do floor 7 considering that was part of the doughnut. They would have got some decent views from the front.