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(September 2005)

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DE
deejay
I drove past the former Southern / TVS / Meridian studios at Northam in Southampton the other day. A very sad sight indeed - all boarded up and wire-femced off. The vandals are having a good go at making their mark on it. But the Meridian sun is still there! Sadly I don't have a pic.
TE
teleonline Founding member
deejay posted:
But the Meridian sun is still there!


I wonder if there is any way to obtain the Meridian sun.
DE
deejay
... but I have found these from Northam's days as a major production centre:

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jamiebro/tvstudio.jpg
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/itvsouthandsoutheast/southern/main/southernstudios1970l.jpg
DE
deejay
A few more pictures for your delight:

Broadcasting House, Belfast
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/photos/belfast/bbc1.jpg

Broadcasting House, Bristol
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~remko/pics/20020515-Bristol/slides/122-2230_IMG.JPG

Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow
http://www.rampantscotland.com/bbc1116a.jpg

The Forum, Norwich
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/images/bbc/bbcbuildings/350norwich_forum.jpg
JA
james2001 Founding member
deejay posted:
A few more pictures for your delight:

Broadcasting House, Belfast
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/photos/belfast/bbc1.jpg

Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow
http://www.rampantscotland.com/bbc1116a.jpg


Are they old images, or do those buildings still have the old signage on them? I know the BBC Radio Derby building still had the 80s signage on it as late as 1998.
TE
TELEVISION
http://www.bordertvarea.co.uk/border_hq/large/building2.jpg
http://www.bordertvarea.co.uk/border_hq/large/building1.jpg

Border's HQ.
PE
Pete Founding member
The Pink Palace didn't have a logo for ages. It just had big red BBC letters.

A few pics from google images.

http://www.teesfilm.co.uk/cgi-bin/rts2.jpg

http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/ruben.alvarez-martinez/photos/newcastle/bbc.jpg
AJ
A.J.A.
james2001 posted:
Are they old images, or do those buildings still have the old signage on them? I know the BBC Radio Derby building still had the 80s signage on it as late as 1998.


Can't vouch for BBC Scotland but assume it, like BBC Northern Ireland, has the new logo (which you can just about see here):

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/bbc_lge.jpg

From Irish Architecture
SP
Spencer
DJGM posted:
over at YTV's HQ on Kirkstall Rd, looks like they've probably laboriously scrubbed away any grubby imprints,
the old YTV chevron logo may have left behind, which some sort of industrial strength cleaning fluid!


Nah, it's just the whole building is dirt-coloured, so nothing shows up. Wink
TV
tvmercia Founding member
Pootle5 posted:
Perhaps they could take more space in the proposed "Cube" extension to Mailbox? See - The Cube


nope - the rumoured expansion is within the mailbox itself
PE
Pete Founding member
tvmercia posted:
Pootle5 posted:
Perhaps they could take more space in the proposed "Cube" extension to Mailbox? See - The Cube


nope - the rumoured expansion is within the mailbox itself


up or down?
NF
NewForest lad
deejay posted:
I drove past the former Southern / TVS / Meridian studios at Northam in Southampton the other day. A very sad sight indeed - all boarded up and wire-femced off. The vandals are having a good go at making their mark on it. But the Meridian sun is still there! Sadly I don't have a pic.


This picture I took last July, (2004)

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/dsc01659_sign_closeup_copy1.jpg

I do have more images of similar instance (but taken this year in better light) being more close- up. If anyone wants them, please message me!
You can see clearly where the old TVS holes are!

James

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