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Its arguable who produces more - in terms of hours of programmes its a close call. If you count Emmerdale & Countdown its proberbly Yorkshire. YTV is split in two with the link road down the middle. The high profile bit to the left (the pictures were in this thread somewhere) is the bit everyone thinks of as Yorkshire TV , If I remember it was 4 studios, presentation, canteen etc - and lots of pastel coloured corridoors as it was the Bruce Gyngell era when I was there. It was always fruit and yoghurt in the canteen too! & I seem to remember dusty bin was painted on the studio door. They record Countdown from that same studio.
The rather boring building to the right is production offices for YTV and independants,they also doubled for Inspector Frosts offices and police station. Heartbeat & the Royal's offices were there. The calendar newsroom is in there along with the scenery dock it was all hidden away round the back. Emmerdale interiors are in there now too. The outside set being on the Harewood house estate.
Just to flesh out Troggles excellent discription, the main building use to have five studios (1-5), one continuity (never used as such), studio two for Calendar (I've been told it no longer exists - confirmation welcome) and three studios (3,4 & 5) for network production. Also here was the scene dock and garage for the OB units (I haven't been inside for some years, so forgive meif this has now changed).
Accross the road use to be Leeds City Ice Rink until urchase in 1989 as the YTV News Centre. At the time YTV was thinking about/producing regional news for radio and other broadcasters. It's quite a huge thing and also now contains the regional production studios. You can also see it on Holiday Undercover.
The Emmerdale production centre is also here (Studio 1) and a huge expanse of car park at the rear.
In addition YTV has further premises accross the road to facilitate it's production for other broadcasters. There is also the mill at Farsley, seven floors of 'studio' space where Heartbeat and The Royal are based. This was opened in 1989.
YTV and Granada's drama department's are now lumped together as the Northern Drama Division, and hence most of it is under the head of Keith Richardson. As he's based in Leeds, most production now takes place at Kirkstall Road.
TROGGLES posted:
gerryuk posted:
Is Yorkshire Television's Leeds centre bigger than Granada in Manchester?
How many studios do they both have, does Yorkshire now make more programmes for the ITV network in Leeds than Granada does in Manchester?
I have seen many pics of the Granada centre in Manchester but cant find any decent pics of the Yorkshire centre in Leeds to compare.
If anyone has any pics of the Yorkshire centre in Leeds please upload them on here thanks.
How many studios do they both have, does Yorkshire now make more programmes for the ITV network in Leeds than Granada does in Manchester?
I have seen many pics of the Granada centre in Manchester but cant find any decent pics of the Yorkshire centre in Leeds to compare.
If anyone has any pics of the Yorkshire centre in Leeds please upload them on here thanks.
Its arguable who produces more - in terms of hours of programmes its a close call. If you count Emmerdale & Countdown its proberbly Yorkshire. YTV is split in two with the link road down the middle. The high profile bit to the left (the pictures were in this thread somewhere) is the bit everyone thinks of as Yorkshire TV , If I remember it was 4 studios, presentation, canteen etc - and lots of pastel coloured corridoors as it was the Bruce Gyngell era when I was there. It was always fruit and yoghurt in the canteen too! & I seem to remember dusty bin was painted on the studio door. They record Countdown from that same studio.
The rather boring building to the right is production offices for YTV and independants,they also doubled for Inspector Frosts offices and police station. Heartbeat & the Royal's offices were there. The calendar newsroom is in there along with the scenery dock it was all hidden away round the back. Emmerdale interiors are in there now too. The outside set being on the Harewood house estate.
Just to flesh out Troggles excellent discription, the main building use to have five studios (1-5), one continuity (never used as such), studio two for Calendar (I've been told it no longer exists - confirmation welcome) and three studios (3,4 & 5) for network production. Also here was the scene dock and garage for the OB units (I haven't been inside for some years, so forgive meif this has now changed).
Accross the road use to be Leeds City Ice Rink until urchase in 1989 as the YTV News Centre. At the time YTV was thinking about/producing regional news for radio and other broadcasters. It's quite a huge thing and also now contains the regional production studios. You can also see it on Holiday Undercover.
The Emmerdale production centre is also here (Studio 1) and a huge expanse of car park at the rear.
In addition YTV has further premises accross the road to facilitate it's production for other broadcasters. There is also the mill at Farsley, seven floors of 'studio' space where Heartbeat and The Royal are based. This was opened in 1989.
YTV and Granada's drama department's are now lumped together as the Northern Drama Division, and hence most of it is under the head of Keith Richardson. As he's based in Leeds, most production now takes place at Kirkstall Road.