TV studio buildings.

please say you didn't mock that up especially for that lame joke? how lame.

one would expect if it fell down it might have broken.

What could one do with a 16 foot white chevron?

well they might as well go the whole hog, and remove Yorkshire Television as well.

I buy it, firstly because it's one thing keeping old defunct signage but it's another trying to get the funding to pay some builders to put an old defunct logo back up, also as someone said, a bit of plastic falling from a wall onto a concrete floor may have broken it.

As others have said, if they were planning on putting a new sign up, they would have done it by now, and taken all the old lettering down, and also the YTV Chevron can still be seen elsewhere around the exterior of the Kirkstall Road studios just not here

As has been said before, I don't think there is any specific plan within ITV to remove any old signage.

Eg, I believe Border still have the old BORDER in a box with "itv" below it logo on their building, and TTTV didn't change theirs in 35 years -- the old signage is still present on the old building. The new building has a very poor, obviously thrown together itv logo on it, clearly they didn't spend too much cash on it as it is changing soon.

Chances are the only reason Westcountry changed was to get rid of the Carlton logo which has no place given that the Carlton name is no more.

As has been said, the chevron likely fell off and was damaged, and it was deemed pointless to replace it. Pity it didn't fall down five years ago really.

It just looks silly without their chevron, isn't anyone sentimental in that place.

Did anyone else notice that at the same time the yellow chevron supposedly fell down that the chevron from the Emmerdale Production Centre also disappeared? Bit of a coincidence then.

Well, they could always replace it with the ITV squares? eh?


no..ok..

Can I ask what studio(s) is contained within the signature left-hand block of Television Centre? Studio 1?

http://www.lazyorange.net/junk/tvc_02.jpg

I also would have thought Granada to be a Protected Structure - certainly it ought to be. The lettering is a remarkable survivor by any standards - truly extraoridnary it survived in an industry obsessed with image and relaunches.


Well on the theme of 1960s television buildings, here is the Montrose campus - headquarters of RTÉ in south Dublin:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/RTE1TV/TelevisionCentre.jpg

To the rear in the pic is the beautiful award-winnning Miesian Television Centre designed by Scott Tallon Walker and built between 1960 and autumn of 1961 (though the interior wasn't finished for a while after).
It's a very substantial building - elegant in its simplicity with marching columns and windows into the distance:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/RTE1TV/RTBuilding.jpg

It avoids the common problem of studio complexes having large blank walls by shrouding the studios in the centre with office and ancillary accommodation facing the world outside. It contains about 5 substantial studios, and various small ones upstairs including the Newsroom.

The building in the foreground is a bland granite-clad modern day office building from c1998. It houses pretty much all RTÉ Television production offices at this stage, including a huge office for The Late Late Show on the ground floor.


In what seems to be an entirely coincidental move, the RTÉ campus was built on the Montrose estate of the Jamison family, of whom Annie Jamison was a member - wife of Marconi, the inventor/developer of radio!
He often stayed in the family home, a big Victorian pile of a house standing directly across from the Television Building and a stone's throw from the Radio Centre!

RTÉ Radio is located in an equally beautiful Miesian pavillion-like building designed by Ronnie Tallon in the 1970s.

You can just see the elegant four-storey Administration Building in the distance in the first picture, where the powers-that-be have the top floor to themselves. This building was designed and built in tandem with the Television Building.

A really lovel campus all round - leafy, quiet and relaxing. Entirely different to what goes on in galleries inside

No dirty shadow of where the chevron was! Some pictures of studio buildings have some ancient logo ghosting under the new one.

Indeed . . .


While BBC Manchester still has the grimy remnants of their old logos from the 1980's of the front of their building,
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!

Yep, that's Studio 1.