![]() | This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
'Most BBC national and international TV output comes from Television Centre' - this is surely not true these days, since channel playout has been done from Red Bee up the road for several years now, and only a minority of programmes come from studios within TVC. -SP
The building design (from the air) was inspired by the shape of a question mark drawn on a piee of paper. The curved part of the '?' allowed studios to be built at exactly equal distances from the CAR (Central Apparatus Room) before broadcast. These days, thanks to digital signals, exactly identical distances are no longer required, as signals can easily be delayed by fractions of a second in order to achieve good 'mixes'.
I have removed the statement that the power cut, causing the Today programme to drop off the air, lead to an alert among Britain's nuclear submarines. I think this is sensationalist. A few arguments:
There must be room for Roy Castle tap-dancing round the fountain (and breaking a world record) in this article. Jooler 18:52, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Studio 1 is big, but even when it opened in 1964 it was smaller than Rediffusion's studio 5 at Wembley. MMC's studio complex at Cologne has seven studios with usable floor areas larger than the usable 810 m2 of TC1, including three studios twice the size, and one even larger with a usable floor area of 2118 m2 (studio 30/31). [2]
Changing the claim to read "second largest television studio in Britain". -- Jheald 16:28, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
You say you have had admin clarification, please can you actually post it here please, otherwise I'll assume you're just pushing your own POV. BRIANTIST (talk) 14:55, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Think that I prefer the former - so no scrapping please or I'll take my ball home (BBC_Television_centre.JPG that is) seriously tho'....
One or two errors have crept in:
Could go on but I'll stop there as I'm beginning to sound like Mr. Angry! Grrrrr Zir 17:08, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I've just replaced the use of the term 'filmed' with 'recorded or transmitted' in the studios section, since this is more accurate - extremely rarely where any productions filmed (ie using a film camera) at Television Centre - they were normally either recorded (eg onto videotape), or transmitted live, both using multiple video cameras. Tonys ( talk) 16:34, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
Was it because, after 50 years, the building had become obsolete??? Did the BBC move to a smaller facility and it was more cost effective??? Why??? User:JCHeverly 21:16, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Cyberbot II has detected links on BBC Television Centre which have been added to the blacklist, either globally or locally. Links tend to be blacklisted because they have a history of being spammed or are highly inappropriate for Wikipedia. The addition will be logged at one of these locations: local or global If you believe the specific link should be exempt from the blacklist, you may request that it is white-listed. Alternatively, you may request that the link is removed from or altered on the blacklist locally or globally. When requesting whitelisting, be sure to supply the link to be whitelisted and wrap the link in nowiki tags. Please do not remove the tag until the issue is resolved. You may set the invisible parameter to "true" whilst requests to white-list are being processed. Should you require any help with this process, please ask at the help desk.
Below is a list of links that were found on the main page:
\bchange\.org\b
on the local blacklistIf you would like me to provide more information on the talk page, contact User:Cyberpower678 and ask him to program me with more info.
From your friendly hard working bot.— cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 17:06, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
Cyberbot II has detected links on BBC Television Centre which have been added to the blacklist, either globally or locally. Links tend to be blacklisted because they have a history of being spammed or are highly inappropriate for Wikipedia. The addition will be logged at one of these locations: local or global If you believe the specific link should be exempt from the blacklist, you may request that it is white-listed. Alternatively, you may request that the link is removed from or altered on the blacklist locally or globally. When requesting whitelisting, be sure to supply the link to be whitelisted and wrap the link in nowiki tags. Please do not remove the tag until the issue is resolved. You may set the invisible parameter to "true" whilst requests to white-list are being processed. Should you require any help with this process, please ask at the help desk.
Below is a list of links that were found on the main page:
\bchange\.org\b
on the local blacklistIf you would like me to provide more information on the talk page, contact User:Cyberpower678 and ask him to program me with more info.
From your friendly hard working bot.— cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 00:21, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 2 external links on Television Centre, London. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 06:47, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
The lead was way too big, so I've summarized and removed the below material.
It looks like most of this is already covered in the "Development" section, but someone may want to review if there are parts worth re-integrating into the body of the article. (Taking this much out didn't break any refs, so there may be unique refs that should be restored.)
==
It was announced on 21 September 2010 that the BBC would cease broadcasting from Television Centre in 2013.
[longlead 1] On 13 June 2011 the BBC announced that Television Centre was on the market, and that it was "inviting bid proposals from people looking for a conventional, freehold property or those interested in a joint venture", suggesting that it may yet remain connected to the BBC.
[longlead 2]
In July 2012 it was announced that the complex had been sold to property developers Stanhope plc for around £200 million and that the BBC would retain a continued presence at Television Centre through its commercial subsidiaries BBC Studios and Post Production ( BBC Studioworks since 2016) and BBC Worldwide. BBC Studios and Post Production (relocated to Elstree Studios) was due to move back to Television Centre to operate Studio 1, 2 and 3 in 2015, but it was announced in July 2014 that it had agreed with the developers, Stanhope, to move back in 2017, at the same time as other key tenants, to enable the most efficient overall site construction programme to take place. [longlead 3] BBC Worldwide moved into office space in the Stage 6 building following extensive refurbishment in 2015. [longlead 4]
The radio and television news departments moved to Broadcasting House in central London, the home of BBC Radio, as part of a reorganisation. BBC News moved to new facilities in Broadcasting House on 18 March 2013, but TVC remained in active use with many programmes being taped in the studios until it closed for redevelopment officially on 31 March 2013. BBC TVC was one of the largest such facilities in the world and was the second-oldest operational television studio in the United Kingdom, after Granada Studios where Granada Television was based for many decades. [longlead 5]
Stanhope said in April 2014 that the new Television Centre development would "pay homage to the original use of the building" and retain original features of the buildings including the "doughnut", atomic dot wall and Helios statue.
[longlead 6] The new Television Centre will be opened up to the public and will offer entertainment and leisure facilities, including a new branch of members' club
Soho House, offices aimed at the creative sector and approximately 1,000 new homes, together with pedestrian access through the site providing connectivity with the local area, including Hammersmith Park.
[longlead 7]
[longlead 8] The refurbished Studios 1, 2 and 3 reopened in September 2017 and, since the closure of ITV's
London Studios, have been the studio base for
Good Morning Britain,
Lorraine,
This Morning and
Loose Women.
[longlead 9]
-- NapoliRoma ( talk) 10:25, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi all, I'm proposing the redevelopment section of the article is moved and merged with the history section, as it is currently somewhat unhelpful to have the recent history of the building at the opposite end to the modern history with loads of technical information in between. Tvcameraop ( talk) 13:24, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
I suppot the proposed change.
Senator2029
“Talk”
23:13, 28 July 2020 (UTC)