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FEATURE BBC TELEVISION CENTRE
Television Centre in London enjoyed iconic status as the home of the BBC before the building was sold in 2012 and the Corporation moved out. Now the Beeb is back on site – and it’s 4K ready... BBC 2.0 WORDS JULIAN MITCHELL PICTURES STUDIOWORKS
environment boasting the latest in broadcast technology. There’s even room for a studio audience – should you need it! TC1 is the flagship studio at 10,800 square feet, with seating for 600. It’s fully 4K-ready, including 4K cameras and 4K glass (with a couple of minor tweaks it could produce a 4K show tomorrow) cabled in SDI and fibre for normal SDI workflows or IP-based workflows. All this fulfils Studioworks’ desire for a fully future- proofed studio. The other two studios are upgradable to 4K as well, with work, ensuring ‘a foot in both camps’ and not too much of a stretch for TC2 and TC3 to run 4K productions. Conversations with production companies about 4K productions have taken place, and, Studioworks say, ‘We’re ready when they are...’
or those brought up in the UK, the BBC’s Television Centre was known as the place where the Corporation lived, where it made its programmes and where all the fun happened. The building was originally opened in 1960, and was the biggest TV production facility of its kind in the world at the time. The site has been undergoing major redevelopment works since 2012 when it was sold by the BBC to the property company, Stanhope plc. Last September, BBC Studioworks, a commercial part of the BBC, reopened three state-of-the- art studios as well as post-production facilities on the site, to create the centrepiece of a newly transformed vibrant and creative media quarter in London’s White City. Now, the new broadcast facility is being used by broadcasters and independent production companies to make all kinds of content, in a versatile
BELOW AND LEFT The versatile new studio space at Television Centre is equipped to deal with a variety of programme types, from panel shows to sitcoms, from light entertainment to chat shows.
4K FUTURE PROOFING Television Centre’s audio and video
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