1960: BBC TELEVISION CENTRE OPENS | News Extra

1960: BBC TELEVISION CENTRE OPENS | News Extra | BBC Archive

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When BBC Television Centre opened on 29 June 1960 at Wood Lane in West London, News Extra was on hand to give us a behind the scenes look at the building "that may well become the Hollywood of television".
Originally broadcast, December 1960.
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@Stephen_Lafferty Жыл бұрын

How lovely to see it shiny and new! So many childhood memories were made in that concrete doughnut!

@stevenjohnson7442 Жыл бұрын

The wide shot of the Television centre looks like a model. So clean.

@hilaryepstein6013 Жыл бұрын

A lovely brand new Television Centre which held a special place in the nation's heart for many years - until the BBC in their wisdom disposed of it.

@UrbanPicturesUK Жыл бұрын

To be fair, it was blooming expensive and not a good spend of taxpayers' licence fee money in a time when TV can be made without the needs for such lavish studios and sets,

@guitarnationtv Жыл бұрын

@@UrbanPicturesUKblx! It was the making of Britain and the BBC and the destruction of Britain and the BBC to dissipate out of the Nation’s capital and gift the Dream Factory to ITV who only employ mates and dodge scrutiny

@macronencer Жыл бұрын

I visited TVC in 1986 (or maybe 87?), when I was looking for a job in computer graphics (I didn't get a job, but they very kindly showed me around). Amazing to be inside the place! Highlights included being shown the computer whose sole purpose was to generate the spinning globe logo (for BBC2, I think?), and also entering a room and noticing a shelf by the door with all the cutout figures from the Captain Pugwash series just lying on it, abandoned. Good grief, I wonder what those would fetch on eBay now...!

@83marceloa Жыл бұрын

I lived in White City between 2007 and 2011. Very fortunate to past by the old BBC every day. Yes, I had the chance to visit that.

@LostsTVandRadio 8 ай бұрын

Oh yes - I remember ... Back in the glory days when BBC Television came from the capital.

@TheDjcarlos67 Жыл бұрын

Cool building

@jmd2006 Жыл бұрын

Such a shame they got rid of this, Maida Vale too. All that history.

@stevenjohnson7442 Жыл бұрын

It's still being used as a Television centre and its in high demand. The have added flats and apartments. The original plan was to demolish the entire centre. I'm glad that didn't happen.

@wmbrown6 7 ай бұрын

At 1:16, the Marconi Mark IV - also used from the early 1960's to 1965-66 at CBS studios including Television City in Hollywood.

@BenLindsay3001 Жыл бұрын

MY DREAM WORKPLACE! 😍

@gabriel771100 Жыл бұрын

Love the patriotic music! Alf Garnet would have been proud!

@elijahmodnar1 Жыл бұрын

ooo, before they added the reception/rooftop bar

@johnnyballenatl 10 ай бұрын

Television Centre was Britain’s - and perhaps Europe’s - answer to [CBS] Television City here in the States; dozens of iconic shows were taped on those lots (Television Centre: Monty Python, Doctor Who, Top Of The Pops, Strictly Come Dancing (which would be imported worldwide as Dancing With The Stars) and countless “Britcoms”; Television City: Carol Burnett, Sonny & Cher, Young and the Restless, All In The Family, The Masked Singer, American Idol, the aforementioned DWTS, Real Time with Bill Maher, and countless game shows (Match Game, $25,000 Pyramid, Press Your Luck, The Price Is Right, etc.)). Fremantle moved American Idol and TPIR to new studios in 2023 while Television City will be undergoing renovations.

@constantlyenthused336 Жыл бұрын

The BBC shot itself in the foot when it got rid of it. TVC served to focus the entire operation and creativity ran amok there for decades. It was sold it off to much denigration and disapproval at the time and everything has arguably been downhill ever since.

@OlafProt Жыл бұрын

“…Smell My cheese. You’re All on the BBC gravy train…”

@Tmuk2 Жыл бұрын

The BBC lost its soul when it left this building 😢

@johnking5174 Жыл бұрын

BBC lost it's soul long before 2013 when they left TV Centre

@fidelcatsro6948 Жыл бұрын

is this place still in use today?

@hilaryepstein6013 Жыл бұрын

It's been turned into luxury flats. I believe they kept some studios which are leased back to the BBC.

@bigmanjorge Жыл бұрын

It was owned by the BBC up until 2013, when they decided to sell it to a development company. However a few years later they decided to rent some of the studios out, so it’s now a mix of BBC studios, ITV studios and housing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Centre,_London

@stephenguppy7882 Жыл бұрын

It retains some studios which appear to be used by ITV to churn out their appalling daytime schedule as well as other stuff for the hard of thinking, like Ant and Dec.

@helmsly2010 Жыл бұрын

This Morning on ITV is filmed there, they show it every day between ad breaks

@johnking5174 Жыл бұрын

Only three studios out of the original eight remain today. Studio TC1 is their general entertainment studio. Studio TC2 and TC3 are block booked to ITV Daytime, who produce Good Morning Britain and This Morning in TC3 with Lorraine and Loose Women in TC2.