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Thirty Productive Acres
Published 15 April 2022
A trip to Kingswood Warren to see how the BBC Research Department is keeping ahead of technological developments
ITN’s building plans in mint condition
Published 10 January 2022
Work is well underway on a building to replace ITN House on Wells Street in London
Continental television stations
Published 23 December 2020
A look at how television facilities have developed across Europe in 1967
The ABC of TV
Published 10 March 2020
From chromakey to cycloramas, the jargon of television production in 1975 is explained here
From the Televault: TWW’s unique top floor
Published 1 October 2019
What goes on high above us all at TWW’s studios?
ATV Centre: bringing colour to life in the Midlands
Published 3 June 2019
The Birmingham Post celebrates the opening of the new ATV Centre in 1970 with a special pull-out supplement, digitised by us for you
Color City
Published 3 December 2018
The grand opening of NBC’s new colour studios in Burbank, California, is celebrated by the ‘NBC Chimes’ staff magazine in 1955
⧉ Gigglers, gogglers and gumption
Published 15 September 2017
⧉ Over on our Rediffusion subsite, director James Butler talks about the hell that is studio visits by the public
Granada TV Chelsea
Published 3 August 2015
Practical Television in 1958 looks at Granada’s branch studio in London
Westward progress
Published 20 July 2015
Practical Television in March 1962 looks in-depth at Westward’s almost-complete studio complex
Studio Zero
Published 16 March 2015
Having decent studio space: from pride to an embarrassment in 60 years
So long, New Broadcasting House
Published 3 December 2011
Wandering round the BBC’s former Manchester studios
Central dismembered
Published 17 October 2010
Roddy Buxton on the end of ATV and Central’s Birmingham citadel
This is Elstree, part 1
Published 4 October 2010
Roddy Buxton on the history and development of ATV’s Elstree studios
Paradise Lost Part IV – Central House
Published 25 April 2009
Extending the studios as Central launches
Paradise Lost Part III – The Nerve Centre
Published 30 November 2008
Roddy Buxton hits the 4th Floor
Paradise Lost Part II – Main Studios
Published 26 October 2008
Our exploration of ATV Centre continues
Whatever happened to Brookside Close?
Published 18 November 2007
Roddy Buxton explores the Brookside set
A trip to Broad Street
Published 1 March 2007
1997: time for a final trip around ATV Centre before all the gear is sold off.
Scotland’s Media Capital
Published 30 October 2005
Glenn Aylett details Glasgow’s new and existing BBC and independent television production centres