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The Weather
Published 21 November 2022
Getting the symbols to stick to the map is only the last stage of forecasting the weather on the BBC
Pictures from 60 BBC years
Published 14 November 2022
The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs
Reference Library
Published 10 October 2022
In an age before Google, one of the most vital parts of the BBC was its reference libraries
‘He’s Dead Funny Sometimes’
Published 30 June 2022
Meet the man whose laidback style belies his nose for hard news
The BBC Television Centre
Published 17 June 2022
A look around the BBC Television Centre as the first studio programme goes out and a party is thrown
Setting the Scene for TV
Published 11 April 2022
A visit to the Scenery Block – the first part of the new BBC Television Centre
Another chance to see… Top of the Pops
Published 3 February 2022
It’s Number One, it’s Top Of The Pops!
BBC Television Builds a New City
Published 31 January 2022
Huw Wheldon takes us around the new Television Centre, under construction in Shepherd’s Bush
The White City site
Published 10 December 2021
The BBC’s Civil Engineer describes how the new Television Centre in London’s Shepherd’s Bush will look
BBC Television is 25 years old
Published 2 November 2020
A local newspaper celebrates 25 years of BBCtv in 1961
Progress in television
Published 25 September 2020
The BBC brings us up to speed on recent developments in television in 1961
The Television Centre – its significance for professional visitors
Published 3 July 2017
From 1968, a look at why BBC Television Centre was attracting crowds… of other broadcasters
Under construction
Published 17 November 2016
The BBC Handbook for 1961 celebrates the opening of the first studio at Television Centre
Studio Zero
Published 16 March 2015
Having decent studio space: from pride to an embarrassment in 60 years
A place to call our own
Published 13 June 2011
From a purely practical and logistical perspective, the BBC’s Television Centre is nowadays a large, old-fashioned and under-utilized building that must cost a fortune to heat and to cool, as…
Why does the Guardian sell more copies at the BBC?
Published 28 October 2008
Stephen’s post, They would say that, wouldn’t they? mentions that the branch of WH Smiths in the BBC’s Television Centre, sells, as a percentage of all papers sold, a disproportionate number of copies of The Guardian compared with the country overall.
TV Centre potentially safe and GCap maybe ready to fall
Published 5 March 2008
If you’re one of those people who think that the BBC would be insane to sell off its flagship building, then you might be encouraged by something on Media Guardian this morning.