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Welcome to ex-bbc.net This website provides bulletin boards for former BBC staff and freelances, so that they can be in touch with each other and post news that's relevant to them. If you want to know whenever a new message is posted on any particular topic, go into it and click "Get Notification" at the top.
Local Radio Desks - Mark III
Local radio really came of age with the development of the Mk III equipment. Whereas the first 20 stations had a conventional studio and cubicle (or Ops. Room) with Mk III came the concept of the three-in-line studio suite. There was a desk in each end area (Cubicles 1A and 1B) and a common Studio 1 between them which could be controlled from either cubicle.history of television studios in London
Early Plans As soon as the war was over the BBC knew they would need to build a 'television centre'. They acquired Lime Grove Studios and shortly afterwards the Shepherds Bush Empire (Television Theatre) and Riverside Studios but these were stop-gaps and the intention was to move all television production into this new purpose built centre. A site of 13 acres, previously occupied by part of the Franco-British Exhibition was bought shortly after the war.
Some of the most on-going fun I had at the BBC was 11 years in cameras during the golden age of television. I started this site seven years ago (currently September 2009) when I found a number of long lost photos from the sixties/seventies and was so pleased about this that I wanted to share them. I had the thought that there might be others out there with pics (and stories) that they too could share, and it seems I was right - 158 pages on...
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Early Plans As soon as the war was over the BBC knew they would need to build a 'television centre'. They acquired Lime Grove Studios and shortly afterwards the Shepherds Bush Empire (Television Theatre) and Riverside Studios but these were stop-gaps and the intention was to move all television production into this new purpose built centre. A site of 13 acres, previously occupied by part of the Franco-British Exhibition was bought shortly after the war. This 140 acre exhibition had consisted of several highly ornate pavilions all faced in white which came to give this area of London just north of Shepherds Bush the name 'White City.'