Broadcasting House, Salford Quays & TVC

Nope, I was there as a member of the public to see a BBC Four sitcom recording in TC3. Was the penultimate comedy show before the closure, the final one is a pilot Vic and Bob are doing next week.

Have seen pictures from N9 coming into the Broadcast Centre though, pitch black apart from a computer monitor blinking away somewhere.

Aah thanks Blake lights down for n8 and n9 as expected.

It'll feel odd not checking this post for the latest developments and pictures. Now that all the major moves are soon to be completed, it won't be long before this thread is archived forever.

While TVC isn't exactly the most energy efficient building, you wouldn't leave the studio lights on unnecessarily!

TC7, N8 and N9 are all still powered up. TC7's Barcos are still on, and despite looking fairly dim, they do kick out quite a bit of light (and therefore make getting a photo of yourself posing at desk a bit tricky with just the houselights on, as I discovered yesterday). N8's big screen has a picture of Eric Joyce MP looking a bit grumpy, and the pod has the usual fake newsroom picture on the plasmas. And while N9's studio isn't doing much, its gallery was live for some of the weekend in its DR role for BBC Parliament.

I'll still be based there for a little while yet, so will be sure to keep you all posted.

Bit of TV history coming to an end. I'm watching the last couple of hours of BBC News to see if anything special is done at the end....

All this fuss about TV Centre today does smack a bit of News being a bit self important.... when people think of TV Centre they think of showbiz, not news! Friday's special will be much more of a landmark

That said, it will be the first time that no TV has been originating at TVC in many years (it'll still be passing through for a bit). If you count overnight closedowns, I assume that's whenever the first 24 hour service started, which would have been BBC World Service TV?

Some more pics of TVC:
http://mikeosbornphoto.com/2013/03/17/goodbye-television-centre/

Phillip Schofield's put up a video on Twitter of himself going to find where the broom cupboard was before tonight's BBC4 Goodbye Television Centre recording.

http://telly.com/94JD6R

Unfortunately he's used some app called Telly. I managed to get it playing through that on my iPhone, eventually, not that there's much to see. Given how much that area had been remodelled I'm amazed he has managed to narrow it down as much as he says he has. When I had a wander a while back it was, as has been said many times, completely unrecognisable from the old pres corridor that there are clips of on You Tube. He certainly did a better job of finding it than Chris Moyles and Andi Peters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJBpUNT9e4c

It worked after a while for me, bit of a daft site.

That area is now (or was until very recently) The Wedge which was a series of edit suites on the fourth floor behind the lifts. Online comedy was also based there. I'd go as far as to say that the corridors in that part of the building were probably the most baffling of all of Television Centre. When you got lost there, boy did you get lost.

Last time I was there the obituary of a certain elderly presenter was being edited together.

Before that it was the Digital Transmission Area. The original layout was quite logical and had a corridor that went around the outside. Then a few years later it expanded into the old Pres studio area and lots of smaller rooms were added behind and a mezzanine floor put in so it turned into a bit of an odd layout. I don't know how much rebuilding it had afterwards, I'd imagine the playout suites were a decent size for edits

I can't get that video to work either.

I went into that area relatively recently when it was being used to store costumes. The walls and layout of the DTA was almost completely intact, though all the technical equipment had been stripped out. They were essentially just offices, however there were one or two remnants of its former life: red lights above the old Continuity suites and the odd sign saying "Suite D" etc.

I assume being part of the Wedge, it will be demolished as part of the redevelopment?

Telly.com seems to be the new name for Twitvid. The site is pretty horrible, though - it appears the video has been removed, but the only clue to that is in the comments, not in any error message.

Any sign of the old Broom Cupboard is long gone - as said, the whole area was gutted when it became DTA. And I really need to find a floorplan, because the corridors are like a maze.

I had a wander around there on Sunday, and it appears that they've not quite moved out yet. Some of the edit suites were still powered up, and some signs up suggested they'd been using them for Comic Relief. The mezzanine office (once the top half of the pres studios; I think it was later Multi-Streaming Area before it moved up to be Playout 9 at the Broadcast Centre) is some sort of comedy development office, and has a fire escape which leads out to the rooftop satellite platform.

and speaking of odd bits in the centre wedge...