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Post by William Martin on Oct 19, 2007 15:53:01 GMT
if rumours are true, the bbc will sell TV centre as part of the comming cut backs, as long as they don't cut back on the archives as well, on the plus side the BFI will get £25m (see seperate thread)
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Post by Gary Critcher on Oct 19, 2007 16:15:05 GMT
yes, the rumour I heard about 3 weeks ago was that the new owners of QPR FC (Formula 1's Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore) heard that the Beeb were looking to get out, they would buy TVC, knock it flat then build a new premiereship-sized stadium for the football team, while selling off the old ground not half a mile away.
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Post by Robert Manners on Oct 19, 2007 16:24:07 GMT
WoWWWW all that history would be gone in a flash!
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Post by Andrew Doherty on Oct 19, 2007 18:40:53 GMT
I remember the Televsion Centre being built in 1958/59. What a monstrous waste of a great facility to demolish the buildings, the earliest of which go back to 1951. It is over FIFTY Years of OUR licence money going into a very un-green land fill. So, friends of the government want it ... disgraceful!
The entire complex should be utilized by audio-visual organizations. The mob in power care about the price of everything and the value of nothing with the exception of their own desires for which there are UNLIMITED FUNDS.
I say, again, the entire complex belongs to the licence payers and not to a group of appointed individuals to do as they please, AND this applies even more so to the government and its 'friends' ... how dare they!
Yours, feeling as we ALL should that have helped pay for the Television Centre.
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Post by lpmoderator on Oct 20, 2007 9:26:52 GMT
Yes, a great shame. The saddest thing though is the evaporation of the philosophy that went with TVC; the notion of a creative production pool under one roof, making a continuous stream of programmes for the nation seems to have completely evaporated. Everything is downsized, fragmented, farmed out. The technical side now is light years ahead of that, say, 30 years ago but there is no evidence that the current way of working produces programmes with half the imagination, warmth or creativity of those produced "in house" at White City for several decades.
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Post by robb on Oct 20, 2007 11:36:59 GMT
i find it a disgraceful waste of money, so why did they fork out a lot of money with the posh extension for  and that was out of license fee coffers too. millions of 'em |
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Post by Ian Ferrier on Oct 20, 2007 12:25:18 GMT
hello,
Very sad to see the building sold but just maybey during the clear out they might stumble across a few missing episodes lying in some dark corner.
However I may be just raising my hopes too high !
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Post by Paul Vanezis on Oct 20, 2007 15:54:54 GMT
Very sad to see the building sold but just maybey during the clear out they might stumble across a few missing episodes lying in some dark corner. I think anything is possible, but of more concern is what sort of rationalisation of media will take place during the move. When Pebble Mill closed, I was tasked with deciding what rushes and insert material would be kept. Out of 90, 000 rushes tapes dating back to 1988, I kept around 5000. At some point these have to be viewed and compiled. The photograph library however, was mostly sent to TVC. What was left lying on the floor (!!) I now keep in my locker, although it is mainly resources/building shots. Once at TVC though, many were just chucked out. They already had what they needed. I'm afraid though that the closure of TVC is just one area of these changes which will affect many. Although there are around 10% job losses, there will be 25% + job losses in my grade in Birmingham. Of 132 permanent staff in Factual TV, 34 will lose their jobs. Buildings are one thing, livelihoods are another! Regards, Paul |
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Post by lpmoderator on Oct 22, 2007 9:05:24 GMT
Is there any significant archive material housed at TVC that could be under threat with the closure then, Paul?
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Post by Paul Vanezis on Oct 22, 2007 12:52:17 GMT
Is there any significant archive material housed at TVC that could be under threat with the closure then, Paul? I doubt it. It's possible that some rushes material will go, but that is rarely kept anyway. Windmill Road has had a recent clearout of its one inch archive, so for example, the Doctor Who studio material is no longer officially existing. In reality it is in bonded storage for our use. Some quad material from 1964 was found a few years ago under the floor of one of the workshops. It turned out to be the tape offline (in 625) of 'Hamlet at Elsinore'. The actual TX version did though exist as a 35mm film recording, but it was nice to have the VT. Cheers, Paul |
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Post by Andy Howells on Oct 22, 2007 13:01:18 GMT
Did I once read a rumour somewhere that during some refurbishment in the 70's it was possible some old reels could have been used to line the inside of walls with? Mind you, it'd be a bit extreme to knock down TVC just on the offchance!!!!
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Post by Simon Winters on Oct 22, 2007 14:06:43 GMT
Some good may come of this - if BBC4 is to survive, and if the amount of repeats is to increase, then we may get more archive repeats and less junk like Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe.
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Post by garyjordanbrum on Oct 24, 2007 20:57:19 GMT
They've even cut back on the taxis, MT told em on yer bike.  |
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and that was out of license fee coffers too. millions of 'em
