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Quay House is the BBC's 135,000-square-foot (12,500 m 2) main building from where BBC Breakfast, Match of the Day, BBC Radio 5 Live, North West Tonight and BBC Radio Manchester are broadcast. [ 32 ] Bridge House is the production base for Blue Peter , Mastermind , Dragons' Den , CBBC , and BBC Bitesize . [ 32 ]
BBC Manchester transferred its base to MediaCityUK in 2011 which is located two miles west of New Broadcasting House in Salford Quays. New Broadcasting House was demolished in 2013, and the land is now being developed into high rise accommodation and office buildings under the moniker 'Circle Square'.
The idea for MediaCityUK began in 2004 when BBC announced that it was interested in moving hundreds of jobs away from London to another UK city. [3] The Peel Group was involved from the early stages of this move, which resulted in announcing the construction of a 200-acre development in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester.
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The city has had a long heritage of producing programmes at various studios, most notably at ITV's Granada Studios and the BBC's New Broadcasting House. Dock10 studios is located in MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, a couple of miles (about three kilometres) outside Manchester city centre.
BBC Centre House White City, London: Former home to BBC Research South Lab [38] Old Broadcasting House: Leeds: BBC North (1968–2002), BBC Yorkshire (2002–2004) BBC Radio Leeds (1968–2004) New Broadcasting House: Manchester: BBC North West (1981–2011) BBC Radio Manchester (1975–2011)
The last edition of the programme from Studio B at New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road aired on 27 November 2011 and was also the last broadcast from the studios after 36 years of operation. The programme's first broadcast from the BBC's Salford Quays studios took place the following day, during the BBC Breakfast programme.
BBC North West moved into new studios at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays during Autumn 2011. The new development houses all departments previously based at New Broadcasting House alongside BBC Children's , BBC Sport , BBC Radio 5 Live , BBC Breakfast , BBC Learning and BBC Future Media departments and services, creating the biggest broadcast ...