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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 project was developed by Peel Media; its principal tenants are media organisations and the Quayside MediaCityUK shopping centre. [1] The land occupied by the development was part of the Port of Manchester and Manchester docks. The BBC signalled its intention to move jobs to Manchester in 2004, and the Salford Quays site was chosen in 2006 ...
New Broadcasting House, home of BBC Manchester from 1975 until 2011. From 1975, BBC Manchester's base was New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road in Manchester city centre. New Broadcasting House had one small studio and one large studio, Studio A which was equipped for live programming and recording drama programmes.
dock10 is a television facility owner and media services company in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. dock10 offers a number of services including post production and The Studios. Its studio filming facility, often referred to as The Studios, is the best-known part of the company.
Before New Broadcasting House opened, the BBC's Manchester base was at Broadcasting House in Piccadilly, and from 1958 it occupied four floors of Peter House in St Peter's Square. Dickenson Road Studios , the former studio of Mancunian Films in Rusholme , was bought in 1954 and Milton Hall on Deansgate was the home of the BBC Northern Symphony ...
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
BBC North West is the BBC English Region serving Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, as well as parts of North Yorkshire (western Craven), Derbyshire (western High Peak), Staffordshire , Cumbria (Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakeland) and the Isle of Man.
Unlike most major cities in the United Kingdom, there are no height restrictions on city centre high-rises in Manchester. [16] If all future proposals come to fruition, Greater Manchester could contain nearly 400 buildings over 50 m (160 ft) tall, as well as nearly 70 high-rises above 100 m (330 ft) and 23 skyscrapers above 150 m (490 ft).