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Title: Going Hungry?
Post by Administrator on Jun 26^th, 2012, 5:16pm

Ariel reports:-

"Television Centre is to lose four of its catering outlets by the end of the year, including its original restaurant....

Empty by 2013

Large numbers of BBC News employees are set to begin their move from TVC to New Broadcasting House after the Olympics, leaving the Wood Lane site at just 50% capacity by the end of the year. All staff will be gone by the summer of 2013."

Title: Re: Going Hungry?
Post by FoxyFace on Jun 29^th, 2012, 8:37am

In 1967 you could get a main course and a pud(with custard) for about 3/6d...mind you my salary was not such a hot dinner in those days!

Title: Re: Going Hungry?
Post by Peter_Neill on Jul 1^st, 2012, 9:19pm

Empty by 2013

Large numbers of BBC News employees are set to begin their move from TVC to New Broadcasting House after the Olympics, leaving the Wood Lane site at just 50% capacity by the end of the year. All staff will be gone by the summer of 2013."

Which isn't quite what I was told a couple of weeks go.

Latest rumour is that once News has moved out, their space will be taken by Worldwide. Following that, the central doughnut will be emptied and refurbished, with TCs 1-4 being totally modernised before being re-opened 2 years later.

Make of that what you will.

Title: Re: Going Hungry?
Post by Mikej on Jul 1^st, 2012, 9:45pm

Perhaps so they can move Breakfast there and be able to get guests?
And move sport to a nice re-furbished TC5 to be near where everything happens (darn sarth)?
And maybe even move Blue Peter to where they can have a nice garden?
Have the Breakfast news political correspondants near Westminster?
And own the freehold so don't get ripped off?
And have a branch of the BBC Club?
And not have to pay presenters/guests vast sums to commute north or stay in hotels?

Oh dear, what have I said?

Mike

Title: Re: Going Hungry?
Post by double-vision on Jul 2^nd, 2012, 12:40pm

And perhaps even become the great institution it once was again!
Dave.

Title: Re: Going Hungry?
Post by Mikej on Jul 2^nd, 2012, 9:53pm

Full story here from Ariel

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/18601335

Mike

Title: Re: Going Hungry?
Post by JohnW on Jul 3^rd, 2012, 5:32pm

Pains me to say it, but the way the Beeb management is behaving - not just towards its staff, but also in the way it's handling its buildings (TVC in particular!) - I'm now somewhat ashamed to be associated with the organisation!

I have always counted myself as being privileged to have worked in such an august body. World leaders we were! The broadcasting organisation that everyone turned to and referenced themselves to - that was until Birt screwed the organisation over (to get himself a knighthood) and then finally over the past 5 years or so Thompson & Co have effectively 'killed off' any remaining 'enterprise' left, just to get an inflated pay-off/pension pot. [Not that I begrudge anyone getting themselves a decent pension - just not at the expense of everyone else!]

How can it possibly be "right" to close a building as iconic and purpose-built as TC, which they own, and then spend good money renting Salford floorspace to produce the crappy programmes which currently emanate from there!! I cannot see how Sport can manage without a London base (given the amount of 'major sporting events' - like the Olympics, Ascot, The Boat Race, Goodwood, Silverstone, etc) which take place "darn sarth") and without Breakfast guests in the studio (even my 93-year-old mother says how poor it has gotten!). It has all become so 'amateur', I'm sorry to say.

It's really a crying shame. http://www.ex-bbc.net/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/cry.gif

Title: Re: Going Hungry?
Post by HMG on Jul 4^th, 2012, 3:51am

Who needs a LONDON base when you can watch Breakfast (yesterday 3/7/2012) and in the whole 3 1/4 hours the only interviews etc in the studio were a couple of minutes from a family with a member with Dermentia, someone who had walked the Pennies and a pop group wanting to plug themselves. The remaing 3 hours (may be more) was a line up of phone ins with the presenters in Salford listening while they looked lost nodding into the camera and each other plus many, two ways with TVC and Westminster and stock footage looping every 30 seconds or so.
Can't wait for more! Breakfast from SALFORD is so exciting with all that local talent etc

Title: Re: Going Hungry?
Post by Mike Carter on Jul 4^th, 2012, 8:00am

Also saw Breakfast News yesterday, it was awful. I think there are two interesting questions to answer, how long will we have to wait for the relocation to take place - the beeb hate to look like they got it wrong don't they! Secondly who will be kicked out of New BH to make room for the relocation of Breakfast News.......?

Title: Re: Going Hungry?
Post by RobR on Jul 16^th, 2012, 7:03pm

I've all but given up on BBC Breakfast at weekends. It looks more and more like a regional news opt-out, featuring presenters I don't recognise, "expert" guests from the University of Salford and vox pops from Manchester shoppers.

I'm not anti-regional production (I'm a Geordie myself) but London is the home of BBC national news, and I remain unconvinced about the wisdom of this move north.