Roger Bunce, a long-time cameraman, recently had the following letter published in the esteemed publication- "Private Eye":-


Sir -      Your Media News correspondent (5th April) is correct when he states that the main studios at BBC TV Centre were already equipped for high-definition, widescreen, digital broadcasting. However, he seem to have been unaware that one of them, Studio 6, was also equipped for 3-D. This means means that Television Centre was one of the most technologically advanced studio complexes in the world. It also means that the official reasons for selling the building are a pack of lies.
     The BBC’s abandonment of TV Centre is an act of architectural, cultural and historical vandalism, comparable with bulldozing of the Royal Opera House, the Palladium and the Albert Hall simultaneously. It has also been a financial disaster. Only £200 million were gained from the sale, while a minimum of £1.8 billion has already been squandered on moving BBC productions to substitute premises, of vastly inferior design. The Licence Fee Payers, who owned Television Centre, and are now expected to pay the bill, were never consulted. The decision was taken by a clique of out-of-touch bureaucrats, who have now left, clutching generous ‘rewards for failure’. Yet the destruction that they have started blunders on.
     May I, through your pages, call for a Public Inquiry into how this mismanagement occurred, and what can now be done to minimise the continuing damage.
     Roger Bunce.

     (Long-time BBC Cameraman.)