[QuadList] The Closing of BBC Television Centre

[Tony Quinn]

In message <FFA3B4F3C3534C9DB2AB9EF03B903BA2 at DavidVAIO>, David Dean 
<dixie at westpoint.tv> writes
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>Hi List
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>As some of you may already know BBC Television Centre in Wood Lane
>London has closed its doors for the last time, as a former employee
>there I have to say it bought a tear to my eye. In it?s Quad heyday
>there were at least 40 2? Quads there with VR 1200s, VR2000s, TR70s, 
>AVR2s, 1 AVR1 and a Slomo disk recorder.  This was my introduction to
>all this technology in the late 1970s working in the ?Television
>Recording Group? (Telecine and VT).
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>It has been sold to a property company for £200,000,000 although they
>are ?mothballing? 3 studios, one of which was the biggest tv studio in
>Europe. One comment I heard was if they took all the copper wiring out
>the place it would probably fall down, and cause a severe dip in the
>price of copper!! I for one will sadly miss the old place, I was there
>for 8 years and was proud to have worked in the building.

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