[QuadList] The Closing of BBC Television Centre

[David Crosthwait]

David,

I and the other alumni from NBC Burbank know exactly what you are feeling. On December 31, 2012, we saw another chapter come to a close in NBC's vacating it's Burbank facilities (the closing of the videotape department, one time host to 32 quad machines). A new landlord runs the lot now as GE sold the property a few years ago. 

What started as a new building in 1954 with a sign...



became just a faded memory!


And so it goes.

Best Regards,

David Crosthwait
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On Mar 25, 2013, at 6:49 AM, David Dean wrote:

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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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