|
Vintage Television and Video Vintage television and video equipment, programmes, VCRs etc. |
|
Thread Tools |
12th Jul 2018, 6:24 pm | #1 |
Heptode
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Winchester, Hampshire, UK.
Posts: 639
|
ITV stuff for sale
Not too sure where to post this (?) Mods please move/delete as you think fit.
The first sale of all the equipment from ITV's studio headquarters on the SouthBank: http://www.go-dove.com/en/events?cmd...eid=eb8d87a692 |
13th Jul 2018, 5:56 pm | #2 |
Hexode
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany.
Posts: 368
|
ITV stuff for sale
Good evening!
Anybody hear who can explain why all this modern ITV stuff is now for sale? Close-down forever? https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...27#post1058327 Thanks, German Dalek
__________________
And now something completly different: MARC BOLAN, he was/is the real king of Pop Music! |
13th Jul 2018, 6:04 pm | #3 |
Heptode
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: West London, UK.
Posts: 867
|
Re: ITV stuff for sale
The ITV London Studios (London Televsion Centre) on the Southbank of the River Thames in London are being redeveloped.
Smaller studios will be provided in the new building. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9526 John |
13th Jul 2018, 7:21 pm | #4 |
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Oxford, UK
Posts: 27,967
|
Re: ITV stuff for sale
Yes, the studio complex is closing. TV production doesn't need these big multi camera dedicated studios nowadays, and they have been closing over the last 20 years. BBC Television Centre in London is the best known casualy closing in 2013, but the ITV companies used to have complexes in all the big British cities, and I think they're all gone now. South Bank Studios (ex LWT) may have been the last survivor.
|
13th Jul 2018, 11:31 pm | #5 |
Heptode
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Killamarsh, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK.
Posts: 746
|
Re: ITV stuff for sale
Yorkshire Television in Leeds is still present, and ITV still have presences in Anglia House in Norwich (thanks to a 99-year lease Anglia TV bought from Norwich City Council in 1959) and HTV West's Bristol studios. ITV only recently closed Ulster TV's Havelock house complex in Belfast, which has been open since 1959. And the Teddington Studios (formerly of Thames TV) and Fountain Studios in Wembley (LWT's first studio before Kent House opened) were closed and demolished within the past few years. However, I couldn't disagree more about the lack of studio space in London. Yes, it is true that more programmes are made using lightweight/OB equipment now, but production companies are crying out for studio space in London and this only makes a bad situation worse. That was partly why there was such an outcry when the BBC closed and flogged off TV Centre, which was still a perfectly useable and serviceable complex, even if the offices were not of much use anymore.
Now, there are just the three open studios at TV Centre (one of which is fully booked for ITV's Daytime programmes for the next few years), BBC Elstree (the former ATV studios) and Pinewood and Shepperton studios, amongst other smaller complexes dotted around London. Riverside Studios are officially open but are in the middle of being completely redeveloped. The total amount of studio floor space in London is less than half of what it was 2 or 3 years ago. |
14th Jul 2018, 7:32 am | #6 |
Heptode
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: West London, UK.
Posts: 867
|
Re: ITV stuff for sale
I guess the fact that Teddington Studios and Southbank Studios were by the River Thames made ideal sites for luxury apartments.
A few years ago there was a plan to put housing on Twickenham studios but they were saved and are still open. Sky TV at Isleworth have a large site some of it fairly new. John |
14th Jul 2018, 9:40 am | #7 | |
Heptode
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Winchester, Hampshire, UK.
Posts: 639
|
Re: ITV stuff for sale
Quote:
Towards the River Thames there will be a new block that will house the office staff and 3 small studios - all due to open in the early 2020's. Whilst lot of the kit on offer is newish, it is not 4k capable which is the direction the future production market is going. I would argue that large multi camera studios still are still needed, the London Studios was packed to the gunnels with productions year in year out and the complete closure came as a bit of a shock to the staff. |
|
14th Jul 2018, 10:49 am | #8 |
Heptode
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, UK.
Posts: 708
|
Re: ITV stuff for sale
Up in the gods of Studio One there is an old Eidephor video projector that got stuck there, which might be of interest to someone.
Studio One was like a factory churning out TV programmes- Blind Date one day- a sitcom the next-quiz shows the day after. Popular drama shows were expected to make 26 episodes a year- compared to the 5 or 6 we get now. Oh well expect more "24 hours in the life of a toilet attendant" type of show on the box in the future |
14th Jul 2018, 10:50 am | #9 |
Hexode
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Medway towns, Kent, UK.
Posts: 271
|
Re: ITV stuff for sale
I'm wondering if any of it would be useful to the BHTV gang up at Alexander Palace or would it be too new?
__________________
"Oh yes I love television, all those wiggly lines"! |
18th Jul 2018, 5:36 pm | #10 |
Triode
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Hatfield, Herts.
Posts: 22
|
Re: ITV stuff for sale
Thanks, Bob, but the kit is too modern.
|