It is simply the most famous radio centre in the world – Broadcasting House, in the heart of London’s west end.Recently refurbished, the studios used by media mentor are the BBC’s flagship studios. On the top floor of Broadcasting House, equipped for Radio 4’s factual output such as Loose Ends, with accommodation for large panel discussions and even live music, studios 80A and 80B are technically the most advanced in the UK.
It is quite true to say that you can feel the presence of legendary broadcasters as you sit in one of the very few places that deserve the description “a centre of excellence”.
You’ve seen it so often on the news. Politicians sweating under the incisive interrogation of Mark Austin from “our Westminster Studio”. Wouldn’t you like to stand there and do the same? That’s what we offer at the ITV Millbank complex, with two studios fully crewed with a news director, a news crew on the green, and the unbeatable experience of being trained in a live working news centre.
STV (Scottish Television) moved into its new studios in the redeveloped waterfront of Glasgow just a few months ago. For Scottish clients, the experience of using the actual news studio they see on television every night, sitting at the presenter’s desk, is unbeatable. This is the real thing – a working TV news studio in the centre of Scotland’s busiest television newsgathering operation.
When we move out, the stations’ main news programme Scotland Today moves in – and we watch from the control gallery behind the scenes as the fast paced coverage is put together with correspondents reporting live from right across Scotland and edited reports are completed seconds before transmission.
When the BBC moved out of Pebble Mill in Birmingham they built the biggest, the best equipped network studio complex outside of London.
We're lucky to be one of the companies that books radio studio facilities at the BBC's Manchester headquarters. And it's true that the vibrancy and confidence that has always marked out Manchester’s television and radio programme makers seems to rub off on our clients when they walk through the doors of the BBC here.
You'll be able to use the studios that play host to Mark Radcliffe’s regular Radio 2 programme, or Radio 4’s consumer programme You And Yours which is regularly broadcast from here. You may even find yourself sitting where Sir Paul McCartney spent many long hours working on a Beatles retrospective.
“I thought Paul and his phone-in colleagues were excellent interviewers and brought a sense of reality to the event. Really excellent.”
“Excellent day – Paul was helpful and for me in particular has helped build my confidence”
