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Read more about the construction of BBC Broadcasting House on the About the BBC blog.
The refurbuished original foyer (not yet re-opened) of BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place/Langham Place, London taken on Christmas Day 2005 (Hence no traffic)
He is planting a rice nursery. These seedling will later be transplanted onto the surrounding fields. Warangal Dist., A.P., India.
Communications Minister Nomvula Mokonyane addresses the Broadcasting Digital Migration Colloquium in Bloemfontein, Free State (Photo: GCIS)
Leeds Metropolitan University Broadcasting Tower
Dropped my daughter and her friends off for a look around Leeds Metropolitan University's open day, swish student accommodation.
Leeds Met University tower voted 'world's best'
Out of this world public domain images from NASA. All original images and many more can be found from the NASA Image Library
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: www.rawpixel.com/board/418580/nasa
You can't quite see from this angle, but the screen displaying colour bars is a big circular LED strip. It's mounted on the ceiling of the double-height newsroom.
NHK meets Deep Space 8K offers a glimpse into the joint research project between the Ars Electronica Futurelab and NHK, Japan’s largest public broadcasting organization. They joined forces in 2017 to examine how 8K, the next generation of ultra-high definition TV technology, can be incorporated into daily life. The innovative broadcasting giant had already started creating and using 8K footage on a trial basis a year earlier, providing a resolution 16 times higher than Hi-Vision to its audience.
Credit: Magdalena Sick-Leitner
Radio Technician Jens Christian Seeberg giving instructions to a local employee.
The Far East Broadcasting is a major radio station with more than 100 employees broadcasting to several countries language areas and important for training of local radio technicians.
Photographer: Michael Dam
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International Mission Photography Archive
Photographs of the Danmission, Copenhagen, Denmark
DVB and WorldDAB workshops
ABU DBS 2018
5-8 March 2018
Royal Chulan Kuala Lumpur
Copyright Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. Please credit accordingly.
Leeds Metropolitan University Broadcasting Tower
Dropped my daughter and her friends off for a look around Leeds Metropolitan University's open day, swish student accommodation.
Leeds Met University tower voted 'world's best'
Try as we might, we can't forget "Unchained Melody" as sung by Jim. He was on happenin' Radio One when I took this photograph.
The new entrance to Broadcasting house with the original building on the left, the second phase, now called The John Peel Wing on the right and phase three with the new studios right ahead.
Broadcasting House is currently undergoing a major renovation, aiming to restore the original building and combine a number of the BBC's operations in a newly built extension. Upon completion, the building will house the television and radio operations of BBC News which would relocate from Television Centre; the BBC World Service, relocating from Bush House, and BBC Radio, with the exception of BBC Radio 5 Live and its sister station 5 Live Sports Extra.
To make way for the renovation, BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music moved from Broadcasting House to newly built studios in the nearby Western House, with the intention of returning to Broadcasting House when the lease runs out in 2013.[6]
The building work was completed in two phases, however it began with the demolition of two post-war extensions to the building
The first phase consisted of the restoration of the original building, by now starting to show its age and needing structural repair, and the building of a new wing to the east of the original structure.[7]
In the old building, the sloped east roof was taken off, and many of the rooms stripped back to their walls, although much of the Art Deco architecture was retained and preserved. Much of the work focused on the lower walls and ceilings which did not feature Art Deco architecture. The reception area was renovated to include a new desk, while retaining the message and statue as the attention piece of the room. Many rooms had ceilings removed, such as the south tower, and new reinforcement joists were added.
The new Egton wing was roughly the same shape as the main Broadcasting House building, featuring a modern design and window arrangement, but retaining some features such as the Portland stone used for the building. Towards the rear of the building, a large block was created in the side, mirroring that created in the main building, when the sloping roof was removed.
The design of the new extension, intended to equal in "architectural creativity" that already on site was carried out by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard. Construction was completed in 2005 and the newly refurbished Broadcasting House, and the newly completed Egton wing were opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20 April 2006 as part of her 80th birthday celebrations.[8] All areas of the Egton Wing were fully fitted out and completed by 2007.
In 2012, the newly constructed wing was renamed from the former Egton wing, after the building on the previous site, to the John Peel wing, after the Radio 1 DJ of the same name. The decision was announced by the Director-General Mark Thompson as a means of commemorating a "great radio talent".
The second phase of the project was the creation of a huge wing to the rear of the building, joining the two buildings, and creating a plaza between them. It is this extension that will contain the BBC News and Journalism departments. The new building will contain state of the art technical equipment and new studios to house the BBC News bulletins on television, the BBC News Channel as well as BBC World News, the BBC Arabic Television service and the BBC Persian Television service. At the heart of this is a new, pillarless newsroom, the largest live newsroom in the world.[8]
A walkway above the newsroom would also allow the public to view the work of journalists, while connecting the foyer to the Radio Theatre and a new café for staff and the public. This, complemented by the outdoor plaza, which could act as an outdoor arena and theatre, is designed to engage the public with the television and radio making process.[8]
The construction work was completed by Bovis Lend Lease.[10]
The original architects were sacked and replaced by the BBC for not agreeing to cost-related revisions as Sir Richard MacCormac was unwilling to sacrifice the quality of his design.[11] While the rebuilding process was underway, many of the BBC Radio stations moved to other buildings near Portland Place. The extension is glass covered in the plaza area and curved to contrast both wings either side and to continue the glass found on both sides high up the building. On the Portland Place side, it continues the same use of Portland stone and glass seen in Egton wing. Construction work was completed in 2010, with control handed over to the BBC in 2011. The building is now being fitted out with the required technical equipment.
A historic marker describes the history of the decommissioned Voice Of America Relay station in Bethany, Ohio
Building in progress on the new BBC Media City, opposite the Imperial War Museum. This is a long exposure using a dark ND filter to get a smoother reflection in the water.
The vignette isn't artificial this time: it's the result of using the ND filter with a wide angle and a narrow aperture.
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We had a fabulous time at Public Service Broadcasting's last live show of their UK tour in Cambridge last night! Brilliant audio-visual mixed media presentation, great sound and a good mix of tracks from their four albums to date. As they came on , four guys dressed in identical white suits, and launched into LichtSpiel from their new "Berlin period" album, it was hard to remember that this was not Kraftwerk, but PSB! Indeed, PSB are doing now what Kraftwerk should have done ten years ago.
Being a bit of a laser junkie myself, I was sad not to see Aussie Floyd earlier this week, but PSB more than made up for it with a great light show.