Television Centre, London
Television Centre (TVC), alternatively BBC Studioworks Television Centre, is a building complex in White City, West London, which was the headquarters of BBC Television between 1960 and 2013. After a refurbishment, the complex reopened in 2017 with three studios in use for TV production, operated by BBC Studioworks. The first BBC staff moved into the Scenery Block in 1953, and the centre was officially opened on 29 June 1960. It is one of the most readily recognisable facilities of its type, having appeared as the backdrop for many BBC programmes. Parts of the building are Grade II listed, including the central ring and Studio 1.
Television Centre in 2018
Television Centre when the BBC owned it, pictured in 2009
Television Centre during redevelopment in May 2015. The BBC blocks on the wall of TC1 were removed in September 2014.
Panoramic view of the centre of the building, showing the statue of Helios, the Greek god of the sun
White City is a district of London, England, in the northern part of Shepherd's Bush in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, 5 miles (8 km) west-northwest of Charing Cross. White City is home to Television Centre, White City Place, Westfield London and Loftus Road, the home stadium of Queens Park Rangers F.C. The district got its name from the white marble cladding used on buildings during several exhibitions when the area was first developed, between 1908 and 1914.
Shepherd's Bush railway station
Bird's eye view of part of the Franco-British Exhibition (1908)
Men of Kitcheners Army, stationed at White City, London, 24 November 1914
Westway flyover junction at Ladbroke Grove, looking east
