I heard that ITV had bought Television Centre for there use??? - Shame it's being taken down with all that history 🙁🚂🚂🚂

TVC….. worked there over a 6 month period back in 1990…. Such a shame….

I thought it was being used by I.T.V breakfast t.v.

TV Centre Studios is actually the HQ of the BBC's Commercial Arm BBC Studios Ltd. BBC sold TV Centre to Stanhope for £200m. TV Centre cost the BBC £10m to build. That's some profit.

How on earth was this allowed to be demolished? Surely it should have come under the same iconic category as the façade of Highbury or the pillars of Battersea power station. It could surely have become a shopping centre, offices or apartments or something, but at least the building itself would still have been there for future generations to see something that was an iconic part of fifty years of British history. Instead, in fifty years from now, you can guarantee that people who care about the past will lament how crazy it was for our generation to allow this building to be lost.

Oh no! Childhood memories - a place I always wanted to go to.... AND they filled in the Italian Sunken Garden!

So symbolic of the way the BBC has gone of late.

I thought ITV Bought it.

The sooner the current WOKE BBC is gone the better. Sad that they allowed that to happen to such an iconic building. Another reason why I don't watch their garbage anymore. Come into the 21st Century and be a subscription service...oh wait, you'd probably be bankrupt within 2 years, you leeches.

It's so sad that such an iconic building is being demolished. I have happy memories of working in room 4198, Subtitling, between 1999 and 2002. The Blue Peter garden was still very much alive back then, with fish in the pond. TVC was a magical place.

I did the tour one year, very sad to see it go

Thanks for the memories!

Thought the building would be kept & made into luxury accommodation & restaurants !

I spent countless hours working in this building, it was a joy to be there. What a dreadful, shameful waste to simply let it go like this. Oh well... we have the memories...

Always used to marvel at that building from the outside whenever I came up to white city from Brixton, as my girlfriend and future wife lived in the estate not far from there. It seemed to be a magical place, but I never ever set foot inside. When I studied as a TV repair engineer, we had a day trip there, but I was absent for some reason I don't remember.

As if the BBC needed anymore dismantling! This is an utterly disgusting act. I had no idea this was going to be the fait of this iconic building. How television centre wasn't listed is beyond me. Such a sad end.

Astounded that this isn’t a protected building

I worked there for a few weeks in the early 90s. I was sure I saw the Blue Peter garden. Couldn’t remember how I saw it. Now I know. Meal times at Restaurant!

Why does everything seem to be moved upto Manchester. Granada Television as it was, already controls ITV, all the the independent companies that were are now gone. I used to enjoy driving past the Television Centre when I worked down Scrubs Lane back in the 1990's. Now it's all trendy housing and restaurants. All gone!

This was simply a pure act of absolute, total, CRIMINALITY brought about by the bean counters who knew f-all about TV and its heritage. Although I'm Manchester born and bred and worked my whole career of 50+ years for the Beeb, Salford Quays will NEVER EVER be the 'home' of the BBC as we once knew it. It will ALWAYS be Wood Lane in London. Shame on you ☹

Luxury Apartments now!😊

Sounds like you cornered him, lol. Like many people I thought he was brilliant on swap shop, he had the right skills for being put on the spot and working with kids and the British weather he would have his hands full but always smiling, always laughing and sounding excited to be there. I never missed Cheggers Plays Pop, can’t you imagine getting all those acts to perform on a kids show now, how lucky we were and a good spread of music too.

How strange... I worked at TV Centre many times but the last time was in the dying days. I loved the place. Not just the quirky and beautifully strange building, but the atmosphere and the ethos. It really was very special. On my last day I took myself on a photographic tour, recording memories of what was by then a tragic, mostly empty ghost of its former self. Because so few people were left I was able to access all kinds of previously out of bounds areas, - everything from the staff canteen kitchen, to the basement storage areas, the news room and even the studios themselves. I got lots of great photos... And yesterday, after not having thought about TVC for a long time, I got a strong pang of nostalgia (not a feeling I am prone to) and a great urge to look through those pics again. It was as bittersweet as ever... Then today, this video is reommended to me! As I said, very strange...

Destroy all the evidence hey

Spent 12 happy years working at TVC, first in VTR and then News. It was an act of "cultural vandalism" to demolish Television Center.... such happy memories.

Brought the uk down with it.🪦

Do you know which of the studios Top of the Pops in the 1970s was filmed in?

Very upsetting, grew up it was the magic factory. Terrible crime to leave it and go to Manchester. Never been the same. Even worse ITV now use it,

ITV owns the television centre now

Despise some of the evils that happened in that building, it made a lot of history & memories for a lot of people that will never be recreated, it helped produce some of the best television shows the UK has ever experienced in the 80s & 90s from all of the Totp shows, Bottom, The Young Ones, Red Dwarf, The two Ronnies, Blue Peter with their life boat appeals , Anther Turner building Tracey island & Allo Allo! With Rene Artois with the fallen Madonna & of course not forgetting Ofah, Bonjour.

Now there really is nothing left of the BBC worth talking about.

Every year, at the end of the last Blue Peter before Christmas, the band of the Chalk Farm Branch of The Salvation Army marched in through the big scenery loading doors, playing carols as the last candle on the 'advent crown' was lit by Val (Singleton), Pete (Purves) or, of course, John (Noakes). Happy days, indeed - and now I'm almost sixty!! 😄

How sad is this???!! Another iconic part of the London skyline gone. Tragic.

Yeah, think of all the illegal stuff that went on in there, Saville, Glitter, and Rolf Harris. Good riddance

Iconic building. I thought they had turned some of it into flats. So sad

Absolute madness moving out of there.

7:35 I didn't know anyone apart from Panasonic did DVCPRO. It was an unreliable format. I would love to play with that camera and I probably have a lens for it.

The BBC is but a pale shadow of its former self. Riddled with the cancer of cultural Marxism, it's now in terminal decline. Let this destruction be symbolic of the complete amputation of what has become "the ministry of truth". This whole decaying Orwellian carcass is animated only by the ideological maggots feverishly pushing the message onto an ever more savvy yet weary populace. Let's celebrate the great years we had with aunty, and they were indeed great. It's time to let her go.

I was a Police Officer in Wales in 1982 and met a BBC news crew sound engineer during a party conference. He had so much down time that he began collecting police memorabilia as a hobby.. he offered me some tickets for a show if I gave him a badge from my uniform.. I upped the ante and offered him a genuine police helmet for a trip around this building.. he jumped at the chance. I sent him the 'goods' and I had a great Saturday mornings tour.. went to lots of places that 'normal people' didn't have access to.. met lots of faces I recognised 'from the telly'.. great memories.. RIP Mike Hillman. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Can’t believe that it wasn’t listed, all about 🏦🏦I suppose

Ah no! End of an era. All the original tv filming studios have gone now I think? 😢❤ Thanks for showing this.

Fascinating video. Are the main studios where they recorded Blake's 7, I Claudius and Dr Who being demolished too?

Comedy & Entertainment? Well not a lot has happened in there for a couple of decades!

No doubt another expensive luxury block of flats to go there.

I worked for BBC News between 2000 and 2010 and even during those years the amount of actual TV produced there was minimal. On a night shift it was interesting to see the floor painting going on. I used to work on the 7th floor and then had a desk and a workshop space in the control room above the tiny studios 12 and 13 neither of which were ever used whilst I was there. I used to support the on line servers and then the red button news services that was £4,500,000 of equipment and then I also got to support the streaming news content. And then they screwed me forcing me to resign. I would never ever trust the BBC.

Really sad to see all the things left behind there. A huge waste of a once great building too, that could of made a fantastic visitor attraction with the amount of people who will of worked or visited there who would love to return one day. The BBC now a shadow of what it was. I remember passing by years ago and thinking how I would love to go inside one day and see where all those great programmes were made.

When I was a boy in 1986 I ended up on a CBBC game show called Secret's Out. The visit stayed with me for ever and was very sad at TVC's sale and decommissioning. I remember ringing main switch and asking for room 3305. I'm an engineer now and even then I wanted to look at the TX technology.

No doubt the Daily Mail paid for the diggers

Totally unnecessary. They never needed to relocate to Manchester and nobody at the corporation wanted to go. Cultural vandalism

Hope all the office equipment is not going to be trashed