http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...c-goodbye.html
Next month is the last month from which the BBC will broadcast from Television Centre. There will be a last broadcast called 'Goodbye Television Centre' which will show highlights and comments from people who've made their shows and careers there. Comic Relief will be the last entertainment program made there and the resignation of the Pope will the last live news event.
Some of the people on the special:
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Sir David Attenborough
Penelope Keith
Ronnie Corbett
Sir Michael Parkinson
Jeremy Paxman
Noel Edmonds
Sir Terry Wogan
Mark Lawson
Sir David Jason
Zoe Ball
Philip Schofield
Gary Lineker
Chris Hollins
Bob Harris
Fiona Bruce
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I still think it was a bad idea to leave it. There isn't a problem with moving more activities around the country and in Salford but moving some of them, especially live programs, was very stupid. As expected BBC Breakfast and some of the radio programs like 5 Live which broadcast from Manchester have struggled more to get guests because whilst you can move presenters and technology up north that doesn't mean the guests will move with you. Instead they just use video or audio links back to London.
Worse though is just chucking away the history involved. It's nice that big live events come 'live from BBC Television Centre'. When there are General Election nights the idea of it coming from the same place as it has for the last 50 years is nice. The traditional fireworks and stuff from Comic Relief or Children in Need that have Television centre as a back drop. When new comics are creating new shows in the same halls where Monty Python made their shows.
You can modernise the organisation and the facilities but you don't need to lose everything, it's nice to have some sense of history rooted in the location or building. We wouldn't really think of moving Parliament to some new, modern, glass building (although I guess we probably would
).