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Well, if we're having a p*ing contest ... I know a number of people in film & TV myself. At least three of them have had national TV or radio credits in the last 6 months. One of them has a Bafta on his bookshelf.  |
and some of the people I know have Academy Awards on their bookshelves.... so what? I could go on and on and rattle down whom I know and have worked with,but I won't. You'd only lose that p-contest.
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It's nothing to do with who we know and what we do for a living though, is it? The BBC is part of the national infrastructure, and as such the issues at play are not confined to the business of TV and radio production.
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The BBC is a major player in the Entertainment World and respected everywhere. London is only second in the World when it comes Film and Tv Post-Production and FX Houses. All the Major Studios have offices there. I know a lot of big players in Tinsel-town have agents there. It is only natural that the BBC is in London,where else would they be?
and it being part of the National Infrastructure.... well,you don't build a massive Airport in the very North of Scotland so they get a bit of infrastructure too,do you?
London is one of the Entertainment Industry hubs in the world,why would the BBC not be there?
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ITV moved This Morning out of its original studio in Liverpool because of the well-understood difficulties of getting slebs out of London on a weekday morning. Oddly enough, however, the industry does not seem to have a comparable problem in the USA, where the traditional centres of film and TV production are separated by almost 2,500 miles and three time zones.
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No, NYC=Tv//LA=Film,although that is slowly changing with more Film coming to NYC and New England due to tax incentives and other investment.
Anyway you're comparing Apples and Oranges,since NYC and LA are both World Class Cities,accessible and second homes to most of the players in the Industry anyway. Heck,I know a good few up and coming UK actors who flit between NYC/LA and London all the time.
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The issue of people not wanting to travel out of London is a cultural one, caused by the issue you identify - London is a world city, which unfortunately means it eclipses everywhere else in the UK by some degree. What the move to Salford challenges is the notion that just because London is a world city, everything of importance must take place in it, or as near it as possible (in fact, Salford *is* very near it - have you looked at a map of the British Isles lately, and preferably not the BBC weather map which skews the view so the southeast looks about twice the size as the north?).
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No need to be condescending Chris,I know where Salford is on the British Isles and how far it is from London.
Tell you what though,have you ever had a look on the Entertainment Industry Map? I'm looking right now,can't find Salford though...
this has nothing to do with North/South divides.London is one of the Nerve centres of the Industry,and that won't change by moving the BBC to Salford.... it's just a fact of life.
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As a publicly-funded broadcaster, and one of the biggest broadcasters in the entire world, the BBC is in a position to challenge this metropolitan media laziness. The BBC is bigger than any of them, and it provides an unbeatable platform for their opinions, projects, vanity, whatever. Build it, and they'll come. They have no choice. It may take a while, but thanks to the licence fee the BBC has the luxury of time. Our whole economy needs rebalancing away from the southeast, and moving chunks of the BBC a stone's throw further up the island is an important contribution to that.
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Hm,I thought you were fiscally prudent,yet now you brag about how much money the Beeb has to throw away? Bigger than any of them? Yeah,thanks to all our money,so please let them be careful!
They'll come?Who''ll come? This reminds of the thread where you were convincing yourself that 3D won't be a success until the BBC said so.... it worked out anyway.
I agree that Infrastructure should be more evenly distributed,however the BBC isn't the centre of the entertainment world.... London is one of them. The Beeb has moved away from it and that's a shame.It needs to be at the pulse of Entertainment,Culture and World News,not on the fringes.
Or do you believe that everyone will pack up and move to Salford too cause the BBC is there?
The only reason the BBC moved is because the Labour government said so and Hazel Blears wanted that triumph for her constituents. Complete and utter tosh that move was,and no,they won't come ( at least not all of them) .