BBC's live move

IN Media Watch Briefs | 15/01/2013

It was an office move that was shown live. On Jan 14 BBC TV moved to its new premises at IST 5.30 pm as Nic Gowing handed over from the Television Centre in White City to George Alagiah in the new central London office. Earlier BBC radio had moved from the famous Bush House to the same premises and the digital segments too have done the same. All of BBC London (around 4500) employees will be housed in one centre for the first time. While a BBC reporter took us on a virtual tour of the hi-tech glitzy new newsrooms , Alagiah posed the million pound question from the anchor desk :"How will all this improve our journalism?" The Jimmy Saville episode has dented the network's reputation.

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