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BBC Salford move

March 2024

  • Heidi Dawson inside the control suite for Studio 11, at Quay House, Salford.

    ‘Know your audience’: BBC 5 Live chief on the station’s staying power

    On 5 Live’s 30th birthday, Heidi Dawson says more of the BBC should be based outside London to reflect the national conversation

August 2017

  • Peter Preston

    Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
    An enforced move to Brum will cost Channel 4 dear

    Peter Preston
  • Channel 4 headquarters in London.

    Channel 4 move will not give major boost to new home, warns thinktank

July 2016

  • Sarah Lancashire as Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley.

    Media interview
    Happy Valley producer: Gritty north? ‘I get very cross about that phrase’

    Red Productions founder Nicola Shindler on making drama from Manchester which shows humour and warmth

November 2015

  • John Sessions actor and comic

    BBC ‘lost its marbles’ by deciding to move to Manchester, says John Sessions

    Actor says ‘money monopolising’ culture of management led to decision to relocate to Salford and means there is less cash for programme making

August 2015

  • Thomond. MANCHESTER, 13th November 2014 - MediaCity UK skyline at dusk. The apartments, office and studio complex at Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, is home to Salford University, BBC, ITV, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and The Lowry arts centre. Peel Holdings.

    BBC radio stations failing northern listeners, report says

    Trust report says Radio 4 and 5 have become even more skewed to audiences in the south-east of England despite departments moving to Salford

July 2015

  • Peter Salmon

    Media interview
    BBC’s Peter Salmon: ‘Where do you want me to be? Milton Keynes?’

    The new head of BBC Studios urges Channel 4 to relocate north and explains why he never moved to Salford

December 2014

  • Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid in Last Tango in Halifax.

    BBC claims viewers in north of England think they are now better represented

    Peter Salmon, BBC England director, says programmes such as Last Tango in Halifax have helped raise corporation’s profile in the region

November 2014

  • Blue Peter

    BBC children’s department may move to commercial production subsidiary

    Tony Hall’s ‘compare and compete’ strategy could see section follow Panorama in being produced by stand-alone subsidiary NewCo

October 2014

  • The BBC now has 2,834 posts in Salford and the north, or 17% of its workforce

    BBC now has more staff outside London than in the capital

    Corporation has hits target set in 2004, with 8,169 based in capital after relocation of more than 2,000 posts to Salford. By Chris Johnston

July 2014

  • Victoria Derbyshire

    BBC Radio 5 Live under fire for lack of female presenters in new line-up

    Victoria Derbyshire and Shelagh Fogarty among stars departing, leaving only one weekly show solely fronted by a woman. By John Plunkett

December 2013

  • MediaCity

    BBC spends £1.3m on flights to and from Manchester

    Cost of rail travel for more than 100 managers has also risen since relocation to MediaCity in Salford Quays. By Mark Sweney

November 2013

  • Question Time

    Media Monkey
    David Dimbleby's wish comes true

    Media Monkey: The Question Time presenter has been waxing lyrical about cutting back at the BBC … well there's no place like home to start

June 2013

  • Mark Thompson at MediaCityUK

    BBC accused of misleading parliament over 'catastrophic' digital media project

    MPs say evidence given by senior management in 2011 'just wasn't true' as £98.4m cost of 'embarrassing' failure is revealed

May 2013

  • BBC Salford

    BBC Salford's £24m relocation costs were too generous, says watchdog

    NAO says there were inadequate controls on exemptions to corporation's policies, but move was generally well handled. By Mark Sweney

March 2013

  • BBC Television Centre - exterior

    Television Centre sale draws fire from BBC stars in tribute programme

    David Mitchell, Danny Baker and Michael Parkinson, among others, say sale of studios should have sparked an outcry. By John Plunkett

January 2013

  • BBC North advert

    Media Monkey
    BBC ad reveals a few home truths about Peter Salmon

  • BBC boosts Britain’s economy by £8bn, new report claims

    BBC boosts Britain's economy by £8bn, new report claims

August 2012

  • BBC Radio 5 live Presenters

    The Northerner
    Sheffield wins Radio 5 Live's Octoberfest

    Success of Tramlines and Sheftival leads to another three days of this, that and everything else in the capable hands of the station from Salford

May 2012

  • Media Monkey
    BBC North: Media City is no Vice City

    Media Monkey: Corporation's crime stats fall despite move to Salford
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