[Swprograms] BBC opens bureau in NYC

[Joel Rubin <jmrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/292478p-250404c.html

BBC joining W. 33rd St. media hub

Daily News Exclusive


By PHYLLIS FURMAN
DAILY NEWS BUSINESS WRITER

Turn up the telly, the BBC is opening its first New York bureau.

The British broadcaster is moving to 450 W. 33rd St., where it will
sublease space from WNET/Ch.13, BBC execs told the Daily News
yesterday.

"This will be our journalistic base in New York," BBC New York bureau
chief Jeremy Hillman told The News.

Some 20 BBC workers are currently spread around a number of Manhattan
locations, including the Reuters building in Times Square.

They will begin moving to their new W. 33rd St. offices at the end of
this week.

The BBC is constructing a TV studio and two radio studios on the
seventh floor and will also make use of an existing studio and control
room on the sixth floor.

The building at 33rd St. and 10th Avenue once housed the Sky Rink on
its top floor, but has now become media central.

In addition to WNET and its sister station WLIW, it houses the Daily
News, U.S. News and World Report and The Associated Press, which moved
in last year.

"It's become a media hub," Hillman said.

Starting in June, the BBC will begin broadcasting its flagship
financial show, "World Business Report" from the new facility.

The program is seen in more than 200 countries around the world.

The new studio will also transmit segments of "BBC World News," the
nightly news program that airs at 6 p.m. on Channel 13 that is
anchored by Tanya Beckett.

The move means the BBC and WNET are likely to cooperate on more
programs.

The two already co-produce foreign affairs and news shows like the
international documentary series "Wide Angle."

Originally published on March 23, 2005


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