Thursday, March 12, 2009

Quay, not Quays, for ITV in Manchester

The Guardian reports a blow for the ambitions of MediaCity, Salford Quays. ITV "in the North West" has decided to stay where it is in Quay Street, Manchester; Quay Street will also get more work with the closure of the Leeds Studios.

ITV are claiming the Peel Group, MediaCity developers, started reducing incentives to move to Salford. An anchor element of MediaCity is a tv studio block, designed to be used by the BBC, ITV and or/indies. It has four tv studios of varying sizes, and a performance space for the Philharmonic. Now the Peel business model has to make it pay with just the BBC and any indies with contracts as customers.....

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