Broadcasting House

New Broadcasting House comes alive

A new chapter in the history of BBC Broadcasting House got underway in March 2012.

On Sunday 11 March the BBC’s Burmese Service became the first programme to broadcast live from the new Broadcasting House. This marked the start of the BBC World Service's move from Bush House, its London home for over 70 years, to a new state of the art, multimedia broadcasting centre in the heart of the capital.

In March, the doors of the Media Café were opened to our Radio Theatre audiences. This new purpose-built facility will now be used on a regular basis for our audiences to enjoy some refreshments and relax before watching a BBC show in the Radio Theatre.

In another historic first, the walls came down between old Broadcasting House, the neighbouring New Broadcasting House and the recently re-named John Peel Wing (in memory of the late Radio 1 DJ), to create one Broadcasting House. Now one building, this heralds the start of the single biggest migration ever undertaken in the BBC, as 6,000 staff from the BBC’s Television, Radio, News and Online services come together for the first time under one roof.