New Broadcasting House, Manchester
New Broadcasting House (NBH) was the BBC's North West England headquarters on Oxford Road in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester. The studios housed BBC Manchester, BBC North West, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Religion and Ethics department. It was known as a Network Production Centre, the others being in Birmingham (the now also demolished Pebble Mill Studios) and Broadcasting House, Bristol.
This article is about the BBC's former facilities in Manchester. For the new extension to Broadcasting House, London, see Broadcasting House.New Broadcasting House
Television and radio studios
Precast concrete panels, with bronze-tinted solar-heat-rejecting glass
Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ
July 1975
18 June 1976
2012
BBC
5.4 acres (1.66 ha)
Reinforced concrete structure
6
30,400 m (99,738 ft)
R. A. Sparks[1]
BBC Architectural and Civil Engineering Department
Haden Young
D. G. Nimmy
Acousticians – Sandy Brown Associates[2]
Mechanical Services – Building Design Partnership
New Broadcasting House was vacated during autumn 2011 when the departments were relocated to MediaCityUK outside of central Manchester in Salford Quays. The building was demolished in 2012.[3]