PRINCESS ALEXANDRA will today see one of the world’s most up-to-date television studio complexes when she formally opens Birmingham’s ATV Centre.
Well over £2m spent on equipping for colour
A MASSIVE capital outlay has gone into equipping the studios at ATV Centre for full colour operation. For colour is costly. Each of the 12 colour cameras used In the studios cost £17,500. A videotape machine (and ATV has six of them in Birmingham) costs around £60,000. In all, ATV has spent well over £2m […]
Exported hit shows have won two Queen’s Awards
From the noble deeds of Robin Hood in the 1950s to the frenetic gyrations of Tom Jones in the 1970s, the story of ATV programmes has been one of success.