Sky Campus
TV studio and office complex in England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sky Studios (also known as Sky Campus) is the headquarters of satellite broadcaster Sky, and home to much of its programming output.[1] The Isleworth campus consists of nine buildings plus ancillary structures, with three of those buildings containing television studios. The site is also a playout centre for many of Sky's channels.
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Sky Campus | |
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Alternative names | Osterley TVC Sky Centre Sky News Centre |
General information | |
Status | Operational |
Type | Offices and television studios |
Address | Grant Way, Isleworth |
Country | England |
Coordinates | 51.487°N 0.327°W / 51.487; -0.327 |
Current tenants | Sky News Sky Sports |
Construction started | 1989 |
Client | Sky |
Owner | Sky Group (Comcast) |
Design and construction | |
Architecture firm | Arup (Sky Studios) |
Quantity surveyor | Gleeds / Davis Langdon (Sky Studios) |
Main contractor | Bovis (Sky Studios) |
There are ten conventional television studios on site, alongside a number of galleries, purpose-built studios for news and sports news broadcasting, and post-production facilities.[2] A number of the studios are available for independent production companies to hire.[3]
Sky Sports, Sky Sports News and Sky News all use the studios, alongside light entertainment shows such as Thronecast, Skavlan and Harry Hill's Tea Time. Previously it has been the home of shows such as Brainiac: Science Abuse.[4]