| TVB City | |
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Broadcasting Block |
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| General information | |
| Town or city | Tseung Kwan O New Town |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Construction started | March 8, 2000 |
| Completed | October 12, 2003 |
| Cost | 2.2 billion HKD |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Gensler International and Leigh & Orange Architects |
| Structural engineer | Dragages et Travaux publics (HK) |
TVB City (simplified chinese=电视广播城;Chinese: 電視廣播城; Cantonese Yale: din si gwong bo sing), is the headquarters of Television Broadcasts Limited, located at 77 Chun Choi Street in the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, near to Shaw Studios. TVB is by far the biggest tenant of the estate and the first service-providing company in there.
The city officially opened on January 1, 2005 and was constructed at a cost of HK$$2.2 billion. It was designed to cope with future development and expansion, especially for digital television production.
TVB City has a building area of over 110,000 square metres, 30% more than that the old headquarters, TV City, at Clearwater Bay. The facilities includes a 11-storey broadcasting centre, workshops, a newsroom, a satellite antennae farm, two outdoor shooting sites and 22 production studios, of which "Studio 1" is one of the largest studio amongst all commercial television stations in Asia.
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