TVB City
| TVB City | |
|---|---|
 Broadcasting Block | |
| General information | |
| Town or city | Tai Chik Sha, Tseung Kwan O New Town, New Territories |
| 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 (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, Tai Chik Sha, Tseung Kwan O, New Territories, 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 an 11-storey broadcasting centre, workshops, a newsroom, a satellite antenna 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.
Facilities
- Outdoor Shooting Sites - features buildings for traditional Chinese town and generic early 20th century Hong Kong settings
- Workshop Block
- Main Block - along with Studio Road, it is often used as generic office building/hotel scenes for TVB's modern dramas
- Variety Studio Block - used for shooting variety and specials
- Drama Studio Block - used for shooting drama shows
- Satellite Antenna Farm
See also
References
- "Grand Opening of TVB City". TVB. 12 October 2003. Retrieved November 2007.
External links
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Coordinates: 22°16′45″N 114°16′21″E / 22.27917°N 114.27250°E