TVB City
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| TVB City | |
 Broadcasting Block |
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| Building Information | |
|---|---|
| Name | TVB City |
| Location | Hong Kong |
| Country | China |
| Architect | Gensler International and Leigh & Orange Architects |
| Engineer | Dragages et Travaux publics (HK) |
| Construction Start Date | March 8, 2000 |
| Completion Date | October 12, 2003 |
| Cost | 2.2 billion HKD |
TVB City (traditional Chinese: 電視廣播城; pinyin: diàn shì guǎng bō chéng), is the headquarters of Television Broadcasts Limited located at the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, nearby Shaw Studios. TVB is by far the biggest tenant of the estate and the first service-providing company in there.
The city officially opened in October 2007 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 headquarter, TV City, at Clearwater Bay. The facilities includes a 11-storey broadcasting center, workshops, a newsroom, a satellite antennae farm, 2 outdoor shooting sites and 22 production studios, of which "Studio 1" is one of the largest studio amongst all commercial television stations in Asia.
[edit] Reference
- Grand Opening of TVB City. TVB (12 October 2003). Retrieved on November 2007.
