BT Sport – studio construction videos

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Engineers install data cabling at the new BT Sport studio. Image: BT
Journalists attending the press launch for the new BT Sport channels were given a tour of the studios and production centre, but while we were able to look and ask questions, we were forbidden from taking pictures or filming.

Just five official pictures of the studios have been provided to the media by BT who want to unveil the finished complex in a blaze of publicity nearer the start of broadcasting.

Beyond saying the studios are impressively large – apparently the UK’s largest now TV Centre has shut down – and serviced by miles of cabling and enough server hardware to keep Skynet happy, pretty much everything is embargoed until the official unveiling.

But there is one gem we can share with you – looping on the production gallery’s monitors was a time-lapse video of the initial construction phases which BT has uploaded to YouTube:

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