Television Centre, Euro City

Television Centre (TVC) is a building complex in Wellex, Euro City, and has been the headquarters of EuroMedia’s Euro Republics TV outlets since 1992.

Most of TV3's national television and radio news output come from Television Centre, and in later years most recorded television was output from the nearby Broadcast Centre at 201 Wood Lane, care of 3Broadcast. Live television events from studios and routing of national and international sporting events take place within Television Centre.

EuroMedia moved out of TVC for redevelopment in February 2013, moving to a new complex east of the city, but moved back in May 2017. A new studio complex, with 8 stages, was built, along with a refurbished, more colourful & post-modern design.

Current studios
All studios were usually abbreviated to initials, such as S1 (Stage 1) & TC1 (Television Centre 1).

Before closure for redevelopment, the studios hosted a wide variety of TV programmes for a range of broadcasters, including Dancing With The Stars, Sunrise, Big Brother, 3 National News.

Studio 0
Opened in 1995 as a music & continuity studio, with what would later become Studio 12 as its control room; Productions included for FOX and during its later life was equipped for producing virtual reality programmes. It was home to Liquid News between 2001 and 2005 and The Fix in vision continuity between 2005 and 2010. Nowadays, the studio is used for FOX in-vision continuity.

Studio 1
Opened on 15 April 1992 and is the largest television studio in the countey (8,900 square feet) with audience seating for 700, making it popular for live programmes, and was equipped for HDTV production in 2003. It has been considered the best studio for light entertainment programmes. Studio 1 is the home of shows including ER Idol, Late Live with Paul Egan, Sat:AM, Top Of The Pops Euro Republics, 3C's Blue Awards and Absolute Chaos.

Studio 2
Opened in late 1994, it housed comedy programmes such as We Know About You. It was not initially converted to HD and closed in 2003, with the space being used as storage, but reopened in 2009. It had audience seating of 500, despite many shows filmed there not having one. It was used by TV4 News until they moved in 2015, and has played host to a wide variety of programmes. It was the main studio used for 3C's quiz show The Question for Series 3 (2017) & 4 (2018). Studio 2 is currently the home of the The Crowd Goes Wild for Prime, Sunday With Hartman and Sunrise on Saturday for TV3.

Studio 3
Opened on 29 June 1994, it was designed as a drama studio and had customised panels and fittings. It was the first studio to be completed and was upgraded to HD in late 2002. Studio 3 currently broadcasts TV3 programmes Sunrise and Sunrise Extra. It was one of two studios that hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, the other being Studio 4.

Studio 4
Opened in January 2003, Studio 4 is a large studio with no audience, allowing room for at least two shows at the same time. Originally used for ZTV in-vision continuity links, it later became the home of Big Brother's Little Brother & The Xtra Factor, until they both moved in 2014. Toonattik on 3C moved to Studio 4 in 2013. Telly Tots on 3C/The Fix used the studio from 2009-2013.

Studio 5
Opened in 1967, considered the best studio for television producers to use. It has the size that most programmes want and, building on the experience when building the other studios, is the best. The galleries and studio are laid out perfectly and in a layout producers liked. It became the studio for comedy and sitcoms, because of its audience seating arrangements and size. It was converted to HD in March 2004.

Studio 6
Opened in September 1997, it was used for Newsnight on Channel 4. In 2005 it became home to Liquid News and later to the other ZTV news programmes. It briefly played host to the domestic TV3 bulletins while their studios were refurbished in 2006, before becoming general purpose.

Studio 7
Opened in October 1998. It was the first to be equipped with HD cameras. It was a strange design: it was originally designed to be split in two by a large removable wall, but this idea was abandoned. The gallery was moved in 2002. Upgraded to HD in July 2003, and upgraded to 3D in 2006.

Studio 8
Opened in 1998 and was used for a variety of programmes, it originally housed children's programmes such as Toonattik before becoming the home of 3 News in 2013.

Programmes recorded or transmitted include:


 * 3 News
 * Morning Report With James White
 * Afternoon Report
 * Frontline
 * The Rundown
 * Rundown Sports
 * Hartman On Sunday
 * Euro Republics Today
 * The John Shepard Show
 * The Nightly Update
 * Toonattik
 * Telly Tots (2002-2006 version)
 * The Film Show