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The London Studios or The South Bank Studios (also known as The London Television Centre and Kent House) in Waterloo, Central London is a television studio complex formerly owned by London Weekend Television. The studios are located in Central London and are situated on the South Bank next to The IBM Building and the Royal National Theatre. The building is set on 2.5 acres of land and is 24 floors high. The facilities are the main studios for ITV, along with a number of production companies including ITV Studios and Shiver based in Kent House tower, while the studios are currently home to many entertainment, game and daytime shows. These include ''Good Morning Britain'', ''The Graham Norton Show'', ''Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway'' and ''The Jonathan Ross Show''. The studios are also used for other programmes from various other channels including BBC and Channel 4. The Met Office weather studios which provide national weather forecasts are also based at The London Studios, as well as ITV Creative who promote programmes on the ITV network. ==History== When LWT succeeded ATV for the London weekend ITV franchise in 1968, it rented Associated-Rediffusion's old studios at Wembley (now known as The Fountain Studios) whilst plans for a new studio complex in central London were drawn up. The site for the development was chosen beside the new Royal National Theatre on the South Bank of the River Thames. It was purchased in 1969 and construction work, awarded to Higgs and Hill, commenced in 1970 with the centre opening for transmission in 1972, although it was not fully operational until 1974. The complex was owned by the ''National Coal Board Pension Fund Trustees'' and leased by the station. It was originally called ''The South Bank Television Centre'' (a name that lasted until the early 1990s) and at the time was the most advanced television centre in Europe. On 28 January 2013 ITV plc finally bought the freehold to the now renamed ''London Television Centre'' for £56 million from what had now become Coal Pension Properties.〔http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/dozens-of-possible-bidders-for-itv-studios-8420075.html〕〔http://www.itvstudiosuk.com/itvs-contact〕 I On social media, the building is named 'ITV Towers' since the purchase in January 2013. However, the official name of the building is The London Television Centre (with the studio business branded as 'The London Studios') with that being the logo in reception and around the building. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The London Studios」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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