page_title: Channel Four Television Corporation
section_title: Headquarters
hierarchical_section_title: Channel Four Television Corporation / Corporate affairs / Headquarters
caption_attribution_description: en:Channel 4 Building - Horseferry Road - en:London - en:England - photo by and copyright Tagishsimon - 31st May 2004
context_page_description: Channel Four Television Corporation is a publicly owned media company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Its original and principal activity is the British national television network Channel 4.
  The company was founded in 1982 as Channel Four Television Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the IBA, and became an independent statutory corporation in 1993. November 1998 saw Channel Four expand beyond its remit of providing the 'fourth service' in a significant way, with the launch of Film4. Since then the corporation has been involved in a range of other activities, all in some way associated with the main channel, and mainly using the '4' brand.
context_section_description: Channel Four was originally based at 60 Charlotte Street in the West End of London. Since 1994 the company has occupied distinctive, purpose-built headquarters at 124 Horseferry Road, Westminster. Designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership with structural engineering by Ove Arup & Partners, its 15,000 square metres architecture follows on from – but is more restrained than – the Lloyd's building in the City of London, and was constructed between 1990 and 1994. Twin four-storey office blocks arranged in an L shape are connected by a curved front with a dramatic concave glazed wall.
  Despite nearly all Channel 4 programmes being commissioned from independent production companies, the Channel 4 headquarters originally contained a studio and post-production facility, marketed as 124 Facilities. The studio was used for Channel 4 programmes (such as T4 continuity), and other channels' programmes such as Channel 5's football coverage. The studio was closed at the end of October 2007 and only the post-production operation remains, though it is now managed by Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services.
  On 31 October 2018 Channel 4 announced that it will open up a new national Headquarters in Leeds which will operate alongside the existing headquarters in London. On 1 April Channel 4 announced that they are in advanced negotiations with Rushbond Group to move into the Majestic. They hope to move in on the second half of 2020. For the meantime they Negotiated a temporary agreement with Bruntwood to lease space in Platform and West Gate, both of which are based in Leeds city centre.
caption: The Channel 4 building
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