Broadcasting hub in a tower block was Olympian feat of engineering
Cathy Loughran
is an editor of the BBC Academy blog
Ever since it started BBC News has presented the biggest events in the world live from location. The 2012 London Olympics brought the challenge of broadcasting live to a different level - more precisely to the top floors of a 1960s block of flats in East London.
The Lund Point tower block in Newham became the focus of a monumental broadcasting operation big enough for all of the BBC’s news programmes. It also became the venue for the BBC’s first network TV news broadcast in HD.
The undoubted stars of the show were the BBC News technical engineering and IT staff whose ingenuity turned a concrete shell into a hi-tech Olympic broadcasting hub. It was an awesome task even by their exacting standards.
