Channel 5 is front-runner for Olympic media centre

 
Matthew Beard18 October 2012

Channel 5 is in talks to move to the Olympic media centre, the Standard can reveal.

The television company is being lined up as one of the tenants of the £330 million base, which was home to 20,000 journalists during the Games.

Owned by Richard Desmond, Five is currently in nearby Lower Thames Street and is thought to be the front-runner among several broadcasters eyeing a move to the Olympic Park.

They would be tenants of the “iCITY” consortium, which has won the bid to take over the media centre to establish a “digital cluster”. Hackney Community College and Loughborough University are signed up to move in when it opens in autumn next year with the creation of 4,500 jobs.

iCity, which is owned by property developer Delancey and “data centre” specialist Infinity, said it was in talks with Five as well as several other major broadcasters.

The media centre comprises an office block and a vast broadcast centre the size of a Canary Wharf skyscraper. Five was not available for comment.

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