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| image = [[File:BBC Logo 2021.svg|200px]]<br><br>[[File:BBC UK Regions (North West highlighted).svg|200px]]<br>BBC North West's area within the UK
| headquarters = [[MediaCityUK|MediaCity]], [[Salford Quays]], [[Greater Manchester]]
| area = [[Cheshire]]<br>[[Greater Manchester]]<br>[[Lancashire]]<br>[[Merseyside]]<br>[[North Yorkshire]] (western [[Craven District|Craven]])<br>[[West YorkshireDerbyshire]] (western [[CalderdaleHigh Peak, Derbyshire|High Peak]])<br>[[DerbyshireShropshire]] (western [[High Peak, Derbyshire|High PeakGobowen]]) <br> [[Staffordshire]]
([[Staffordshire MoorlandsBiddulph]])<br>[[Cumbria]] ([[Barrow-in-Furness (borough)|Barrow-in-Furness]] and [[South Lakeland]])<br>[[Isle of Man]]
| nation = [[BBC English Regions]]
| regions = [[North West England|North West]] and [[Isle of Man]]
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'''BBC North West''' is the [[BBC English Regions|BBC English Region]] serving [[Cheshire]], [[Greater Manchester]], [[Lancashire]], [[Merseyside]], as well as parts of [[North Yorkshire]] (western [[Craven District|Craven]]), [[West YorkshireDerbyshire]] (western [[CalderdaleHigh Peak, Derbyshire|High Peak]]), [[DerbyshireShropshire]] (western [[High Peak, Derbyshire|High PeakGobowen]]), [[Staffordshire]] ([[Staffordshire MoorlandsBiddulph]]), [[Cumbria]] ([[Barrow-in-Furness (borough)|Barrow-in-Furness]] and [[South Lakeland]]) and the [[Isle of Man]].
 
The region also covered the rest of Cumbria during the late 1980s, complete with an opt-out television news service for the area, before it was transferred to the BBC North East region owing to high viewer demand. Today, the region is part of the larger [[BBC North|BBC North division]] based at [[MediaCityUK]] in [[Salford Quays]].
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The building had been leased to the Corporation from a bank on the ground floor and became the central control room for regional and network radio production from the city.
 
In 1954, a former Methodist church on Dickenson Road in [[Rusholme]] became the BBC's first Manchester television studio, [[Dickenson Road Studios]]. It was brought from [[Mancunian Films]], who had converted the church building in 1947.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=Jeffrey |title=Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army |date=15 September 1997 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-4743-5 |page=267 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bck6oHB6_AwC&pg=PA267 |access-date=28 May 2022 |languagevia=enGoogle Books}}</ref>
 
The Dickenson Road facilities became the main home of the city's network production base, providing facilities for television drama. It was here that the early editions of the long-running programme ''[[Top Of The Pops]]'' were produced.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Humphries |first1=Patrick |title=Top of the Pops 50th Anniversary |date=28 November 2013 |publisher=McNidder and Grace Limited |isbn=978-0-85716-063-8 |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tMscAwAAQBAJ&dq=top%20of%20the%20pops&pg=PT23 |access-date=28 May 2022 |languagevia=enGoogle Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bignell |first1=J. |last2=Lacey |first2=S. |title=British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future |date=12 May 2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-32758-1 |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YHWEAwAAQBAJ&dq=dickenson+Road+studios&pg=PA108 |access-date=28 May 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref> The BBC's northern outside broadcast units were located at another former church nearby, on the corner of Birch Lane and Plymouth Grove in [[Longsight]].<ref name="g7uk">{{cite web |title=The end of the Oxford Road Show (video) |url=https://www.g7uk.com/photo-video-blog/20120924-the-end-of-the-oxford-road-show-video.shtml |website=g7uk |access-date=28 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226040040/https://www.g7uk.com/photo-video-blog/20120924-the-end-of-the-oxford-road-show-video.shtml |archive-date=26 February 2021 |date=24 September 2012}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bignell |first1=J. |last2=Lacey |first2=S. |title=British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future |date=12 May 2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-32758-1 |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YHWEAwAAQBAJ&dq=dickenson+Road+studios&pg=PA108 |access-date=28 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> The BBC's northern outside broadcast units were located at another former church nearby, on the corner of Birch Lane and Plymouth Grove in [[Longsight]].<ref name="g7uk">{{cite web |title=The end of the Oxford Road Show (video) |url=https://www.g7uk.com/photo-video-blog/20120924-the-end-of-the-oxford-road-show-video.shtml |website=g7uk |access-date=28 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226040040/https://www.g7uk.com/photo-video-blog/20120924-the-end-of-the-oxford-road-show-video.shtml |archive-date=26 February 2021 |date=24 September 2012}}</ref>
 
Meanwhile, regional television news and presentation began in September 1957, firstly from the crypt at Dickenson Road, before moving two years later to Broadcasting House in [[Piccadilly Gardens]].
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