Reading: BBC radio station moves to Thames Valley Park

BBC Radio Berkshire has announced that it is to move to Thames Valley Park later this year.  

Duncan McLarty, editor of BBC Radio Berkshire, said: “We are looking forward to our move to Thames Valley Park. Our new studios have all the latest broadcast, newsgathering and editing equipment that will enable our fantastic line up of presenters, including Andrew Peach, Sarah Walker and Bill Buckley, to carry on with their mix of conversation, local news and updates and music that listeners across Berkshire love. We’ll be moving later this year and will be wishing Caversham Park well as it moves to the next phase of its history.”

BBC Radio Berkshire has been broadcasting from Caversham Park for two decades. The BBC announced in 2017 that it was selling the site as part of a broader BBC property strategy of cutting costs, providing maximum value for money for the licence fee and moving towards a smaller, more modern property estate.

As previously announced, the Caversham Park-based BBC Monitoring is moving to London where staff will be based closer to other colleagues in the BBC language services, whilst staff working for BBC written archives will remain on the Caversham Park site in a separate building.