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Delivery Contacts
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 Delivery Items
 In Advance
 Publicity Material
 Stills
 Production Script
 Promotions
 Billings
 On Delivery Date
 Compliance Form
 I&RP OFCOM Form
 Transmission Form
 Network TX Tape
 Standby Tape
 Prog Clips
 Final Steps
 P as C
 Music Reporting
 Indep. Contracts
 BBC Scotland
 TX Tape
 Open University
 Tape Package (OU)
 Final Transcript (OU)
 Terms Explained
 Compliance
 Delivery Date
 Programme Numbers
 Regional production
 Topicality
 Transmission Review
BBC Wales Delivery Site
New Compliance Policy
e-Commissioning

Member of the public with ideas can get information here

Writers Room Link

Durations - don't make your programme too long for your slot - check programme and credit durations here

Interactive TV ideas are submitted to the normal genre teams


Delivery Contacts
Area Contact/Email Responsibility
Broadcasting Data Services (BDS)

Phone (020) 8280 2080
Email billings@bds.tv

Details of Billings Due Dates are available at the BDS website here.

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.

Billings
Access Services

Emma Guilbert,
Phone (0208) 495 5537
Email

Dominic Mansi,
Phone (020) 8495 5378
Email

Subtitling, signing and audio description of programmes
Picture Publicity

BBC Pictures,
Room 2021 BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ

Phone (020) 8225 6800
Email
Opening Hours 0930-1730 Monday-Friday with 24/7 Digital Picture Service for UK media

All aspects of the creation and distribution of promotional images in connection with the transmission of licence fee funded TV, radio, online output and other BBC activity
Information & Archives Media Despatch

Stage V Despatch
Room B503 BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ

Phone (020) 8576 4707/8
Opening Hours 0800-1900 Monday-Friday
0900-1300 Saturday

Tape Delivery for In-House Producers (all genres);

Main point of despatch/delivery for tapes coming to/leaving TV Centre

Entertainment & Comedy Delivery

Gina Edwards or Angeline Hind (Programme Delivery Co-ordinators), Room 6080 BBC TV Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ

Phone Gina Edwards (020) 8225 6404 or Angeline Hind (020) 8225 9064
Email gina.edwards@bbc.co.uk or angeline.hind@bbc.co.uk
Opening Hours 0930-1730 Monday-Friday

Programme Delivery for Independent Producers
(for Entertainment and Comedy)
Knowledge Delivery Unit

Room 7045, BBC TV Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ

Phone Rebecca Chapman (020) 8225 6403 or the Programme Delivery Co-ordinators: Sarah Legg (020) 8225 6482, Sarah Hollingsworth (020) 8225 6405, Michael Vick (020) 8225 6563, Kathryn Thomas (020) 8225 6405
Email rebecca.chapman@bbc.co.uk or sarah.legg@bbc.co.uk or sarah.hollingsworth@bbc.co.uk or michael.vick@bbc.co.uk or kathryn.thomas@bbc.co.uk
Opening Hours 0930-1730 Monday-Friday

Programme Delivery for Independent Producers
(for Knowledge)
Drama Delivery Unit

Helen Whitcher (Drama Delivery Unit), Room 6030 BBC TV Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ

Phone (020) 8576 9730
Email
Fax (020) 8576 7491
Opening Hours 0930-1730 Monday-Friday

Programme Delivery for Independent Producers
(for Drama)
Acquisitions Delivery (non-CBBC)

Sharon Maitland, Manager, Technical Operations,
Room 6023 BBC TV Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ

Phone (020) 8225 6270
Email
Fax (020) 8936 9171
Opening Hours 0830-1630 Monday-Friday

Programme Delivery for Acquisitions (non-CBBC)
BBC Childrens Programme Delivery unit

Sylvia Paul/Emily Roseman,
BBC Childrens Prog Delivery Unit,
Room E1000 East Tower, BBC TV Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ

Phone(020) 8225 6470 / (020) 8576 4832
Email sylvia.paul@bbc.co.uk
emily.roseman@bbc.co.uk
Opening Hours 0930-1730 Monday-Friday

Programme Delivery for Independent Producers
(for BBC Childrens)
BBC Children's Animation and Acquisitions

Mandy Kamester
Phone (020) 8575 7544
Email mandy.kamester@bbc.co.uk

Caroline Hill
Phone (020) 8576 9705
Email caroline.hill@bbc.co.uk

Opening Hours 0900-1700 Monday-Friday

Programme Delivery for BBC Childrens Acquired Programmes
Review Centre

Review Centre, Room B094 BBC TV Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ

Email Bookings: reviewcentrebookings@bbc.co.uk
Phone Technical Review & QAR Results (020) 8225 9039
Other Technical Queries (020) 8225 8497

Responsible for Technical Reviews; Quality Assessment Reviews (QARs); and Quality Checks of tapes
Media Planning (MC&A)

BBC Media Planning
White City Building, 201 Wood Lane, 5th Floor area 5426, London W12 7TQ

BBC Group Head: Jo Wilkinson
Phone (020) 875 25517
Email

BBC ONE: Saarika Shah
Phone (020) 875 25329

BBC TWO: Mark Solanki
Phone (020) 875 24849

BBC THREE/FOUR: Daniel Sanvicens
Phone (020) 875 25476

Planning & scheduling of all promotional/navigational messages across all BBC services
Playout Planning (Red Bee Media)

Email presplan@redbeemedia.com
Opening Hours 0900-1730 Monday - Friday

Handle billings and process transmission forms/data
EPG Unit

Email epg.television@redbeemedia.com (TV Enquiries)
Email BDS BBC EPG Unit (General Enquiries)
Phone (020) 8008 0351/2/3
Opening Hours Office Hours Monday - Friday
Phone (020) 8008 0109

Opening Hours Out of Office Hours Monday-Friday
0630-Midnight Weekends

Supply Billings to Digital TV and the BBC's What's On Website
TV Business Information Beverley Salt, Business Information Manager,
TV Business Information, Room 7059 BBC TV Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ
Managing the Independent and Regional Production quota
Music Reporting Unit

Music Reporting Unit
Phone (020) 8008 2534
Email

Delivery of music usage data to the music copyright societies.
Media Intake Area

(Red Bee Media)

MIA (Media Intake Area)
Red Bee Media

MCG D4, Broadcast Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP

Media Management Co-ordinators
Phone (020) 8495 5215
Email

Media Management Librarians
Phone (020) 8495 5228
Email

Media Management of all network BBC Vision transmission tapes (destination for all network TX tapes which have passed Tech Review).
Other Useful Contacts
Area Contact/Email Responsibility
Current Operations

Current Operations
Phone (020) 8576 7849
Email
Opening Hours 0800-2100 all week

Tape Movement for Post Production
Document Archive

Document Archive
Phone (020) 8576 8877
Email

Maintain paperwork archive
Information & Archives TV Archive

Information & Archives TV Archive
Phone (020) 8008 2288
Email

TV research team offering film/tape and information research, as well as research on the radio archive, music research and stills research
International Unit

Events & Live Programme Distribution
Joyce Harley, International Unit
Phone (020) 8756 1984
Email
website http://www.bbc.co.uk/international

Co-ordinate UK programme feeds for independent producers and all international feeds
Satellite Bookings

Satellite Bookings
Phone (020) 8576 0086
Email

Co-ordinate any satellite or circuit feeds
Network Bookings

Network Bookings
Phone (0)1386 420040

For general advice / prices:
Audrann Marriot
Phone (0)1386 420050
Stuart Richardson:
Phone (020) 8576 4469

Co-ordinate UK programme feeds for in-house producers on BBC circuits
Pronunciation Advice

BBC Pronunciation Research Unit, 7001 TV Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ

Phone (020) 8008 2277
Fax (020) 8225 7668
Email

Provides advice about pronunciations in all languages
BBC Production Insurance Centre

BBC Production Insurance Centre, Pinewood Studios, Pinewood Road, Iver, Bucks SL0 0NH

Phone (01753) 658206/7
Fax (01753) 653805

Production Insurance for Independent Producers
Open University (Open Broadcast Unit - OBU) Delivery Contacts
Area Contact/Email Responsibility
Project Co-ordination, (OBU)

Broadcast Project Managers

Phone (01908) 655265
(01908) 655227
(01908) 655247 or
(01908) 655637

Email julia.burrows@bbc.co.uk
diane.morris2@bbc.co.uk
sally.ashwell@bbc.co.uk
maria.ferebee@bbc.co.uk

Each OU production (both inhouse and independent) is assigned to one BPC to co-ordinate and act as first point of contact

On request books BBC Transmission Reviews (independents only)

Distributing branding/end credit disks

Project Assistance, (OBU)

Unit Assistant
Phone (01908) 655355
Email s.e.baxter@open.ac.uk

Information & Archive libraries contact for Independents
Finance, (OBU)

Bernard Coen, Programme Finance Manager
Phone (01908) 652448
Email bernard.coen@bbc.co.uk

Managing Open University programme budgets and cash-flows and advising re. insurance
Transmission Co-ordination, OBU

Transmission Co-Ordinator

Phone (01908) 655316

Email david.currie@bbc.co.uk

Issuing Prog ID Numbers

Advising re. OU Branding & End Credit Guidelines

Managing OU Billings and delivery of complete P4A disks (Independents only)

Information & Recorded Materials, OBU

Information & Recorded Materials Co-Ordinator,
Open Broadcasting Unit,
Room B075 Wilson Building,
The Open University,
Milton Keynes MK7 6BH

Phone (01908) 655301

Email steve.morris@bbc.co.uk

Delivery of tape package & final transcript
Rights Department, OU

Alma Hales, Manager I.P.
Phone (01908) 652233
Email a.f.hales@open.ac.uk

Sarah Gamman
Phone (01908) 658620
Email S.A.Gamman@open.ac.uk

Katie Meade
Phone (01908) 659526
Email c.a.meade@open.ac.uk

First point of contact for rights enquiries until a Contracts Executive is assigned to individual productions
Media Relations, OU

Head of Media Relations

Jane Dillon
Phone (01908) 01908 652580
Email j.dillon@open.ac.uk

Press Officers

Kath Hardwick
Phone (01908) 655026
Email k.hardwick@open.ac.uk

Liezel Tipper
Phone (01908) 654573
Email l.tipper@open.ac.uk

Co-ordinates publicity for OU productions
open2.net Web Team

BBC Worldwide Interactive Learning,
Room 112
West Perry Building,
Milton Keynes,
MK7 6BH

Phone (01908) 655633

Manages www.open2.net - the Open University website
BBC Wales Delivery Contacts
Delivery contacts for BBC Wales
BBC Scotland Delivery Contacts
Area Contact/Email Responsibility
Planning

Gordon Rodden, Bi-Media Commissions Planner

Phone (0141) 422 6055

Email gordon.rodden@bbc.co.uk

Main point of contact for any general queries relating to information on this site about TV for BBC Scotland
Scheduling

Lisa McLaughlin, TV Scheduling Manager

Phone (020) 422 7698
Email

Programme Numbers & Billings
BBC Scotland Delivery

Annette Macmillan, Independents Delivery & Post Production Co-ordinator

Phone (0141) 422 6039
Email annette.macmillan@bbc.co.uk

Marion Stirling, Independents Delivery & Post Production Co-ordinator

Phone (0141) 422 6093
Email marion.stirling@bbc.co.uk

Programme Delivery for BBC Scotland LOCAL Independent Productions

Programme Delivery for BBC Scotland NETWORK Independent Productions

Presentation

Presentation Assistants (various)

Phone (0141) 422 7500

Presentation
Marketing & Communications

Promotions PA
Phone (0141) 422 7470

Promotions (trails)
Marketing & Communications

Roy Templeton, Manager, Press & Publicity

Phone (0141) 422 6315

Email roy.templeton@bbc.co.uk

Press & Publicity
Media Intake

Andy Gailey
Phone(0141) 422 6386

Claire Henderson
Phone(0141) 422 6295

Dulcie Scanlon
Phone(0141) 422 6389)
EmailBFT Intake Media Management

Intake Media Management
Gaelic

Ishbel MacLennan, Editor, Gaelic programmes

Phone (01851) 880 727

Email ishbel.maclennan@bbc.co.uk

Gaelic Programmes
Subtitling (Access Services)

Emma Guilbert
Phone(0208) 495 5537
Emailemma.guilbert@redbeemedia.com

Dominic Mansi
Phone(020) 8495 5378
Emaildominic.mansi@redbeemedia.com

Subtitling, signing and audio description of programmes

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