G/046

During the summer of 1994 YSTV moved into G/046. They were no strangers to this room as it had been used as the control room for Election Night for the two preceding years. The previous occupiers of the room were Psychology, and they had tailored it to their own requirements with a series of small partitioned areas within the main room. See the interregnum page for details on the move.

Before YSTV took ownership of the room, it required a significant amount of refurbishment to allow it to function successfully as the studio of a campus television station. The design for the refurbishment was developed in-house at the University of York. Dominic Plunkett provided technical advice to the architect Rory. The large room was divided into two main areas, studio and control room/office area. The studio was soundproofed from the control room by two sets of doors with a short corridor in between. In addition the partition wall between the rooms was made up to two layers of plasterboard. The design also addressed the issue of electrical safety. An additional mains circuit was installed in the control room which was switched by an RCD.Unverified or incomplete information The two circuits were sometimes referred to as temporary and permanent. In the studio, two rows of sockets in the corner of the room, each row having it's own RCD switch.Unverified or incomplete information Descending from the ceiling void above the rows were a set of mains plugs that were wired back to a series of sockets on the ceiling.

Unfortunately during the initial design phase it came to pass that SU Ents Tech required a storage room for their equipment. A section of the raised area next to the entrance way was partitioned off for this purpose. SU Ents Tech treated their equipment with great care. However, once it was within the flight case it was a different story. Frequently, late night operations in the control room would be disturbed by banging and crashing emanating from the Ents Tech cupboard.

Move-in occurred during the latter half of the summer term of 1994. Week by Week was one of the first programs to be broadcast from the hastily constructed studio on the 15th June 1994. Although the University had done a grand job in refurbishment, additional touches were required. A control desk and monitor rack was assembled using elements of the racking system from the previous studio. Cable was laid from a central patch bay on the control room side to the set of mini patch panels in the studio.

The studio was officially opened by Greg Dyke 29th October 1994.