Regional radio broadcasting was largely based at a leased studio complex above a bank known as 'Old Broadcasting House' at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre. These studios became the base for radio output from the region in 1929. The BBC's first regional television studio, studio A, would be based elsewhere in the city - at a converted church on Dickenson Road in Rusholme, which opened in 1954 after being owned and operated by Mancunian Films.

Regional television news bulletins began