Broadcasting House in 1932 Broadcasting House in 1932
Seventh Floor
Some of the tower on this floor contained the upper parts of sixth floor studios, though there was still room for studios 7A, B, C, D and E (the latter being a gramophone effects studio similar to 6E). The seventh and sixth floors housed the Productions Group studios, used mainly for dramatic productions.

Control Cubicles The Line Testing Room The Line Testing Room The Office Telephone Exchange The Office Telephone Exchange Control Cubicles Studio 7B Control cubicles were provided on the seventh floor where musicians could control programmes and hear them on loudspeakers without it being necessary to sit at a control position in the main Control Room.

There were recording rooms containing Blattnerphone steel-tape recording machines which connected with the Control Room so that any programme could be recorded or playbacks could be fed to transmission or into any studio. The BBC had already been experimenting with one of these machines at Avenue House and Savoy Hill.

Broadcasting House in 1932 Broadcasting House in 1932
Seventh Floor