UK telecommunications company BT has agreed a 10-year lease, from 2013 to 2022, for the anchor tenancy of the London Olympic Park international broadcast centre, which will become the home of the new BT Sport pay-television channels.
BT said it would refit part of the building to house three television studios, a control centre, 20 edit suites and an audience holding area.
BT will start work at the building on the Olympic Park on February 1, ahead of the launch of BT Sport in the summer of 2013.
BT agreed the lease deal with technology company iCity, which took control of the building after the conclusion of the Paralympic Games.
Ian Livingston, chief executive of BT, said: “BT Sport will be a visible and engaged partner for the community and the studio will be a reminder of the incredible sporting feats we witnessed during the Olympics and Paralympics. The Olympic Park will be an iconic sporting backdrop for BT Sport. We want to create jobs in the area and to explore sporting links with local schools as well as looking at how we can offer our production facilities to other companies.”