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Cape Town - No better studio for the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament could have been found.
This is the view of Phil Bigwood, BBC Sport's executive producer for football, regarding the channel's studio to be built on the roof of the Somerset Hospital in Green Point.
He explains that during World Cup tournaments broadcasting is always done from 'iconic' locations.
BBC Sport's studio during the 2006 tournament in Germany, for instance, looked out onto the Brandenburg Gate. In Cape Town the studio looks out onto Table Mountain as a geographic icon, the stadium as a football icon and Robben Island as a political icon.
Building is expected to be completed by the end of April.
The BBC will broadcast some 32 matches and 100 programmes from the roof-top studio.
Bigwood says that from November 2007 they had searched South Africa for a suitable location for their 2010 studio, and he expected it to be the most exciting and dramatic studio ever set up by the BBC overseas.
This studio, which he expects will probably cost "hundreds of thousands" of rands, will be left to the city after the tournament as a bequest.
Bigwood says the BBC is very pleased with the location of the studio.
England, he says, now just needs to win the tournament.
- Sake24.com
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