Gravity Media Details Latest Expansion as New Production Centre London White City Launches

Gravity Media, the world leading global provider of complex live creative production and media services, continues its expansion with the launch of their second London Production Centre – in the heart of the media campus in White City, launching later this year.

Gravity Media will open a brand-new state of the art, future focused Production Centre which will showcase highly-specialist technical facilities – the new location will join Gravity Media’s current other global Production Centres in London’s Chiswick, Manchester, Sydney, Melbourne, and San Francisco.

The next-generation Production Centre housed in The Westworks building will be a creative and technology leading media hub made up of production, post-production, and live studios. 

The 50,000 square foot facility will feature best in class technology to support both on premise and distributed remote production workflows. Directly connected to the Gravity Media UK and metro networks as well as on net with other key telco partners and able to support in excess of 200 incoming and 40 outgoing discreet services. The facility will be based around a fully fledged 2110 IP media fabric with dedicated master control, and remote production break out MCR, eight dedicated production control rooms with dedicated audio control rooms, multiple off tube commentary booths, two studios lighting and vision control facilities, fast turnaround and craft edit, flexi desk production spaces, media management and client desking. 

The Westworks building is the ideal space to allow Gravity Media to launch the Production Centre of the future, being situated next to the BBC Television Centre, which houses the likes of ITV live daytime shows such as Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, This Morning, and Loose Women as well as entertainment shows such as Saturday Night Takeaway and the Jonathan Ross Show. 

As part of The Westworks building set up Gravity Media’s location means the team and clients alike can enjoy the breadth of restaurants, bars, and cafes locally including Soho House White City located minutes from the new space, as well as an outdoor terrace area, and other communal areas. Open plan workspace, modern floors overlooking central gardens and terraces will all be available for use; all within easy access to the centre of London. 

It also will bring together the production and content team, the Gravity House post-production offering of multi-suite spaces, editing suites, and post-technical solutions. Further building upon a community of like-minded creatives.

The new Production Centre will also enable Gravity Media to welcome key Sports Federations to be based in their facility – ensuring their broadcast media needs can be solved in-house via cutting-edge media and technology solutions.

The facility will also mean Gravity Media can easily draw on its extensive EMEA and Global network and collaborate directly with its London Production Centre in Chiswick, enabling completely decentralised remote production workflows with the flexibility to integrate next-generation cloud-based, GPU-powered workflows. 

Ed Tischler, Gravity Media’s managing director says of the new facility, “The expansion into a brand new, state-of-the-art Production Centre is a big moment for Gravity Media. We are immensely proud of the team and the business and are excited about what the space can offer our clients.

Our new Production Centre located in the heart of White City in The Westworks building will house our growing team of creative and innovative media specialists. With our strong technical pedigree and well-established experience of complex live, fast turnaround and postproduction workflows - the powerful network of connected Gravity Media remote Production Centres, coupled with expertise delivering turnkey solutions will continue to offer productions a unique range of options and flexibility. 

We look forward to working with both established and new clients to provide the innovative solutions they need”.

Gravity Media’s CEO and Founder John Newton comments, “This year has seen Gravity Media awarded a host of important new contracts globally, welcomed more talented new hires, and meant we have showcased a newly refreshed brand as well as website - all signalling a new era for Gravity Media. 

With this game-changing launch, following on from our recent Gravity Media Production Centre Manchester opening in the iconic ABC Buildings (which also plays home to VERSA studios, BBC, The Farm, Sony, and many more) we are poised for the most exciting chapter this company has ever known. 

This expansion is a hugely exciting moment for the whole global Gravity Media team – it enables us to build a truly future focused facility. One in which we will be able to nurture our talent as well as ensure we will attract the very best in next-generation media, innovation, technology, and engineering experts who we look forward to welcoming to the new facility in White City. All with the aim of providing the most advanced solutions for all our clients across Sports, Film and TV and Live Event formats”.