The old chestnut of ITV moving to Hackney Wick's 1.1m sq ft Olympics International Broadcast Centre has reared its head again.
Just before Christmas the Department of Culture, Media and Sport Committee grilled the ODA and LOCOG about progress on the Olympics Games.
ODA chief David Higgins when questioned by Paul Farrelly about progress on the centre encouragingly said: "It will be a conventional office building and already there are media companies, one in particular, which are thinking of taking space in there. It is years away, of course, but there are organisations that have expressed interest."
Farrelly said that ITV had been mentioned to which Higgins responded rather gnomically: "It is early days."
In the world of the journalist I'm afraid that is not a denial and so one starts thinking that there is at least a possibility that the broadcasting giant could anchor the space.
The DCMS interview is well worth a read, although there is not much of an update on the continued negotiations over how the ODA and LDA transfer over their land and debt to the OPLC and government after the Games. You can read it here:
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