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Manchester MediaCityUK BBC + ITV media-commerce, what's your playbook?

MediaCityUK in Salford Quays is unique to Manchester, BBC operations (BBC Sport, BBC Children's, Radio 5 Live, Match of the Day) and ITV operations (Coronation Street, Loose Women, This Morning North, Granada) plus independent production companies, post-production houses and digital agencies are all on one campus. Media-commerce builds we've shipped or scoped: broadcaster-owned DTC merch storefronts (talent merch, show-tied SKU drops gated by air-window), programme-tied seasonal merch operations (Strictly partner merch, GBBO branded ranges, sports-shirt drops aligned to fixture windows), multi-brand catalogue for indie-prod merchandising arms, scheduled-release queueing for episode-release-night demand spikes (4-8× baseline within minutes of broadcast), talent-revenue-share invoicing with custom royalty reporting feeding into Sage 200 or NetSuite. The unique Magento config layer for MediaCityUK builds: time-gated catalogue activation, broadcast-event-aware cache-warming pre-show, talent-attribution at order-line level for revenue-share, and BBFC/Ofcom-aware regional restriction rules. No other UK city offers this scope.

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