The Rank Organisation Davis cut staff, reduced budgets and concentrated film production at Pinewood. Other studio facilities (in Islington) were closed, sold (Lime Grove Studios) or leased (Denham). The Rank Organisation closed Independent Producers Ltd. The policies of Davis alienated many in the industry, in particular they led film director David Lean, responsible for some of Rank's most critically and financially successful films, to look elsewhere for backing. In 1949, the company bought the Bush Radio manufacturing facility and began to diversify its interests. In the early 1960s Rank took over Murphy Radio to form the Rank Bush Murphy Group (which was eventually
Sky Studios have scene dock doors which open out onto a scene dock. There are also a number of non-conventional studios located elsewhere in the building. There are eight production galleries on the ground floor alongside the conventional studios, with separate sound control rooms alongside each gallery. Any studio can be controlled from any gallery. "Sky Sports News" is controlled by Gallery 6. "Sky News" have a new gallery facility located on the second floor, alongside Studio 22. Both studios share a covered scene dock but have separate production galleries. Studio F's gallery is located up a gantry from the studio floor,