Hans Zimmer completed the acquisition of Maida Vale studios from BBC.

Hans Zimmer, a German film score composer and music producer, completed the acquisition of Maida Vale studios, a complex of seven BBC sound studios, from BBC, a British public service broadcaster. Financial terms were not disclosed. "This was a place of revolutionary science in the service of art, this was a place that inspired you to give your best, where music was performed around the clock and art was taken seriously. For the people by the people. This was the place that kept a struggling musician like me from giving up," Hans Zimmer.