Paley Center for Media
25 West 52nd Street | Midtown | built 1989
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- 1991
William Paley's CBS gaming-table desk sits off the boardroom of his new museum
In 1991 the New York Times noted that most of the Museum of Television and Radio's $25 million endowment came from a bequest in William S. Paley's will. The round gaming table he had used as his CBS desk stood in a room off the museum's board room. The Times critic also described the new museum on West 52nd Street as much a library as a museum, with visitors watching old programs on Sony monitors in private carrels.
Source: Internet Archive
- 1991
The Museum of Television & Radio moves into the new William S. Paley Building
On September 12, 1991, the museum moved into the William S. Paley Building at 25 West 52nd Street, named for its founder. It had opened in 1976 at 1 East 53rd Street, using three floors of a converted office building, with 718 broadcasts available to the public. In March 1991 its trustees renamed it the Museum of Television & Radio to cover programs sent by cable and satellite.
Source: paleycenter.org
- 1991
Philip Johnson's Paley Building rises after its founder critiques every design detail
Philip Johnson designed the William S. Paley Building. The museum's own history says its founder, the CBS chairman William S. Paley, was a perfectionist who scrutinized each detail of the successive plans for the New York home, just as he lined up the pencils on his desk. Paley died in 1990, the year before the museum moved in.
Source: paleycenter.org
- 2002
The museum screens a lost rehearsal film of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
In 2002 the museum showed a previously unseen rehearsal film of the 1957 television musical Cinderella with Julie Andrews. Jane Klain, its director of research, had asked CBS to search its vaults for the show. The database listed three 16mm reels of five-minute segments, but the earliest, once pulled, turned out to be the whole dress rehearsal.
“When the earliest one was brought from the CBS vault, it was discovered to be the full dress rehearsal.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2007
The Museum of Television & Radio becomes the Paley Center for Media
On June 5, 2007, the institution at 25 West 52nd Street was renamed the Paley Center for Media. The name was meant to reflect its growth from a museum into a center that examines how media shapes life, culture and society. Five years earlier it had launched a membership group, now the Paley Media Council, for off-the-record talks among senior media executives.
Source: paleycenter.org
- 2013
PaleyFest makes its New York debut at the Paley Center with the cast of Orange Is the New Black
On October 2, 2013, the Paley Center on 52nd Street opened PaleyFest: Made in NY, the first New York edition of a festival that had run in Los Angeles for 30 years. Jenji Kohan and the cast of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg for opening night. The five-day festival also held panels on Person of Interest, Louie, Elementary and The Americans.
Source: variety.com
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