CBS Broadcast Center
524 West 57th Street | Hell's Kitchen | built 1912
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- 1952
CBS buys a former Sheffield Farms dairy depot on West 57th Street
The building on West 57th Street had been a dairy depot for Sheffield Farms before CBS acquired it in 1952. The network opened it as the CBS Production Center in the late 1950s and began using it regularly for television in 1963.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1964
CBS inaugurates its $14.5 million Broadcast Center
On July 26, 1964, CBS formally inaugurates its completed Broadcast Center on West 57th Street, calling it the largest self-contained radio and television production complex of its kind. The $14.5 million facility brings together master control, film and videotape operations, and several studios that had previously been scattered across the city, including a master control room once based at Grand Central Terminal.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1984
The Broadcast Center's main entrance has been in use since February 1984
CBS News reports that the entrance now serving as the main entry to the Broadcast Center has been in use since February 1984. A $100 million update in the early 1980s had enlarged the 500,000-square-foot building by 176,400 square feet.
Source: cbsnews.com
- 1996
The Dana Carvey Show's opening credits cover the CBS Eye with an ABC logo
In 1996 Brillstein-Grey Entertainment produces ABC's The Dana Carvey Show inside the Broadcast Center, a CBS facility. As a jab at the rival network, the show's opening credits have a man on a ladder outside the building pasting a paper ABC logo over the CBS Eye while the announcer says the program comes from the ABC Broadcast Center.
“In 1996, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment produced The Dana Carvey Show at the Broadcast Center for ABC.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2001
A 48 Hours crew exploring the basement finds grain chutes and a cow hoof
In May 2001 a crew from the CBS newsmagazine 48 Hours goes down into the basement of the Broadcast Center looking for a place to shoot. Among other things, the crew comes across grain chutes and a cow hoof, leftovers from the former Sheffield Farms dairy building, which the company sold in 1952.
Source: cbsnews.com
- 2005
Guiding Light returns to the Broadcast Center after 37 years away
In September 2005 the soap opera Guiding Light moves back into the Broadcast Center after a 37-year absence. The show had been produced in Studio 45 from 1965 to 1968, and this time it works out of Studios 42 and 45 until its last broadcast on September 18, 2009.
“Guiding Light returned to the Broadcast Center in September 2005 ... until its final broadcast on September 18, 2009.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2016
The CBS Evening News moves into Studio 57
The Broadcast Center is home to 60 Minutes in Studio 33 and to the CBS Evening News, which moved into Studio 57 in December 2016. In June 2023 CBS told staff it was exploring a sale of the building.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2020
CBS shuts the Broadcast Center to disinfect it during the pandemic
On March 12, 2020, CBS closes its Broadcast Center on West 57th Street for a deep cleaning after two employees test positive for COVID-19. The closure comes as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts television production across New York City, forcing broadcasters to rethink how programs are made and aired.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2024
Paramount looks for a joint-venture partner to redevelop the Broadcast Center site
On January 31, 2024, Bisnow reports that Paramount is looking for a developer to take a minority stake as joint-venture partner in redeveloping the full-block Broadcast Center site, with responses due February 7. The site could take up to 1.1 million square feet of new development if it is rezoned. The move follows June 2023, when CBS entertainment chief George Cheeks told staff a real estate consultant had been hired to evaluate a sale.
Source: bisnow.com
- 2024
Studio 45 is the stage for the 2024 vice presidential debate
In 2024 Studio 45 at the Broadcast Center serves as the stage for the vice presidential debate. Studio 42, home of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, doubles as the debate's spin room. Studio 45 is otherwise used by CBS Sports and for special editions of CBS Sunday Morning, and it once housed Inside Edition.
Source: Wikipedia
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