CBS Broadcast Center

530 West 57th Street | also 535 West 56th Street, 541 West 56th Street, 533 West 56th Street | Hell's Kitchen | built 1937

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1952

    CBS buys the former Sheffield Farms dairy depot on West 57th Street

    CBS purchases the site, a former Sheffield Farms dairy depot, in 1952. The network begins using the 57th Street facility regularly for television in 1963, and the radio network moves in during July 1964. Television master control follows from Grand Central Terminal in late 1964.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 2009

    September 18

    Guiding Light broadcasts its final episode from the Broadcast Center

    The soap opera Guiding Light returns to the Broadcast Center in September 2005 after a 37-year absence, using Studios 42 and 45 through its final broadcast on September 18, 2009. Other soaps produced at the center over the years include As the World Turns and Search for Tomorrow.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2021

    September 7

    CBS Mornings leaves the Broadcast Center, then returns four years later

    CBS This Morning premieres on January 9, 2012, from Studio 57 at the Broadcast Center. On September 7, 2021, it completes a move to MTV Studios and is rebranded CBS Mornings. The show moves back to the Broadcast Center from its Times Square studio on September 29, 2025.

    Source: Wikipedia

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