The
CBS Broadcast Center is a television and radio production facility located in
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
. It is
CBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...
's main East Coast production center, much as Television City in Los Angeles is the West Coast hub.
The nearly block-long facility at 524 West 57th Street, in the
Hell's KitchenHell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton and Midtown West by real estate brokers, is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City that covers roughly the area between 34th Street and 59th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River....
section of
ManhattanManhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.New York County, which has the same boundaries as the Borough of Manhattan , is the most densely populated county in the United States, with a 2008 population of 1,634,795...
, serves as the headquarters of
CBS NewsCBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports...
and the main broadcast facility for
CBS NewsCBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports...
,
CBS SportsCBS Sports is a division of CBS which airs many of the sports telecasts in the United States.CBS Sports broadcasts programs like NFL on CBS, The NFL Today, Southeastern Conference football, NCAA basketball, PGA golf, and professional tennis....
, and the New York City O&O flagship station
WCBS-TVWCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS television network, located in New York City and owned by CBS Corporation. The station's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center in midtown Manhattan and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building...
.
The
CBS Broadcast Center is a television and radio production facility located in
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
. It is
CBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...
's main East Coast production center, much as Television City in Los Angeles is the West Coast hub.
The nearly block-long facility at 524 West 57th Street, in the
Hell's KitchenHell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton and Midtown West by real estate brokers, is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City that covers roughly the area between 34th Street and 59th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River....
section of
ManhattanManhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.New York County, which has the same boundaries as the Borough of Manhattan , is the most densely populated county in the United States, with a 2008 population of 1,634,795...
, serves as the headquarters of
CBS NewsCBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports...
and the main broadcast facility for
CBS NewsCBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports...
,
CBS SportsCBS Sports is a division of CBS which airs many of the sports telecasts in the United States.CBS Sports broadcasts programs like NFL on CBS, The NFL Today, Southeastern Conference football, NCAA basketball, PGA golf, and professional tennis....
, and the New York City O&O flagship station
WCBS-TVWCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS television network, located in New York City and owned by CBS Corporation. The station's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center in midtown Manhattan and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building...
.
Black Entertainment TelevisionBlack Entertainment Television is an American cable network based in Washington D.C., and targets young African-American audiences in the United States. Robert L. Johnson founded the network in 1980...
also uses the Broadcast Center for
106 and Park and other in-studio shows for the network (Both BET and CBS were part of Viacom before being separated by the Viacom/CBS split).
CBS Television DistributionCBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, a merger of CBS Corporation's three television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television, CBS Paramount International Television, and King World Productions including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...
's nationally syndicated newsmagazine,
Inside EditionInside Edition is a syndicated news program, on the air since January 9, 1989. It was originally similar to the programs Hard Copy and A Current Affair, but now more closely resembles Entertainment Tonight or The Insider. It was created by John Tomlin and Bob Young for King World Productions Inside...
, is also taped at the CBS Broadcast Center.
The Broadcast Center is also the production base for the
CBS Radio NetworkThe CBS Radio Network provides news, sports and other programming to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by the CBS Corporation, and operated by CBS Corporation's CBS Radio Inc...
. The network's Master Control (aka Central Control) on the first floor also serves as the routing center for other programming distributed by
Westwood OneWestwood One is an American radio network. It is based in New York City, and it was previously managed by CBS Radio, the radio arm of CBS Corporation. The company is now owned by the private-equity firm The Gores Group and describes itself as "platform agnostic" but still focuses mostly on radio as...
. The radio network's flagship station,
WCBS (AM)WCBS , often referred to as "WCBS Newsradio 880" is a radio station in New York City. Owned by CBS Radio, the station broadcasts on a clear channel and is the flagship station of the CBS Radio Network...
, moved into the CBS Broadcast Center in 2000, after being located for more than three decades at
Black RockThe CBS Building in New York City, also known as Black Rock, is the 38-story headquarters of the CBS Corporation. The building, opened in 1965, was designed by Eero Saarinen. It is located at 51 West 52nd Street, at the corner of Sixth Avenue...
, CBS's corporate headquarters at 51 West
52nd Street52nd Street is a long one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan.-Jazz center:The blocks of 52nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue were renowned in the mid 20th century for the abundance of jazz clubs and lively street life...
.
In addition to the Broadcast Center, CBS has two other major studio centers in Manhattan — the
Ed Sullivan TheaterThe Ed Sullivan Theater, which is located at 1697-1699 Broadway between West 53rd and West 54th Streets, in Manhattan, is a venerable radio and television studio in New York City...
(CBS-TV Studio 50) at 1697 Broadway, the home of the
Late Show with David LettermanLate Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS. The show debuted on August 30, 1993, and is produced by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Incorporated. The show's music director and bandleader of the house band, the CBS Orchestra,...
; and the
General Motors BuildingThe General Motors Building is a 50-story, 705-foot office tower in Manhattan, New York City, facing Fifth Avenue at 59th Street . The building is one of the few structures in Manhattan that occupies a full city block. The building size is 1,905,103 rentable square feet on a plot measuring 200 x...
(CBS-TV Studio 58) on Fifth Avenue and 58th Street, where
The Early ShowThe Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City, 7 to 9 a.m. Monday through Saturday. The Early Show features celebrity interviews and light entertainment and news pieces.In some markets, the Saturday version may not air...
is produced.
From the 1950s to 70s, another prominent CBS stage in New York was Studio 52 (now the disco-theater
Studio 54Studio 54 is a New York City Broadway theater and former discothèque located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan. The disco opened on April 26, 1977 and closed in March 1986 and briefly reopened in 1994 after a multi-million dollar renovation...
) at 254 West
54th Street54th Street is a two-mile-long, one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan.-West Side Highway:*The route begins at the West Side Highway...
, around the corner from Studio 50. CBS also leased the Himan Brown studios at 221 West 26th Street (now Chelsea Studios) for several shows in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
WCBS-TVWCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS television network, located in New York City and owned by CBS Corporation. The station's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center in midtown Manhattan and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building...
's local newscasts are broadcast from studio 46; the
CBS Evening NewsCBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....
originates from studio 47.
History
The building in which the Broadcast Center is located formerly served as a dairy depot for Sheffield Farms. CBS, which had been using studios at
Grand Central TerminalGrand Central Terminal — often popularly called Grand Central Station or simply Grand Central — is a terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City...
and other theaters throughout Manhattan, purchased the production center in 1952 and began using it regularly for TV in 1963. The radio network, which had been based at 1 East 53rd Street, near the old CBS corporate headquarters at 485 Madison Avenue, moved to the Broadcast Center in July 1964, while the television network's master control moved from Grand Central to the Broadcast Center in late 1964.
Until January 2000, the Broadcast Center was home to CBS-TV's soap opera
As the World TurnsAs the World Turns is an American television soap opera that airs each weekday on CBS.Set in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, the show debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30pm EST. Prior to April 2, 1956 all serials were fifteen minutes in length...
. The defunct serials
Love of LifeLove of Life is a long-running American soap opera which was aired on CBS from September 24, 1951 to February 1, 1980, lasting 29 years. It was created by Roy Winsor, whose previous creation Search for Tomorrow had premiered three weeks before Love, and who would go on to create The Secret Storm...
,
Search for TomorrowSearch for Tomorrow is a TV soap opera which started airing on Monday, September 3, 1951 on CBS. The show was moved from CBS, its original broadcaster, on Friday, March 26, 1982, with NBC picking it up on the following Monday, March 29, 1982. It continued on NBC until the final episode was aired on...
, and
The Edge of NightThe Edge of Night was a long-running American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran on that network until November 28, 1975; the series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984...
were also produced at the Broadcast Center.
After a 37-year absence, broadcasting's oldest soap,
Guiding LightGuiding Light is an American daytime television drama and is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as being the longest-running soap opera in production and the longest running drama in television and radio history...
, returned to the Broadcast Center in September 2005, after 17 years at the
EUE/Screen GemsEUE/Screen Gems LTD owns and operates motion picture and television production facilities in Wilmington, North Carolina and New York City.The Wilmington studio is the largest production facility in the United States outside of California...
studios on the east side of Manhattan and 20 years at the
CBS/Himan Brown studios on 221 West 26th StreetChelsea Studios is a television studio and sound stage at 221 West 26th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.-History:The building was originally an armory that was home to Ninth Mounted Calvary which moved to 14th Street in 1914....
. The show had been produced in studio 45 at the CBS Broadcast Center from 1965-1968 before moving to West 26th street.
GL used studios 42 and 45 until it went off the air in September, 2009
As the World Turns is now recorded at J.C. Studios in
BrooklynBrooklyn is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located southwest of Queens on the western tip of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area...
, the former NBC Studios, which housed defunct soap opera
Another WorldAnother World is a television soap opera that ran on the NBC network from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...
. As a result of the move,
As the World Turns acquired many of
Another Worlds old sets, which can still be seen today.
In 1996
Brillstein-GreyBrillstein-Grey Entertainment is a film and television production company formed by the 1991 addition of Brad Grey to The Brillstein Company, founded by Bernie Brillstein in 1969.-The Brillstein Company:...
produced
The Dana Carvey ShowThe Dana Carvey Show was a half-hour sketch comedy television show that aired on the U.S. television network ABC during the 1996 season. Dana Carvey was the host and principal player on the show as well as its head writer....
at the Broadcast Center for
ABC-TVThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
, In fact as a jab at CBS (ABC's competition) the show's opening credits has a man with a paper version of the ABC logo on a ladder outside of the Broadcast Center covering over the CBS Eye logo while the announcer proclaims "From The ABC Broadcast Center".