CBS Studio 56, In Liederkrantz Hall…1960 Spec Sheets
With 1,800 square feet of floor space, Studio 56 was the second largest facility in the building. It was directly under 54, and as noted, could be noisy if both were in use at the same time. One of the most notable productions from this studio was ‘The Guiding Light’ and there’s a clip below in the comment section. This concludes the Liederkrantz Hall studios. Thanks to our friend Gady Reinhold for these rare documents.
November 30, 1956…First Videotape Delayed Broadcast, CBS Television City CBS made broadcast history when they replayed ‘The Evening News With Douglas Edwards’ to the west coast. After recording the live feed coming down the network line from New York at 4 p.m. Pacific time, the program was played back three hours later. In the large […]
TeleTales #70…NBC Burbank Studio 1: The Start Of Something Big As NBC’s new Color City was coming to completion, CBS was in the final stages of completing Television City. In September, David Sarnoff announced that Burbank would go on the air earlier than planned. He said the new start date would be October 4, 1952 […]
By Request…A Visit To NBC Brooklyn Studios, 1967 Here, you’ll see the great RCA TK41s in action at NBC Brooklyn. The date was March 13, 1966 and the production was ‘The Bell Telephone Hour’. That episode was “The Music Of The Movies” and in the clip you’ll see (Oz scarecrow) Ray Bolger and a young […]
The Latest From 3000 West Alameda…Former NBC Burbank Thanks to Ray Rivera, here are some recent photos from what is now, The Burbank Studios. I think most of these were taken in the area around what was KNBC Studio 10. Except for Studio 3 which Clear Channel took over and made into the iHeart Radio […]
One of the best known show from Studio 56 was ‘The Guiding Light’ which ran from 6/30/52-9/18/09. When the Broadcast Center opened, it moved to Studio 45 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyNkmvVIG3U
According to my dad (Larry Auerbach), who directed “Love of Life” from that studio in the 1950s, he shared it with the Ernie Kovacs show, which aired in the morning, before LOL. Apparently Kovacs would occasionally see my dad puttering around in a corner of the studio, prepping for his show, and call him over to talk on air about what he was doing.Larry Auerbach in Studio 56