Naked To The World…Studio 33, CBS Television City
After all these years of seeing Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Carol Burnett, The Smothers Brothers, ‘The Match Game’, The Price Is Right’ and probably a thousand more shows on this stage, it’s nice to see it in it’s natural state. It always looks so intimate on television but this shot gives a different perspective on it’s size. The studio is 66′ x 110′ and seats 300.
November 28, 1925…”The Grand Ole Opry” Was Born “The Grand Ole Opry” started as the “WSM Barn Dance” in the new fifth-floor radio station studio of the National Life & Accident Insurance Company in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on November 28, 1925. On October 18, 1925, WSM management began a program featuring “Dr. Humphrey Bate and […]
One Side Up…Three More To Go At 30 Rock In September the old GE signs at 30 Rock finally came down. Thanks to our friend Alan Coffield, here’s a picture of one side of the building’s new top hat, complete with a peacock logo. Both the north and south sides get this treatment and the […]
Picture Parade 2…Who Wants One Of These For Christmas? This is a beautifully restored sound truck from Warner Brothers. In the 1930s and 40s, it was garaged at what would later become the NBC Brooklyn Studios. Back then, Warner owned the property which they had bought from Vitograph. NBC bought it in 1953. Enjoy! -Bobby […]
Camera Bashing…David Letterman’s Favorite Warm Up Trick I hope Larry Thorpe and our friends at Canon are seeing this. You couldn’t ask for a better ad campaign premise on Canon durability. This is Camera 2 on the set of the Letterman show. The bashing started long ago when Dave Dorsett was on this camera but […]
One of the few stages I would love to someday work on.
Thanks for posting the photograph!
See here for a floor plan of 33: http://www.cbstelevisioncity.com/stages# In the upstage left corner you can see the special cyc that was added for The Price Is Right.
I saw a taping of the Price is Right there about 10 years ago …a truly unbelievable studio!
Tom Hanks used Studio 33 in “That Thing you do.” It was called the City of Broadcasting and is where the Oneders (Wonders) performed on national TV. They brought out the Norelco’s and made it look accurate for the period.
Real Time with Bill Maher is also shot on stage 33!