{"id":21395,"date":"2016-10-03T10:23:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T14:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21395"},"modified":"2016-11-09T10:10:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:10:19","slug":"october-3-1952-television-city-debuts-1-day-before-nbc-burbankboth-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21395","title":{"rendered":"October 3, 1952&#8230;Television City Debuts 1 Day Before NBC Burbank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 3, 1952&#8230;Television City Debuts 1 Day Before NBC Burbank<\/p>\n<p>Both networks were working hard to finish their new west coast production facilities in the fall of 1952. When NBC announced in late September they had moved up their first broadcast date to October 4, a mad rush to finish CBS Studio 31 at Television City went into high gear, and on October 3, CBS broadcast &#8220;My Friend Irma&#8221; from there live. They were thrilled to beat NBC&#8230;even by one day.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo, Studio 31 with the &#8220;Irma&#8221; set. In the foreground, the producers desk with the new master lighting console just behind it. Also shown here are tickets from what would be a wild weekend for TV audiences in Hollywood! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1100088753362006\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/October-3-1952...Television-City-Debuts-1-Day-Before-NBC-Burbank-Both-networks\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1100088753362006\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477162357_175_October-3-1952...Television-City-Debuts-1-Day-Before-NBC-Burbank-Both-networks\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1100097653361116\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 3, 1952&#8230;Television City Debuts 1 Day Before NBC Burbank Both networks were working hard to finish their new west coast production facilities in the fall of 1952. When NBC announced in late September they had moved up their first broadcast date to October 4, a mad rush to finish CBS Studio 31 at Television [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[724,783,782,787,704],"class_list":["post-21395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cast","tag-cbs","tag-nbc","tag-net","tag-producer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}