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Now This Is Interesting….

In all the photos I’ve seen of CBS Studio 50, I’ve never seen these “Stand By” and “Applause” signs on the proscenium as we see in the Western Union ad photo. Nor have I ever seen the audio control booth this close to the stage. There is a wide shot for comparison. Note Ray Bloch’s Orchestra is where this audio booth seems to be.

In the Lucy picture, you can see the booth where it was built in 1936 when CBS used this for a radio studio center. It looks to be at the end of the stage wing on the north wall, a good twenty or so feet from the proscenium. Anyone know when they moved the booth up? Enjoy and share!



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4 responses to “Now This Is Interesting….”

  1. James Shea

    I am always interested to see photos of CBS Studio 50. It is the first television studio I visited (“What’s My Line?”).

  2. Barbara Forster

    All I can say, Bobby, is that these changes must have happened after my time with the show, which ended in the spring of 1967.

  3. Dennis Degan

    Bobby, the Lucy photo shows a boom operator obscuring the ‘Standby’ and ‘On Air’ signs. Notice the large round porthole-like opening to the left of the boom operator. That round opening is seen in the other pics as well.

  4. Gary Walters

    Could the ‘Stand By’ and ‘On The Air’ signs be leftovers from radio studio operations?

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