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's main East Coast production hub, similar to CBS Studio Center in

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as the West Coast hub. The Broadcast Center is one of two production facilities in Manhattan owned by

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, the other being the studios for MTV located in the company's headquarters at

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Description

The nearly block-long facility at 524 West 57th Street in the

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section of

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serves as the headquarters of CBS News and the CBSN live streaming news channel, and is the main broadcast facility for CBS News,

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, New York City flagship O&O station

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and CBS-owned independent station

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. In 2001,

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previously used studios for ''

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'' and other in-studio shows (both BET and CBS were part of Viacom until their 2006 separation by the Viacom/CBS split, but re-merged in 2019).

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's nationally syndicated newsmagazine ''

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'' is also taped at the Broadcast Center. The Broadcast Center is also the production base for

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. The network's Master Control (aka Central Control) on the first floor also serves as the routing center for other programming distributed by

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(formerly

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). The radio network's flagship station

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was housed in the Broadcast Center from 2000 (moving from Black Rock, CBS's corporate headquarters at 51 West

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) until 2011 when it relocated to 345 Hudson Street in lower Manhattan, billed on-air as "The Audacy Hudson Square Broadcast Center." In addition to the Broadcast Center, CBS has one other major studio in Manhattan — the

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(CBS-TV Studio 50) at 1697 Broadway, the home of ''

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''. The

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(CBS-TV Studio 58), on Fifth Avenue and 58th Street, was the home of ''

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'' until December 31, 2011. ''The Early Show''s successor, the second incarnation of ''

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'' (predecessor of ''

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''), premiered from newly constructed Studio 57 at the Broadcast Center on January 9, 2012. The ''

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'' moved into Studio 57 from Studio 47 (previously sharing space with the CBS News newsroom) in December 2016. It relocated from New York in December 2019, as new anchor

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will be based in

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ViacomCBS announced in May 2021 that ''CBS This Morning'' would vacate the Broadcast Center for the MTV Studios. The move was completed on September 7, 2021, when ''CBS This Morning'' rebranded to ''

''.

History

Early history

The Center opened as the CBS Production Center in the late 1950s, when the network's master control, film and videotape facilities, and four studios were located in the Grand Central Terminal building. The building in which the Broadcast Center is located formerly served as a dairy depot for

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. CBS purchased the site in 1952 and began using it regularly for TV in 1963. The radio network, with offices at 1 East 53rd Street and studios at 49 East 52nd 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. The company spent $14.5 million to create what was, at the time, "the largest 'self-contained' radio and television production center in the United States and the most modern broadcasting plant of its kind in the world," as the ''New York Tribune'' put it in 1961. From the 1950s to 1970s, another prominent CBS stage in New York was Studio 52 (now the disco-theater Studio 54) at 254 West

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, around the corner from Studio 50. CBS also leased the Himan Brown studios at 221 West 26th Street, now

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, for several shows in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

CBS Broadcast Center and soap operas

Until January 2000, the Broadcast Center was home to CBS-TV's soap opera ''

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'', which moved to JC Studios in Brooklyn. Former serials ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Love is a Many Splendored Thing'', '' Secret Storm'', and '' Where the Heart Is'' were also produced at the Broadcast Center. After a 37-year absence, '' Guiding Light'' returned to the Broadcast Center in September 2005, after 17 years at EUE/Screen Gems studios, 222 East 44th Street and 20 years at the CBS/Himan Brown studios at 221 West 26th Street. The show had been produced in Studio 45 at the CBS Broadcast Center from 1965 to 1968 before moving to West 26th Street. ''GL'' used Studios 42 and 45 until its final broadcast on September 18, 2009.

''"From the ABC Broadcast Center..."''

In 1996,

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produced ''

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'' at the Broadcast Center for ABC. As a jab at CBS ( ABC's competition), the show's opening credits had 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 proclaimed "From the ABC Broadcast Center...".

Recent history

In early 2012, it was announced ''

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'' would not be renewed. After a few months it was announced that Anderson Cooper's talk show would move into Studio 42 leaving its home in the

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. Also in 2012, CBS acquired the Riverhead, Long Island-licensed

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(Channel 55, cable channel 10), setting up a duopoly with WCBS-TV. Following the merger, CBS moved that station's employees to the CBS Broadcast Center, with their former Melville facility maintained as the WCBS/WLNY Long Island bureau offices. WLNY currently carries one program from Broadcast Center: a 9pm newscast with WCBS's news personnel from Broadcast Center. ''Live from the Couch'', a morning show airing parallel to ''CBS This Morning'' on WCBS, was broadcast on WLNY from 2012 until early 2014, when it was canceled due to low ratings. HBO satire show '' Last Week Tonight with John Oliver'', Showtime talk show '' Desus & Mero'' a are also recorded at the Broadcast Center. TBS news satire show ''

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'' recorded from the Broadcast Center from its 2016 premiere until the pandemic, before moving to home taping for several months. After that, the latter show moved to Connecticut and a smaller studio without an audience. On March 12, 2020, one day after

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was declared a pandemic, the CBS Broadcast Center was closed for

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after two employees tested positive for COVID-19. Production of WCBS newscasts was assumed by KCBS-TV, while ''CBS This Morning'' was moved to CBS News's Washington studio (used for the ''

'' since December). The Broadcast Center reopened on a limited basis on March 14, 2020, starting with the Saturday edition of ''CBS This Morning'' from Studio 57; on March 18,

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announced that its operations would again temporarily relocate from the Broadcast Center, with ''CBS This Morning'' moving to the set of ''

'' at the

and KCBS-TV again producing WCBS-TV's newscasts. From March 20, WCBS-TV newscasts were presented from the studios of

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and

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broadcaster

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in Stamford, Connecticut, before moving back again to the Broadcast Center, beginning on April 17 with the morning newscast. On the June 21, 2020 broadcast of 60 in 6, Seth Doane partially covered the Broadcast Center's exposure to COVID-19 in a piece titled ''CBS News Battles COVID-19''. The piece mentions that CBS News flew in staffers, including those located in

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and

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in early March 2020 to begin filming promotional material for 60 in 6, which brought COVID-19 positive individuals in close contact with CBS employees which resulted in the shutdown of the CBS Broadcast Center.

Studios

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'' *42: '' Last Week Tonight with John Oliver'' / ''

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from NewscastStudio.com (accessed 3/26/2022) *43:

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(CBS co-productions of NCAA March Madness coverage with

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'' *46:

*47: ''

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'' (Sunday) *57:

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and ''

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'' *57 Newsroom:

References

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