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CBS Broadcast Center closed

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...g-show-late-shows-ed-sullivan-theater-1285179

Update CBS is moving "This Morning" to the studio that Stephen Colbert does the late show as the main offices for CBS News deals with staff members with COVID-19.


Network president Susan Zirinsky thanked executive producer Chris Licht and "the Colbert crew."
Last Wednesday, CBS News president Susan Zirinsky announced the temporary closure and cleaning of two network buildings in New York City due to an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. But she said that she expected both buildings to reopen Monday of this week.

In a new memo Wednesday morning, however, Zirinsky told staffers that the buildings will not be opening.

"We all have to make daily adjustments to our lives during this health crisis," she wrote. "In an abundance of caution, ViacomCBS is temporarily moving operations out of the Broadcast Center/555 Building and diversifying locations. This applies to all CBS divisions, including Sports, WCBS TV, COE operations and, of course, CBS News."

Starting Thursday, the network's morning show — CBS This Morning — will broadcast from The Ed Sullivan Theater, home of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
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The CBS morning show from the Ed Sullivan Theater. I think I've seen it all now. Albeit NBC used it for their 1992 Election Night coverage.
 
Letterman's first CBS show was Monday, August 30, 1993. So now ya know! :)

Is WCBS-AM 880 still broadcasting from their place in lower Manhattan? Hudson Place perhaps?
 
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/viacomcbs-suspends-sale-cbs-black-rock-headquarters-1285264

Update CBS has suspended the Sale of Black Rock due to the COVID-19 scares

The media giant says it still hopes to sell the building in 2020.
ViacomCBS is suspending the sale of CBS’ New York headquarters, Black Rock, citing the quickly evolving coronavirus pandemic.

Despite the delay, the company says it still hopes to sell the Eero Saarinen-designed office building in 2020.
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CBS This Morning from the Ed Sullivan Theater actually looks pretty good. They have put a traditional C-shaped anchor desk (instead of the Eye Device round desk) in the space where Colbert would normally give his monologue.

Colbert's desk can be seen in the background, but otherwise this looks like a fairly normal newscast.
 
TheBigA said:
Aha! So Letterman hadn't left NBC yet. He left in 93, and his first show in EST was in the fall of 93.

NBC had leased the theater in Oct 92 for the Phil Donohue 25th, and they stayed there for the elections in Nov 92.
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CBS didn't own the theatre until they signed Letterman.
 
The last program to tape in Ed Sullivan's theater was a musical called Dreamtime, which was a very early example of HDTV. It ran through 1992 and early 1993. Before that it was used by Reeves to tape Kate & Allie.
 
crainbebo said:
The last program to tape in Ed Sullivan's theater was a musical called Dreamtime, which was a very early example of HDTV. It ran through 1992 and early 1993. Before that it was used by Reeves to tape Kate & Allie.
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The company that was producing Dreamtime had an option on the building before CBS took it over, or something similar.
 
Speaking of, I cannot find any videos of that musical, anywhere. Wikipedia article has some cool information about it. They basically videotaped audience members as they walked in and they became part of the show's finale!
 
From the wiki:
When David Letterman switched networks from NBC to CBS, CBS bought the theater in February 1993 from Winthrop Financial Associates of Boston for $4.5 million, as the broadcast location for his new show, Late Show with David Letterman.[9] The existing tenant, Niles' Dreamtime, was given four weeks to vacate. Due to the economics of moving the show and the lack of a comparable available Broadway theater, Dreamtime closed. The quick sale and vacancy of the building earned the realtor the Henry Hart Rice Achievement Award[10] for the Most Ingenious Deal of the Year for 1993
 
https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/cbs-owned-stations-pitch-in-with-national-newscasts

KCBS has also provided anchors, facilities and technical support to WCBS New York, whose staffers can’t work out of the Broadcast Center. WCBS anchors have opened the newscasts from outside the Broadcast Center, and a KCBS anchor tosses to WCBS reporters in the field in New York. KCBS is handling the control room.

On March 20, WCBS did its 5 p.m. news out of YES Network studios in Stamford.

Peter Dunn, president of CBS Television Stations, said his station staffers are happy to help each other, and the network. “These are unprecedented times and the challenges we face at home and work are daunting,” he said. “However, I am very encouraged by the heart, intelligence and creativity being shown by our people. We are truly blessed to have so many smart and resourceful people who are rising to the occasion and helping us continue to serve our viewers and also support our colleagues.”
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Here is an update on the CBS situation.
 
CBS Sunday Morning is being hosted from Los Angeles by correspondent Lee Cowan, from a very small, dark studio. He made sure to tell us that Jane Pauley is healthy, and that the building in New York is closed.
 
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