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Update: 12's new digs

Sammi Brie

Sammi Brie

According to the Phoenix Business Journal:

*The new Channel 12 studio (4,000 sf) will be streetside facing Van Buren (with glass walls, Today Show style!). They hope to be broadcasting from it in January, and by December some newscasts could be done from the Walter Cronkite School and KPNX newsroom while all their (relatively new) equipment is moved to the AZ Republic building. Their current digs on Central (built in 1952, likely for Channel 12) are currently up for sale.
 
Does that mean we'll now get a look at a solid stream of homeless people walking by and waving? ;D

I think I would have picked Central vs Van Buren for a big glass window.
 
Raymie said:
Their current digs on Central (built in 1952, likely for Channel 12) are currently up for sale.
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While the 1101 North Central plant may initially have been "built out" for a TV operation,
it was wishful thinking for a number of years.

The KTYL-TV (original calls) studio site started out in Mesa (the channel 12 COL) in the
area of 2100 West Main Street, with the TV stick out back. I don't think the plant moved
to its phantom COL--Phoenix--until the late 1950s, perhaps in conjunction with the change
of calls from KVAR(TV) to KTAR-TV.
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
Raymie said:
Their current digs on Central (built in 1952, likely for Channel 12) are currently up for sale.
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While the 1101 North Central plant may initially have been "built out" for a TV operation, it was wishful thinking for a number of years.

The KTYL-TV (original calls) studio site started out in Mesa (the channel 12 COL) in the area of 2100 West Main Street, with the TV stick out back. I don't think the plant moved to its phantom COL--Phoenix--until the late 1950s, perhaps in conjunction with the change of calls from KVAR(TV) to KTAR-TV.
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Didn't KTAR radio occupy part of that building while it was co-owned with Channel 12, even while the TV station was still based in Mesa?

I don't remember when I read it, but I do recall seeing a Republic article from that era - 1955 or '56 - that said that the building was being used for the radio station and for TV commercial production. At the same time, KTAR was trying to get the FCC to allow them to move then-KVAR's studios and offices from Mesa to Phoenix (I think the transmitter had already been moved to South Mountain by 1955).

I think the move out of Mesa finally occurred in 1959, but I don't know whether they were required to keep the Mesa studio open after the move. IIRC, the FCC rule was that a station had to have a studio in its COL back in those days.

A similar situation occurred in 1953 with WTTV Bloomington/Indianapolis. That year, Sarkes Tarzian had moved the main studio from Bloomington to Indy (it was the Indy market's NBC affiliate at the time) and the transmitter from B'town to Cloverdale, then later to Trafalgar. But they were still required to keep the old, very small Bloomington studio open and produce a certain number of programs there - a midday newscast and a few IU-related shows in black & white were about it. That studio wasn't shut down until sometime in the mid or late '70s.
 
KeithE4 said:
Didn't KTAR radio occupy part of that building while it was co-owned with Channel 12, even while the TV station was still based in Mesa?
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10-4 Keith. The '54 yearbook (thanks, Old Gringo!) is the first to show KT'R 620 at
1101 N. Central, it was previously addressed in the Heard Bldg.

You're probably correct about the "dual studio locations" for channel 12, at least by
the mid-1950s. The yearbooks/annuals are a bit vague on the TV studio location,
with some showing only the Phoenix address.
 
Can't wait to see this new building. I think this is cool we will have a street side studio in PHX.
 
I dunno. I work just a stone's throw from the Repugnant (if it's news to you, it's news to them) and went past there at lunch today. The part that appears to be ch 12's future street-side studio (on the SE corner of the bldg) is under construction. It looks pretty small. I wouldn't get hopes up too high.
 
Hey Dave,

I hope you don't mind me calling you Dave, I'm Charlie by the way.

I went for a drive over the weekend to go and check out the new digs. I will have to wait and see how things turn out with this new studio.

Your right I may be utterly disappointed. LOL!!!
 
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