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The building in which the Broadcast Center is located formerly served as a dairy depot for Sheffield Farms. [6] CBS purchased the site in 1952. 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 San Francisco Bay Area is currently defined by Nielsen Media Research as the tenth-largest television market in the United States, [1] with all of the major U.S. television networks having affiliates serving the region. All the major network affiliates are directly owned by the networks.
KPIX-TV (channel 5), branded as CBS Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the CBS network outlet for the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside KPYX (channel 44), an independent station .
The building would not include broadcast studios, [119] which instead were to be consolidated at the CBS Broadcast Center, simultaneously being planned on 57th Street. [ 120 ] [ 121 ] CBS acquired an adjacent land lot on 53 West 52nd Street in July 1961, bringing its plot there to its final size of nearly 48,000 square feet (4,500 m 2 ). [ 122 ]
KPYX (channel 44), branded as KPIX+, is an independent television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside KPIX-TV (channel 5), the market's CBS owned-and-operated station. The two stations share studios at Broadway and Battery ...
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.It is headquartered in New York City.CBS News television programs include CBS Evening News, CBS Mornings, news magazine programs CBS News Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, and 48 Hours, and Sunday morning political affairs program Face the Nation.
West 57th is a newsmagazine television program that aired on CBS from August 13, 1985, through September 9, 1989. West 57th originally premiered as a summer show, and took its name from the New York City address of the CBS Broadcast Center, 524 West 57th Street.
In the early 1940s, the San Francisco Bay area affiliate for the CBS radio network was KSFO, which, because it operated on a regional frequency, was limited to a power of 5,000 watts. CBS wanted to have a station operating at a full 50,000 watts, and an agreement was initially made for KQW and KSFO to swap frequencies — KSFO to 740 and KQW to ...