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Title: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: WhammyPower on September 28, 2017, 07:06:38 AM
What would happen to Price is currently unknown.

https://therealdeal.com/la/2017/09/27/cbs-interviewed-brokers-to-sell-its-television-city-campus-sources/
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: johnnya2k3 on September 28, 2017, 03:24:03 PM
The days of network-owned TV studios in Los Angeles is gradually coming to an end.

ABC and KABC moved from Prospect Avenue to Burbank and Glendale respectively; NBC and KNBC, from "Beautiful Downtown" Burbank to Universal City; and now CBS could be following suit with TV City though TPIR, Young and the Restless, Bold and the Beautiful, and The Late Late Show are their only four shows being done there (plus of course dozens of non-CBS shows like Dancing With The Stars and others too many to name).

/Hope the new owners, whoever they be, won’t turn it to an IKEA like they did with ITV’s old Granada Studios.
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: BrandonFG on September 28, 2017, 06:39:51 PM
A little speculation. I'm guessing this is the result of so many TV shows now taping in states like Louisiana, Georgia and Virginia? There had been a downward slide of LA-based shows over the last decade, and I imagine single-camera sitcoms becoming the norm contributed to this.

Even though game shows are back in a big way, I think TPiR is the only one taping at TV City, no?
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: PYLdude on September 28, 2017, 07:09:44 PM
Aren't a lot of CBS' in house productions taping at Paramount now anyway?
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: aaron sica on September 28, 2017, 08:03:50 PM
Even though game shows are back in a big way, I think TPiR is the only one taping at TV City, no?

I believe you're right - when I went out to see Price, I asked about LMAD, and was told it tapes in Van Nuys, if I'm not mistaken.
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: cmjb13 on September 28, 2017, 09:36:37 PM
This really isn't new. At least in regards to Price, there were rumblings back in 2004.

http://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php/topic,4110.msg39794.html#msg39794 (http://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php/topic,4110.msg39794.html#msg39794)
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: MSTieScott on September 28, 2017, 10:00:03 PM
A little speculation. I'm guessing this is the result of so many TV shows now taping in states like Louisiana, Georgia and Virginia?

It's more that being directly next to The Grove makes the Television City property very valuable. For example, if a developer could turn that spacious area into luxury apartments, there's a lot of money to be had.

Here's an article from the Los Angeles Times (as linked to by user "TVC" on Golden-Road.net): http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cbs-television-city-20170928-story.html

Even though game shows are back in a big way, I think TPiR is the only one taping at TV City, no?

On a regular basis, yes. The 2015 revival of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? taped at Television City. I know the first season of the current To Tell the Truth also taped there (though the On-Camera Audiences website says the show has since moved to CBS Studio Center). It looks like Celebrity Family Feud still tapes at Television City, too.
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: Chief-O on September 28, 2017, 11:00:52 PM
Even though game shows are back in a big way, I think TPiR is the only one taping at TV City, no?

On a regular basis, yes. The 2015 revival of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? taped at Television City. I know the first season of the current To Tell the Truth also taped there (though the On-Camera Audiences website says the show has since moved to CBS Studio Center). It looks like Celebrity Family Feud still tapes at Television City, too.

And there's a lot of non-GS production in there as well. As far as I know, "Real Time" still shares 33 with "Price", while the other "original" studios are chock full of CBS soap business. Corden's upstairs in 56, and "Dancing With the Stars" is filling 46(?) as we speak. Even if TV City is sold, I could see it remaining busy......more so than NBC Burbank or ABC Prospect have recently been, perhaps.
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: johnnya2k3 on September 28, 2017, 11:09:17 PM
CBS News' L.A. bureau was also upstairs at Television City until they moved to the Studio Center in 2008 (they were never at Columbia Square -- longtime home of KNXT/KCBS -- as many thought).

Oh, and I believe "The Big Moment" also called TV City home.
It's more that being directly next to The Grove makes the Television City property very valuable. For example, if a developer could turn that spacious area into luxury apartments, there's a lot of money to be had.
Like they did with the former BBC Television Centre (which was Britain's -- or Europe's, for that matter -- answer to TV City)?

Days Of Our Lives, by the way, is the only NBC show still taped in what's now The Burbank Studios, though I wished KCET, after disaffiliating with PBS, leased some space there after selling their longtime (and historic, going back over a century) Hollywood studios to the Church of Scientology.

And some Disney Channel shows should've been produced at Prospect instead of Sunset Las Palmas Studios (formerly Hollywood Center Studios).
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: aaron sica on September 28, 2017, 11:12:11 PM
CBS News' L.A. bureau was also upstairs at Television City until they moved to the Studio Center in 2008 (they were never at Columbia Square -- longtime home of KNXT/KCBS -- as many thought).

Who? Who thought?
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: BrandonFG on September 29, 2017, 01:22:57 AM
On a regular basis, yes. The 2015 revival of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? taped at Television City. I know the first season of the current To Tell the Truth also taped there (though the On-Camera Audiences website says the show has since moved to CBS Studio Center). It looks like Celebrity Family Feud still tapes at Television City, too.
I forgot about Celebrity Feud...had no idea that 5th Grader and TTTT were there.
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: Jimmy Owen on September 29, 2017, 01:25:21 AM
No more Bob Barker studio.  Is that what's eating the Bois?
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: ChrisLambert! on September 29, 2017, 08:34:18 AM
I'd like to think that I am not a crackpot, but I'd be sad if Price moved. It really feels like 33 is a character in the show.
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: johnnya2k3 on September 29, 2017, 05:45:36 PM
I'd like to think that I am not a crackpot, but I'd be sad if Price moved. It really feels like 33 is a character in the show.
It would be like as if Saturday Night Live is kicked out of legendary Studio 8H at 30 Rock.

/We should be thankful NBC didn’t call Studio 8H "The Lorne Michaels Studio" (though it was originally a radio studio)
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: cmjb13 on September 29, 2017, 07:03:16 PM
No more Bob Barker studio.  Is that what's eating the Bois?
Nah, they'll just storm the city council demanding it be declared an historical landmark.
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: jjman920 on September 29, 2017, 11:36:13 PM
Nah, they'll just storm the city council demanding it be declared an historical landmark.
I mean go ahead and joke, and perhaps this is an overstatement, but I think the historic impact of the shows filmed at TVC could qualify it as a historic landmark.

Is The Ed Sullivan Theater a historic landmark?
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: Adam Nedeff on September 30, 2017, 03:05:54 AM
Is The Ed Sullivan Theater a historic landmark?
Yes it is. Bill Carter's book "The Late Shift" touches on how the renovation before David Letterman moved in proved more expensive than anticipated, specifically because the building was a historical landmark, and they were mandated to restore certain elements of the theater instead of tearing them out.
Title: Re: CBS may be selling TV City
Post by: clemon79 on September 30, 2017, 12:47:10 PM
Yes it is. Bill Carter's book "The Late Shift"

Again: who am I going to have to fark to get this in a Kindle-friendly format?

/crappy scanned PDFs are not Kindle-friendly