‘CBS Evening News’…29th Floor, Graybar Building Location
‘CBS Evening News’…29th Floor, Graybar Building Location
As I wrote earlier today, in the post just before this, the famous newsroom we see here was located in The Graybar Building which is adjacent to Grand Central Terminal.
The first time we see this is during the debut of television’s first daily half hour news broadcast on CBS, September 2, 1963. As I mentioned earlier, this set was recreated almost exactly when the show moved to the CBS Broadcast Center in late 1964. The biggest change would be the line of teletype machines that would be installed on the wall to the right of Cronkite as you view him through the camera.
The map wall to his left, and even the “fishbowl” office would be part of the surroundings, but the fishbowl something we never saw…till now.
Please click on each individual photo to read the detailed captions I have included. There is some very interesting new information there! Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
I’m surprised that they turned the cameras off at all. I wonder if the cameras were warming up, or engineers were just going through a setup procedure on focus charts, etc.
Picture 1 and 3 show a RCA BK5 mic on the desk while the last shows an EV 666 making it a later picture.
I believe this was the actual studio where Walter Cronkite did his live broadcast beginning at 2:00 PM, 11/22/1963. It took over 20 minutes to warm up the cameras. Prior to 2:00 PM, he used a radio studio with a “BULLETIN” slide on the screen in the mean time.