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CBS Television City in Los Angeles
CBS Television City is a television studio located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles' West Side at 7800 Beverly Boulevard, at the corner of Beverly and Fairfax Avenue. It is one of two CBS studios in the area—the other is CBS Studio Center, located in the Studio City section of the San Fernando Valley, which houses additional production facilities and the network's Los Angeles local television operations.

Television City opened its doors on November 15, 1952; it was built on the site of a former racetrack , the former home of the Pacific Coast League baseball team Hollywood Stars (Gilmore Field), and before that, it was an oil field.

Gilmore Field was part of a sports complex that included Gilmore Stadium and the Pan Pacific Auditorium. The stadiums and auditorium were built on what was once 287 unincorporated acres known as Gilmore Island, and the fortune that led to their construction had origins similar to a television sitcom plot.

Arthur Fremont Gilmore brought his family to Los Angeles from Illinois in 1874, started a dairy business and eventually made enough money to buy part of Rancho La Brea, roughly bounded by Beverly Boulevard, 3rd Street, Fairfax and La Brea avenues. Gilmore sold the stadium to CBS in 1950, and that year's Turkey Night Grand Prix midget race (now held at Irwindale Speedway) was the last race run on its track. Two years later, CBS built Television City on the site.

The stark modern architecture at CBS Television City consists of black and white planes meeting at razor-sharp corners, with accents of dazzling red, the work of Pereira & Luckman of Los Angeles. The studio facility was built to handle the larger production needs for the network, most of which took place at the rather cramped Columbia Square.

The building initially held four soundstages (Studios 31, 33, 41 and 43), but a renovation in the late 1980s added four new soundstages plus additional office space and technical facilities such as editing rooms and storage.

CBS programs were generally in black and white until the fall of 1965, with the exception of a few specials produced at NBC studios and Red Skelton's weekly programs (which were taped at another Los Angeles studio that Skelton had purchased, during the early 1960s).

Television City finally began taping programs in RCA's compatible color in the fall of 1965 and by the following year all programs were in color.

Its most famous soundstage is The Bob Barker Studio, Studio 33, which is the current home of the long-running CBS game show, The Price is Right, the syndicated game show Family Feud (making its third appearance, 1988-95, 1999-2000 were the others) the HBO late night series, Real Time With Bill Maher. This soundstage recently broadcast an episode of the Australian chat show Rove Live live via satellite to Australia.

This soundstage was also the home of The Carol Burnett Show in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as notable game shows, Match Game (the old 1970s - 1980s Gene Rayburn hosted version & 1998 version), Hollywood Squares (the recent version hosted by Tom Bergeron), Bullseye, and the 1980s revival of Card Sharks. In March 1998, on the 5000th episode of The Price is Right after Studio 33 (actually the 5131st episode), CBS re-dedicated the soundstage The Bob Barker Studio, in honor of the show's longtime host and executive producer.

When sitcoms were increasingly taped in front of a studio audience in the 1970s, many shows were recorded on soundstages at CBS Television City, such as All in the Family, Maude, and Good Times. The ABC sitcom Three's Company was also taped at CBS Television City.

CBS Television City is also home to CBS' visual effects studio, CBS Digital. "Television City" is a registered trademark of CBS for its TV production facilities.

"From Television City in Hollywood..."

These are shows that originated from this historic television studio. Almost every show taped here used the title line in the opening spiel. All shows aired on CBS unless noted:

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  • CBS Television City is also the name for a research facility and merchandise store, operated by CBS, located in the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • The facility doubled as the fictional "City of Broadcasting" in the 1996 film, That Thing You Do!
  • Screeching Weasel released a 1998 album entitled Television City Dream
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CBS Studio Center is a television and film studio located in the Studio City district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. It is located at 4024 Radford Avenue and takes up a triangular piece of land, with the Los Angeles River bisecting the site.
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Studio City is a four-square-mile district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. It is bounded roughly by Ethel Avenue to the west, Highway 101 to the north and east, and Mulholland Drive and the Santa Monica Mountains to the south.
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Hollywood Stars were a minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast League during the early and mid 20th century. There were actually two different teams which played in Los Angeles as the Hollywood Stars, as rivals of the Los Angeles Angels.
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Gilmore Field is the name of a former minor league baseball park that served as home to the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League from 1939-1957 when they, along with their intra-city rivals, the Los Angeles Angels, were displaced by the transplanted Brooklyn Dodgers of the
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The Price Is Right is an American game show centering on contestants guessing the retail prices of featured prizes and other promotional products. The current version premiered on September 4 1972 on CBS and was hosted by veteran game show host Bob Barker until his
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Family Feud is a television game show that pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed of 100 people.
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The Carol Burnett Show is a sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967 to March 29, 1978 for 278 episodes, and originated from CBS Television City's
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