CBS may be selling TV City

[WhammyPower]

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/

[johnnya2k3]

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.

[BrandonFG]

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?

[PYLdude]

Aren't a lot of CBS' in house productions taping at Paramount now anyway?

[aaron sica]

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.

[cmjb13]

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

[MSTieScott]

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.

[Chief-O]

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.

[johnnya2k3]

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).

[aaron sica]

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?

[BrandonFG]

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.

[Jimmy Owen]

No more Bob Barker studio.  Is that what's eating the Bois?

[ChrisLambert!]

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.

[johnnya2k3]

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)

[cmjb13]

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.