CBS Studio Center
| CBS Studio Center | |
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CBS Studio Center, Soundstage 2 in Los Angeles
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| Alternative names | Radford Studio Center |
| General information | |
| Type | Television studios |
| Location | Studio City, Los Angeles |
| Address | 4024 Radford Avenue Studio City, California 91604 |
| Coordinates | 34°08′41″N 118°23′28″W / 34.144692°N 118.391008°W |
| Inaugurated | May 1928 |
| Owner | CBS Corporation |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Mack Sennett |
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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. The lot, which is not open to the public for tours, has 18 sound stages from 7,000 to 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2), 220,000 square feet (20,000 m2) of office space, and 223 dressing rooms.
It is one of two studio facilities owned by CBS in Los Angeles, California; the other is CBS Television City on Beverly Boulevard. The company also previously had ownership of two other studios: Columbia Square and the Paramount Pictures lot.
Mack Sennett, a silent film producer and director, came to the San Fernando Valley and opened his new movie studio at this location (at what is now Ventura Boulevard and Radford Avenue) in May 1928. He previously operated a smaller studio on Glendale Boulevard in Echo Park (then called Edendale) where he produced films featuring the Keystone Kops, Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Buster Keaton, W.C. Fields, and Fatty Arbuckle.
After creating the Studio City lot, Sennett in five years was forced to file bankruptcy and the studio lot was sold off to another film company, Mascot Pictures. Mascot, which specialized in serials, renamed the studio after itself. By 1935, another film company, Monogram Pictures, along with Mascot and Consolidated Film Corporation merged to form Republic Pictures Corporation. The studio lot was renamed Republic Studios. The new studio specialized in B-movies, including many Westerns starring the likes of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and John Wayne, all of whom got their first breaks with Republic. In the 1950s, Republic leased studio space to Revue Productions, which filmed many early television series on the lot (including early episodes of Leave It To Beaver) before Revue's owner, MCA acquired Universal Pictures and moved Revue's television production to Universal City. Also, Four Star Productions leased the lot for many of its series like The Rifleman, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, and The Big Valley.
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