The other day, I linked you to a great site about CBS Television City in Hollywood, a wonderful complex that is arguably in Hollywood. During my career in television — and before it, back when I found ways to roam the halls of big TV studios — I got to extensively prowl NBC in Burbank and ABC over in Los Feliz. But even though it was the one closest to my home, I never got enough time at CBS. I wrote a lot of shows for CBS but all but one either taped elsewhere or were animated…so I never quite learned my way around the place and often got lost.
Here's a 10 minute history/tour and I'm not sure where it's from but I can guess. The host is a lovely gent named George Kirgo who had a wonderful career as a writer-producer of films and TV shows, a stint as President of the Writers Guild of America, West during its nasty 1988 strike, and an occasional career as a TV panelist or critic. He reviewed films and covered TV for a while for The CBS Morning Program and I'm guessing this is from that…or some related endeavor. Here's a piece I wrote about him after we lost him in 2004 and here he is showing us around that big building at Beverly and Fairfax…