CBS, NBC First West Coast Homes (With Video) Before there was Television City and NBC Color City, there was CBS Columbia Square and NBC Radio City West. Both were originally built for radio and about a third of their radio shows came from Hollywood. Columbia Square opened in April 1938 and television came there in 1948. The first network television show to originate from the west coast was The Ed Wynn Show which came from Studio A...the same stage that would later be used to kinescope the pilot of I Love Lucy. https://youtube/watch?v=_kuQPbm4FwA At the link is the Saturday, March 25, 1950 broadcast of The Ed Wynn Show, (a/k/a Camel Comedy Caravan) with The Three Stooges. The show was done live on the west coast at 9 PM and shown on the east coast, the next Saturday as 9 Eastern via kinescope. Television came to NBCs Radio City West in January of 1949 when KNBH was launched. NBCs Hollywood studios opened in 1938 and served as a replacement for NBCs radio broadcast center in San Francisco, which had been around since the networks formation in 1927. Since NBC didnt own a radio station in Los Angeles, the networks West Coast programming originated from its San Francisco station (KPO-AM, which later became KNBC-AM, and is now KNBR).
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