CBS Broadcast Center
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57th Street, 570 West 57th Street, New York City, New York, United States
CBS Sports
WCBS-TV
WLNY-TV
| CBS Broadcast Center | |
|---|---|
 The broadcast center at 524 West 57th Street | |
 Interactive map of the CBS Broadcast Center area | |
| General information | |
| Type | Television studios |
| Location | Hell's Kitchen 57th Street, 570 West 57th Street, New York City, New York, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°46′09.5″N 73°59′22.4″W / 40.769306°N 73.989556°W |
| Current tenants | CBS News CBS Sports WCBS-TV WLNY-TV |
| Construction started | 1952 |
| Completed | 1952 |
| Inaugurated | July 26, 1964 |
| Cost | US$1,000,000,000 |
| Owner | Paramount Skydance |
| Height | |
| Height | 123 m (404 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 38 |
| Floor area | 80,000 m2 (860,000 sq ft) |
| Lifts/elevators | 16 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Eero Saarinen |
| Architecture firm | William Lescaze and Earl T. Heitschmidt |
| Other information | |
| Public transit access |  59 St-Columbus Circle |
| Website | |
| cbsbroadcastcenter | |
The CBS Broadcast Center is a television and radio production facility located on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is CBS's main East Coast production hub, similar to CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles as the West Coast hub. The Broadcast Center is one of two production facilities in Manhattan utilized by Paramount Skydance. The other is the Ed Sullivan Theater, which hosts The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
The nearly block-long facility at 524 West 57th Street in the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan serves as the headquarters of CBS News and its live streaming news channel, and is the main broadcast facility for CBS News, CBS Sports, New York City flagship O&O station WCBS-TV and CBS-owned independent station WLNY. In 2001, BET previously used studios for 106 & Park and other in-studio shows (both BET and CBS were part of Viacom until their 2006 separation by the Viacom/CBS split, later re-merged in 2019). CBS Media Ventures's nationally syndicated newsmagazine Inside Edition is also produced at the Broadcast Center.
The Broadcast Center is also the production base for CBS News Radio. The network's Master Control (aka Central Control) on the first floor also serves as the routing center for other programming distributed by Westwood One (formerly Dial Global). The radio network's flagship station WCBS (AM) was housed in the Broadcast Center from 2000 (moving from Black Rock, CBS's corporate headquarters at 51 West 52nd Street) until 2011 when it relocated to 345 Hudson Street in lower Manhattan, billed on-air as "The Audacy Hudson Square Broadcast Center."
In addition to the Broadcast Center, CBS has one other major studio in Manhattan — the Ed Sullivan Theater (CBS-TV Studio 50) at 1697 Broadway, the home of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The General Motors Building (CBS-TV Studio 58), on Fifth Avenue and 58th Street, was the home of The Early Show until December 31, 2011. The Early Show's successor, the second incarnation of CBS This Morning (predecessor of CBS Mornings), premiered from newly constructed Studio 57 at the Broadcast Center on January 9, 2012.
The CBS Evening News moved into Studio 57 from Studio 47 (previously sharing space with the CBS News newsroom) in December 2016.[1] From December 2019 to January 2025 CBS Evening News broadcast out of Washington, D.C., moving back to the broadcast center in 2025.[2] ViacomCBS announced in May 2021 that CBS This Morning would vacate the Broadcast Center for the MTV Studios.[3][4] The move was completed on September 7, 2021, when CBS This Morning rebranded to CBS Mornings.[5] On September 29, 2025, CBS Mornings moved back to the CBS Broadcast Center from Times Square studio.[6][7]
