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8-619: Chelsea Studios , also known as Chelsea Television Studios , is an American television studio and sound stage located at 221 West 26th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Chelsea, Manhattan , New York City . The building was originally an armory which was home to the Ninth Mounted Cavalry, which moved to 14th Street in 1914. Adolph Zukor turned it into a studio for the Famous Players Film Company . Among
16-677: A television production studio , is an installation room in which video productions take place, either for the production of live television and its recording onto video tape or other media such as SSDs, or for the acquisition of raw footage for post-production . The design of a studio is similar to, and derived from, movie studios, with a few amendments for the special requirements of television production. A professional television studio generally has several rooms, which are kept separate for noise and practicality reasons. These rooms are connected via ' talkback ' or an intercom , and personnel will be divided among these workplaces. The studio floor
24-470: A US television station is the place where the on-air signal is controlled. It may include controls to playout pre-recorded television programs and television commercials , switch local or television network feeds, record satellite feeds and monitor the transmitter(s), or these items may be in an adjacent equipment rack room. If the program is broadcast live, the signal goes from the PCR to MCR and then out to
32-445: Is occasionally also called a studio control room (SCR) or a "gallery" – the latter name comes from the original placement of the director on an ornately carved bridge spanning the BBC 's first studio at Alexandra Palace , which was once referred to as like a minstrels' gallery . The vast majority of devices in a PCR are interfaces for rack-mounted equipment that is located in
40-417: Is the actual stage on which the actions that will be recorded and viewed take place. A typical studio floor has the following characteristics and installations: While a production is in progress, people composing a television crew work on the studio floor. The production control room is the place in a television studio in which the composition of the outgoing program takes place. The production control room
48-484: The Central Apparatus Room (CAR). The central apparatus room (CAR) houses equipment that is too noisy or runs too hot to be located in the production control room (PCR). It also makes sure that coax cable , SDI cable , fibre-optic cable or other wire lengths and installation requirements keep within manageable lengths, since most high-quality wiring runs only between devices in this room. This can include
56-470: The actual circuitry and connections between: Master control is the technical hub of a broadcast operation common among most over-the-air television stations and television networks . Master control is distinct from a PCR in television studios where the activities such as switching from camera to camera are coordinated. A transmission control room (TCR) is usually smaller in size and is a scaled-down version of centralcasting . The master control room in
64-472: The films produced there were An American Citizen and That Man from Mexico starring John Barrymore . In the 1950s, Himan Brown bought the studio and gutted it to create two sound stages known as Production Center Studios. In the 1960s and 70s, Brown leased the facility to CBS for soap opera productions. As of February 2019, it is owned by All Mobile Video. Source Source Notes Television studio A television studio , also called
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