CNN building street-level studio

Found this on TV Insite today (2 stories):

Mimicking the street-level New York studios of ABC News, CBS News and NBC News, Cable News Network said it is building a Manhattan street-level studio in the Time & Life building owned by its parent, AOL Time Warner Inc.

The studio -- which CNN said will be completed by the middle of next year -- will house its new Greenfield at Large program and a new evening newscast that will be hosted by former ABC anchor Aaron Brown.

'This studio will help CNN to interact with the vibrant street life of Manhattan and with the journalists at Time Inc. magazines,' CNN News Group CEO Walter Isaacson said in a prepared statement.

CNN said the bulk its New York staff will continue to work out of its bureau at 5 Penn Plaza until AOL Time Warner completes the construction of a new corporate headquarters at Columbus Circle.

Most of the network's New York operations will move into the Columbus Circle building in 2004, it added.

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CNN officially gets into New York City's street-level studio game today, the New York Daily News reports.

The all-news network is expected to announce plans for the launch of a window-fronted studio in the Time-Life Building. Network brass had publicly discussed such a venture, and today's announcement will get the project moving. Jeff Greenfield's nightly Greenfield at Large talk show and a new newscast with Aaron Brown are to be featured in the high-profile studio setting.

NBC's Today show studio in Rockefeller Plaza and the Fox News Channel's venue on Sixth Ave., are New York's other studio sidewalk attractions.

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This means that every major news operation over here has a NYC street-level studio (the Today show started it about 5 years ago BTW)

(Edited by alekf at 1:53 pm on Aug. 9, 2001)

Oh and there was a fire at MSNBC yesterday, here's the article if you care……

A small fire at MSNBC's Secaucus, N.J., headquarters forced the network to evacuate its studio and cut to taped programming at about 10 a.m. Wednesday.

The fire was 'centered around one of the outlets on one of our projectors,' MSNBC spokesman Mark O'Connor said. The projectors are part of the network's overhead cameras, he added.

MSNBC workers were able to put out the fire before the Secaucus Fire Department arrived, O'Connor said.

MSNBC -- which had cut from live news programming to a taped episode of Time and Again after the fire occurred -- expected to return to live programming 'momentarily,' O'Connor said at 10:45 a.m.

No one was injured, he added.

Imagine someone building something like that in London.
You'd have grafitti all over it before it was even finished.

There's a lot of wood at MSNBC - wouldn't have been pretty.
I wonder what they would've done had the place been destroyed? Broadcast from NY perhaps? Or maybe Washington.

Well when MSNBC first launched their current studio wasn't ready yet (which brings up the question why did they launch then) but the broadcasted from like the office areas of CNBC (which is in nearby Fort Lee, NJ) - if something happened to their studios I'd bet they'd do that again

On the Today show they have crowds that gather outside the window and scream whenever the camera zooms by, but one time, a woman lifted her shirt when the camera was going bay (she wasn't wearing a bra) - and the camera quickly cut back to the presenters -- they were all sitting there just kinda dumbfounded and then they all started to laugh (including the producers and camera men)- it was hilarious.

You Americans!
I would expect MSNBC launched when they did because they didn't want to be the last.
What I mean is, Fox News and MSNBC both annouced plans to launch within a week of each other, or thereabouts. So MSNBC probably wanted to launch first, if only to beat Fox!
When This Morning came from this Albert Dock, they had loads of people shouting stuff. Lilly Savage started throwing champagne flutes into the River Mersey once!!
I remember seeing a film, not sure which one, but MSNBC featured strongly in the film - more so than Sky News featured in Independence Day.
It may have been Deep Impact, but whatever it was, it wasn't using the MSNBC studios!

Yep, Deep Impact!