CBS Columbia Square
| CBS Columbia Square | |
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CBS Columbia Square in April 2007
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| Location | 6121 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California |
| Coordinates | 34°05′54″N 118°19′23″W / 34.098293°N 118.323087°WCoordinates: 34°05′54″N 118°19′23″W / 34.098293°N 118.323087°W |
| Built | 1938 |
| Architect | William Lescaze |
| Architectural style(s) | International Modernism |
| Official name: CBS Columbia Square Studios | |
| Designated | March 10, 2009 |
| Reference no. | 947 |
 Location of CBS Columbia Square in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Location of CBS Columbia Square in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Location of CBS Columbia Square in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
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CBS Columbia Square, located at 6121 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, was the home of CBS's Los Angeles radio and television operations from 1938 until 2007. The building housed the CBS Radio Network's West Coast facilities, as well as CBS's original Los Angeles radio stations, KNX and KCBS-FM. KNXT-TV, Channel 2 (now KCBS-TV) moved into the complex in 1960, and the CBS Television Network's West Coast operations were based there until it moved to the larger CBS Television City in November 1952. After its purchase by CBS in 2002, KCAL-TV moved to the Square from studios adjacent to CBS's then-corporate sibling Paramount Pictures. Between 2004 and 2007 all of these operations moved to other facilities in the Los Angeles area.
Columbia Square was built for KNX and as the Columbia Broadcasting System's West Coast operations headquarters on the site of the Nestor Film Company, Hollywood's first movie studio. The Christie Film Company eventually took over operation of Nestor Studios and filmed comedies on the site, originally the location of an early Hollywood roadhouse. Prior to moving to Columbia Square, KNX had been situated at several Hollywood locations.
Columbia Square was designed by Swiss-born architect William Lescaze in the style of International Modernism and built over a year at a cost of two million dollars — more money than had ever been spent on a broadcasting facility.
Lescaze's sweeping streamline motifs, porthole windows and glass brick were true to Modernist design, though CBS President William Paley insisted the Square's form follow function. In his dedicatory speech, he remarked, "It is because we believe these new Hollywood headquarters, reflecting many innovations of design and acoustics and control, will improve the art of broadcasting that we have built them and are dedicating them here tonight."
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