The Radio Historian

NBC's Radio City Building in Hollywood

This palatial $2 million NBC Hollywood studio complex at the corner of Sunset and Vine officially opened for business October 17, 1938, and became the new Western Division headquarters. Four large theatre-studios with outside entrances faced Sunset Boulevard, to the right hand side of this image. Each studio had the capacity for several hundred people. There were also four smaller non-audience studios in the interior of the structure.

All West Coast executive offices that had previously been divided between San Francisco and Hollywood were consolidated in the three-story executive building on the left of this image.

NBC Hollywood NBC building in Hollywood

ABOVE: The public entrances to studios "A" and "B" at Radio City in Hollywood.

NBC Hollywood lobby NBC Hollywood master control

LEFT: The three-story-tall main lobby entrance to NBC's Radio City building in Hollywood featured a 45 foot tall mural depicting the "Spirit of Radio". The master control room was at the center of the lobby, where visitors could observe its operation through a glass window.

RIGHT: A close-up of the master control console at NBC Radio City in Hollywood.

$Studio D\$ Control room

LEFT: A view of Studio "D" at Radio City in Hollywood.
RIGHT: The control room for Studio "B".