Well is 4:45 PM on Friday afternoon the sun is out it's about 80°, and the weather is actually very very nice. And yes it will all go to crap in less than 24 hours.
The CBS broadcast Center is a large building, approximately 750,000 ft.², on the west side of Midtown Manhattan. We are between 11th Ave. and 10th Ave., 57th St. and 56 Street so we do occupy all but one small portion of an entire city block. Is the home for various distribution and production entities, including CBS News CBS Sports the local television station WCBS Channel 2. We also do productions for BET, Inside Edition, and several syndicated talk shows. On any day there are somewhere between 2000 and 2500 people working in the complex. Across the street is the home of several of our productions, mostly production offices, and there's another 200,000 ft.² of space there. We also do the distribution for the CBS television networks from the building.
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| Shot today from the West corner of 11th Ave and 57th street |
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| Looking further up the block, 57th street |
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| Closeup of more of the dishes |
The one thing that has kept us very busy today if you see any of the news, as are expecting a storm surge to come up the Hudson River. The Hudson is a small block away from our 11th Ave. and of the building. We are only approximately 14 feet above sea level. Therein lies our most interesting set of problems for the hurricane. I intend on shooting of number of pictures of which I will post some here over the next day and a half. I will be spending the weekend living here at the broadcast center while I conduct various meetings to ensure the viability of the broadcast center for all of our customers who work out of the building.
The best comment was from the CFO for the news division yesterday “does anybody remember the last time we had an earthquake and a hurricane in the same week in New York City?”
That pretty well sums up the fun I think we're going to have.
Bob
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