A CBS News report from 1978 on their television program 60 Minutes, reported by Dan Rather; about Disco music. And particularly, the famous Studio 54 nightclub, which, just prior was CBS’s own Studio 52 Radio & Television studio. CBS had put it up for sale in 1976.

CBS had purchased the building in 1943 for use as a radio studio, and with the advent of television; had served as a dual-purpose Radio & Television studio. Under the building’s ownership by CBS, it was known as ‘Studio 52’, assigned in the sequential, numerical order of when they acquired each building for use as a radio and/or television studio; example: “Studio 1, Studio 2, Studio 3, Studio 10, etc.”

CBS had used the location from the 1940’s up until the mid-1970’s that housed such Radio & Television shows as What’s My Line?, The $64,000 Question, Video Village, Password, To Tell the Truth, Beat the Clock, The Jack Benny Show, I’ve Got a Secret, Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour; and Captain Kangaroo. The soap opera Love of Life was produced there until 1975. In 1976, CBS moved most of its broadcast operations to the Ed Sullivan Theater and the CBS Broadcast Center, and CBS had sold Studio 52.

Now, the buildings use as a nightclub does not at all interest me. Only the building’s use by CBS as a Radio & Television studio interests me. Although I do like the music from this time period.