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Yeah, yeah, We're playing sidewalk Superintendent. Ladies and gentlemen, we're at the corner of Greenwich and Venice Avenues in San Francisco. This busy corner at the moment is complete with every type of paraphernalia needed for construction of a large building. The building is the new KPIX Television

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studios. Yes, In order to meet the demands of you viewers for new programming, better productions and more hours of programming, we've combined it into a new three story building. Construction, as you see, is rapidly underway. We're going to talk a little later to Al Town, our

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chief engineer, and George Mass Matheson, the technical engineer who has been in charge of this construction and ask them all about it. We notice the beam on which we're standing covers a large hole. Exactly what that's for. We don't know, but we're going to ask them

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to tell us about it too. And right now, I see them on the other side of the big lot here, where the construction is taking place. I would like to go over and talk to them and find out what is going into this building. What television

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needs in the way of equipment, power, electrical material that's quite unique to this business. We'll walk around over here and, uh, we untangle ourselves. This is one of the things that you don't find in a normal television studio. Microphones being fought on beams going over there.

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I see Al Town over there are head will black out your screen for a second. But, uh, Al, this is, uh, the viewers for whom you are helping putting up a large studio. Would you tell us something about it? The building is going to be about

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40 feet and height overall, about 70 ft wide, 140 ft long. And now those are very technical for a moment about how high you mean equivalent to what I say. A two story building, three story building that will compose a three storey height and all, which

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makes it two thirds for television and one third for standard broadcast. I think it's obvious from the nature of the steel here that it's going to be a very substantial building. It will be reinforced with concrete, and it's even provided for expansion. The strength of the

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beams and columns will support even addition on the top. Another story, then can be added at a later date of it's necessary. We haven't overlooked the future possibilities of expansion in this business. You always have to keep that in mind. One or two things about it.

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Al, Uh, you said the area now will be how much again. Well, the total floor space will be about 25,000 square feet. I think that gives a fair idea of what is involved in a building of this type that probably is over twice what is being

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utilized in the present operations. What was that big hole we were crossing there? Well, that's contain many thousands of dollars and equipment. Television requires many, many tubes, and actually there'll be racks and racks of equipment, and, uh, it's probably become the future master control for all

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of our television operations. Now the $64 question. When do you think the studios will be ready? Well, that's a good question. We hope to be an actual operation. In other words, be able to push buttons toward the end of the year, Uh, sooner if possible. Right

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now, Now, town. Ladies and gentlemen, Chief engineer at KPI. Ex uh, we'd like to talk to George Matheson. If we could you come over here, George. Thanks very much for talking to us, George. We're going to get all the information we can from you about the

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studios itself. How many will there be? What type will they be and so forth? Well, they're going to be three studios for KPI X approximately three times the area we have in our present studios. The large studio, which we saw right at the beginning of the

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program, is studio. And that's going to be about the whole over that. No, not the whole the weekend, across the at the beginning. That's right. That's going to be studio in the area. There's about three times our present area, plus a lot of more ceiling height,

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things like that, which are going to give us a lot better programs and enable us to do a lot that we can't do now. In addition to that, there are two other studios one for the kitchen and a second studio for, uh, combined remote studio operation.

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The big, big remote truck can be used in the studio. In other words, we can go out and do a remote and come back and, if necessary, back the truck right into the studio. And there we have facilities for doing another program. So like in the

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case of a special event, the news program, that's an emergency, he said. As we can do that, that's that. Sounds wonderful. What about the control room? I understand that's going to be all glad. Basically So yes, the big hole that you saw right at the beginning

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behind us here is the equipment room, and in that you've probably heard I'm going to be located on the power supplies and switching equipment and, uh, camera control equipment. Things like that, they're going to be about 30 racks of equipment down there. We have facilities for

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for about nine or 10 permanently mounted studio cameras in addition to our remote cameras and then on the floor above that, uh, we're going to have all the control rooms, and I'll be one for each of the studios embodying a lot of new ideas. There will

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be no master control as such. That's all going to be taken care of down in the basement by automatic equipment. The big hole again. That's right, The big hole again. And they're going to be separate audio boots for the audio man or the sound part of

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the program. In other words, let me see if we get an example of the distinction between studio cameras and remote. I noticed the gentleman riveter riding on this crane that is similar to the studio cameras. The camera will be on the end of that right charge,

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and it moves automatically know Not so. I mean, that is not necessary. A studio camera is distinguished from a remote camera. Uh, I thought it had a rig of that type of some of them will. You don't use those all the time. Most of the time

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you use the cameras on dollars which roll on the floor so that you can dolly back and forth and so forth. There are camera booms, however, of a similar idea to this thing only not quite so large, which enable you to elevate the camera and at

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the same time, moving in and out, I say, much like we've probably seen in backstage motion picture films showing you that the Hollywood and viewers of kpi excess Fred Waring show I've seen the boom camera on that several times Yeah. It's very good example of how

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the different, uh, anything else charge You think? Well, the KSFO studios are going to be located up here, which is that big space up here. We're going to be four studios up there to audience type studios and two studios which will accommodate, uh, large groups of

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people. Will there be audience studios, audience facilities that the new kpi for us indeed, back in, uh, in the main studio, we have an area about the size of the studio which will be set aside for audiences exclusively. Uh, it will serve a double purpose as

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a lobby and viewing, uh, room for the programs which are going to take place in the studios. And as such, we'll always have facilities for people to come in and review us, and you see it fine, George. Well, thank you very much. I hope, ladies and

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gentlemen, that gives you an idea of why, up to this time, it's been difficult for some of those of you who have written in for tickets to the kpi X programs. Why? We have had to say no. Facilities just do not allow too many people. And

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naturally fire regulations prohibit too many people. But here at the new KPFK Studios, which at the moment is a lot filled with, uh, steel girders, rivets, and, uh, men working, uh, we will have such facilities for you. And of course, at that time, we will be

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able to invite you down to see the program. Now we like to call your attention to the way the man goes up the post there. You wonder how he gets up? He actually shimmies up the post without a ladder. Here goes another load of material up.

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Let's see, just for a second how they handle that. Okay, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The load of steel, of course, is in hand. Today we've been playing sidewalk Superintendent corner of Anna's Avenue and Greenwich Street in San Francisco,

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headquarters of the new A P I X television studios. Three story building, which we understand from our chief engineer out of town will probably be ready for pushing the buttons at the end of this year. George Matheson, who was handling technical details on it, also told

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us about the dimensions and the size. There will be audience facilities so that you can come down and see some of your favorite programs. He told us something about the camera equipment. It's a big hole that we saw at the beginning of the program, which will

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handle all the equipment for the master controlling of remotes as well as studio programs. We hope you've enjoyed this. Look into the future of television as a viewer of KPI X, and we hope that you will have fun with us along the coming months and at

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the end of the year, and we go into these new studios, we hope that you'll be watching that, too. Good night. Mhm. Yeah, sure.