Mount Lee Transmitter Building (Los Angeles, California)

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W6XAO went live in December 1931 in a studio in nearby Gardena before moving in 1932 to a studio at 7th and Bixel atop Don Lee's Cadillac dealership. W6XAO aired the first documented television news coverage — of the Long Beach, California earthquake of 1933 — and the first soap opera, Vine Street. Because transmission was limited to line-of-sight and therefore excluded reach into the San Fernando Valley, a new transmission and studio building was built on this site in 1939. After the end of WWII, the three television broadcasters that were located here moved to Mount Wilson and TV transmissions from Mt. Lee ceased in 1951. The original Streamline Moderne building was replaced with the existing building in the 1990s. The white outline of the old studio can still be seen in the asphalt.


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