The Great Debate: First televised presidential debate held at CBS Chicago 64 years ago
CHICAGO -- Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will go head to head in a presidential debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday night—continuing a 64-year tradition in television that began at CBS Chicago 's old studios. On Sept. 26, 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy met for the first ever televised presidential debate in Studio 1 at the old CBS Chicago broadcast center at 630 N. McClurg Ct.
Radio Yesterday & Today,' original building architect Andrew Rebori developed a new design for the building as a broadcast center. The CBS Chicago broadcast center opened in 1956—replacing a scattered local operation with studios at the Garrick Theater at 64 W. Randolph St. and the State-Lake Theatre at 180 N. State St.—the latter which, as it happens, is now and has long been the home of ABC 7. The McClurg Court broadcast center later also supplanted CBS offices at the Wrigley Building.
radio operations were housed on the upper floors, while TV studios for -TV, CBS Channel 2, were housed on the ground floor. Four years after the building opened Studio 1 at Channel 2—the largest of four studios on the ground floor—would be the site where Nixon and Kennedy would meet for the first televised presidential debate. Frantic preparation got under way ahead of time. Producer Don Hewitt, who eight years later would go on to create '60 Minutes,' served as the field commander for CBS at the Chicago studios.
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