Day Eighty Eight -- Closer Still

Eighty Eight working days into this studio construction project, we're seeing the end in sight.

The contractor's portion of the studio itself is almost complete. The wall behind the ladder used to be the front of our old building, so it needed to be patched where they removed our old front door. All of the studio walls have been painted "CBS Gray". If seen on television, the walls will appear to be white, but will not reflect back into the camera more light than it can handle. A pipe grid from which to hang our studio lights, and a curtain track and curtains will be installed either by us or by a lighting system contractor. The concrete floor needs to be cleaned and sealed, and the studio should be ready for those final touches.

This is a close up of one of the special air conditioning ducts used in the studio. There are three long fabric "tubes" which are perforated along their lengths. The cool air from the A/C units inflates these ducts and "oozes" out the perforations to drop gently to the studio floor. This provides more even distribution and, more importantly, very quiet operation.

Here is our new reception area as viewed from the new front door. As you can see, ceiling tiles have been installed, and all that remains is floor covering to complete this area. The opening in the background leads into our old building, part of which is being remodeled as a part of this project.

Here in one of the remodeled offices in the old building lies the ends of the computer network and telephone cables which have been pulled into the new offices and control rooms. This entire bundle will be pulled over the suspended ceiling in the old building into the transmitter room where all of the telephone and computer terminal equipment is located.

As a part of the remodeling of the old building, the wall between two of our former edit rooms has been removed to make a larger room which will be used as a kitchen, break room, conference room combination.

This photograph, taken yesterday, shows the forms being placed for the sidewalks. Early this morning, the sidewalks were poured and the forms removed.

It won't be long now!