[BC] CBS uniformity under Frank Staunton

[Xen Scott]

At 10:34 AM 12/31/2006 -0500, Rich Wood wrote:

>According to long-time friends who did time at CBS, Stanton was 
>compulsive. When Black Rock was built employees couldn't have family 
>pictures on their desks. Any picture in an office had to come from the CBS 
>art collection (separate from the Paley collection). Most companies have 
>trade dress colors. CBS had trade dress everything. It was elegant but 
>didn't have a very human touch...

I remember seeing the five studio control rooms at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia 
when the station
was a CBS O&O.  Any piece of rack mounted equipment that would have been 
delivered by the manufacturer in some other color had been repainted in CBS 
gray.  I particularly remember
Grass Valley and Richmond Hill stuff, usually in green, was CBS gray.  All 
five control
rooms were identical in layout with a very uniform color appearance, except 
for one which
was laid out in a mirror image reversal.  It made the audio position a 
little awkward because
all the turntables and cart machines were no longer in arm's reach of their 
pots on the
audio console.

Xen Scott