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6 unusual facts about Metromedia Square


Edward Nassour

In 1946 the Nassours purchased a four acre lot on Sunset Boulevard and built a studio complex featuring four stages, a projection room, dressing rooms, and offices.

Helen Bernstein High School

Bernstein occupies the former site of the Fox Television Center (formerly Metromedia Square, the longtime home of Fox Television station KTTV).

Hollywood Freeway

The freeway was also designed to curve around KTTV Studios and Hollywood Presbyterian Church.

Metromedia Square

Lear started videotaping his television series here in the fall of 1975, including but not limited to: All in the Family; Diff'rent Strokes; The Jeffersons; Maude; Good Times; Hello, Larry; One Day at a Time; and The Facts of Life.

One of his other classic shows, Sanford and Son, remained taped at NBC Studios in Burbank; its 1980 revival, Sanford, was videotaped at Metromedia.

Shows like the Fox-produced Small Wonder and NBC's Saved by the Bell as well as the sketch comedy series In Living Color, and the first season of MAD TV were among the last series to be taped at this complex.



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