ABC Center

ABC Center, by Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=607663 / CC BY SA 3.0 #History of Asahi Broadcasting #Non-existent building in Kita-ku, Osaka #Once-existing Japanese TV studio #Radio Studio#The 9th BCS Award#Japanese building completed in 1966#Facility opened in 1966#Facility closed in 2008#Building dismantled in the 2010s Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings ABC Center ABC Center seen from Umeda Sky Building Surroundings (September 2007) The ABC Center was the former office building of Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC, now Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings), located at 2-chome Oyodo Minami, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture from June 1966 to 2008. It is a general term for blocks including adjacent related facilities. The Asahi Broadcasting Corporation headquarters building, which is the core facility, has 4 TV studios, 4 radio studios, a public broadcasting hall “ABC Hall”, etc. On the south side of it is the Hotel Plaza across the square, and on the west side is the Osaka Tower. had been installed. In addition, the area around the center was dotted with Asahi Broadcasting’s annex building, buildings housing affiliated companies, and The Symphony Hall. From 1989 to 1998 and 2001, we were able to see a full-view image of the ABC Center created by CG even in the broadcast start and end images of ABC TV. On the site where Kansai Okura Gakuen moved to Ibaraki City in June 1966, the TV (using the former Osaka Television Broadcasting office building) and radio (Shin-Asahi Building) studios and halls that were dispersed in Nakanoshima were integrated. Completed the head office building. After that, surrounding facilities such as Osaka Tower and Hotel Plaza were constructed to expand the scale. At the time of completion, the area around the building was inconvenient with only warehouses and town factories, and even the road in front of the building was unpaved. In the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995, the corridor connecting the east side of the office building with the office floor and the west side near the tower where the studios are lined up was torn and partially destroyed by the earthquake, scattering concrete and facing the outside of the Nissan Gallery on the first floor. Damage such as broken glass (described later) occurred. A piece of concrete also fell in close proximity to a technical staff member in the radio control room on the west side of the building. However, the deterioration of the building over time became noticeable, and on May 18, 2008, the head office function was moved to a new building in Fukushima 1-chome (Hotarumachi), Fukushima-ku, Osaka. On June 23 of the same year, the transmission master (main control room, analog/digital integrated TV master and AM radio broadcast master both using NEC) was switched to the transmission master of the new office building, and all the head office functions of Asahi Broadcasting were moved to the new office building. moved. Even after moving to the new building, some recorded programs (radio) were recorded at the same center, but with the closure of ABC Hall on August 5 of the same year, the curtain closed on the 42-year history. After the complete relocation to the new company building (Hotarumachi), all buildings other than The Symphony Hall will be demolished, and it has been decided that the site after demolition will be redeveloped into commercial or residential facilities. Hall → Osaka Tower → Hotel Plaza was dismantled in order. The former site of the facility has been converted to a parking lot, etc., but in January 2017, five companies, including Sekisui House, Mitsubishi Jisho Residence, and Tokyu Land Corporation, jointly acquired the former site and built a tower condominium with a maximum height of 178m. It is reported that there are plans to build The name is “Grand Maison Shin-Umeda Tower THE CLUB RESIDENCE” and it is scheduled to be completed in 2022. In addition, the ABC Center was introduced in detail on the April 22, 2008 broadcast of Gokigen! Brannu (ABC TV) under the title “Goodbye Oyodo Office Building Feature”. There was a time when the Vericard during the ABC Center era was a paper craft in the old company building. From the time of its completion, Studio A was equipped with equipment compatible with color broadcasting in anticipation of the popularization after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1970 Osaka Expo. In addition, there was also D Studio at the time of completion. From around April 2008, with the operation of the new company building A studio, the programs that were being produced at the former company building A studio “Gokigen! Blancnu”, “Morning! Namadesu Tabi Salad”, and “Panel Quiz Attack 25”. was sequentially switched to production at the new company building A Star. In addition, the programs “Good Morning Asahi”, “Move!”, and “ABC NEWS Yu”, which had been broadcast at Studio B, were moved to Studio A due to the relocation of the B Studio equipment to the new building, and on June 23 of the same year. At the same time as the new company building cutover on the day, it was switched to production at the new company building. In addition, on April 29th of the same year, the environmental special program “Save the Glass Earth” was broadcast live from the new company building A studio for the first time.In addition, on May 6th, the new company…