Radford Studio Center, Television production facility in Studio City, US.
Radford Studio Center is a television production facility in Studio City within the San Fernando Valley featuring several large sound stages and production buildings. The campus extends across multiple city blocks and includes outdoor sets, office towers, and technical facilities for film and television work.
The site originated in May 1928 as Mack Sennett Studios, among the first professional production complexes in the Valley. After several ownership changes, the lot became one of the most heavily used studios for television series.
The studio's name comes from Mack Sennett's 1928 Studio City lot, which gave the surrounding neighbourhood its name. Visitors can spot the CBS eye logo with a white numeral 2 and the words "STUDIO CENTER" on the pale brown stucco wall along Radford Avenue. Stage 3, the original Gladiator Arena from American Gladiators, is kept in its original form and used for tours and group events.
The facility sits at the intersection of Radford Avenue and Ventura Boulevard and can only be partially viewed from the outside, as it primarily functions as a workplace for production teams. Public access is generally limited to organized tours or events.
The Central Park backlot set can be filled with water to form a pond or swamp, so productions need no location shoot for such scenes. The New York Street exterior set was built in the mid-1990s for filming Seinfeld. Stage 3, the original Gladiator Arena from American Gladiators (taped here 1991–1996), is kept in its original form and used for tours and group events.
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