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Times Square Studios

Times Square Studios is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Times Square Studios rather than just read about it. In short: Times Square Studios (TSS) is an American television studio owned by The Walt Disney Company, located on the southeastern corner of West 44th Street and Broadway in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The studio is best known as having been the former production home of ABC News' Good Morning America (GMA), a morning news and talk program, segments for other ABC News programs until June 13, 2025, and var…

Key takeaways

Times Square Studios belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Times Square Studios to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Times Square Studios from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Times Square Studios (TSS) is an American television studio owned by The Walt Disney Company, located on the southeastern corner of West 44th Street and Broadway in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The studio is best known as having been the former production home of ABC News' Good Morning America (GMA), a morning news and talk program, segments for other ABC News programs until June 13, 2025, and various programs on ESPN.

Background

Times Square Studios is within 1500 Broadway, on the site of the former Hotel Claridge. In 1972, the hotel was demolished and the current structure, which housed the National Theater, was built. The theater closed in 1998. The New York Times felt that Times Square Studios was meant to be a response to the "Window on the World" Studio 1A NBC had launched at Rockefeller Center for its morning show Today in 1994—which marked an era of dominance for the program over ABC's competing Good Morning America. It was argued that Disney needed its own on-air showpiece in a prominent location, and that "a dynamic Manhattan street scene is now considered an essential production element for a morning show". The facility was designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, Disney's design and development arm, and its senior vice president of concept design Eddie Sotto. The team also worked with Roger Goodman, ABC's vice president for special projects, on its facilities for Good Morning America. Sotto stated that the design of the building was meant to symbolize a "looking glass" and the idea of "media as architecture". The facade of the building also features a video screen and a pair of news tickers, both of which are upgraded with state-of-the-art display technology every few years. Alongside ABC News productions including Good Morning America, Disney also intended to lease space at the studio for other productions. Under the direction of Tim Hayes, notable early productions originating from Times Square Studios included 20/20, Primetime, ABC College Football, NBA Shootaround, The Insider, Entertainment Tonight, and many others between the years 1999 and 2007. The studio began to serve primarily as the home to Good Morning America in 2007 until 2025 and ended their work with most other programs in the facility.

Productions at Times Square Studios

Good Morning America — ABC News morning television program GMA3 — The permanent Good Morning America afternoon counterpart, premiered September 2018 Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (Times Square Countdown New Year Celebrations) — ABC's New Year's Eve live telecast ABC News Election Night coverage, biennially every first November Tuesday from 2000 to 2016 ABC 2000 Today — ABC News coverage of the turn of the millennium celebrations from New Year's Eve (December 31) 1999 into New Year's Day (January 1) 2000 ABC and ESPN — National Basketball Association (NBA) pre-game and half-time updates Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief, 2017 (New York City portions) ESPN College Football — some weekly and Scoreboard coverage, an episode of College GameDay in 2017. Good Morning America Weekend — The weekend version of Good Morning America; outside of special events, the program is recorded at ABC News' main studio at the ABC Television Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan; a Times Square backdrop is projected onto the set's rear-projection screen for continuity purposes ABC World News Tonight — ABC News flagship daily evening television news program Nightline — ABC News late-night news program World News Now — ABC News overnight news program Olbermann — ESPN2 20/20 — ABC News television-newsmagazine program

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Times Square Studios

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Times Square Studios claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Times Square Studios before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Times Square Studios ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Times Square Studios

In research: Times Square Studios appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Times Square Studios in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Times Square Studios is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1999 establishments in New York City, American Broadcasting Company, Buildings and structures completed in 1999, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Times Square Studios outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Times Square Studios in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Times Square Studios means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Times Square Studios out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Times Square Studios in simple terms?

Why does Times Square Studios matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Times Square Studios?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Times Square Studios.