Hollywood Sign building for the antennas. From 1939 to 1947, this site was the location of the studios and transmitter of the first television station in Los Angeles, W6XAO (now KCBS-TV), founded by The Don Lee Network, hence the name Mount Lee. The TV studio left this location in 1948, and the transmission facility left in 1951, moving to the higher Mount Wilson. Land in the vicinity of the sign was purchased by Howard Hughes in 1940, who planned to build a hilltop mansion at Cahuenga Peak for actress Ginger Rogers. Before long Rogers broke off their engagement and the lot remained
Hollywood on the Tiber epics began to decline following the commercial failure of "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964), although films in other genres such as David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) continued to be profitable. In 2009 a documentary film "Hollywood on the Tiber" was released. It portrays Cinecittà and the various stars who worked there between 1950 and 1970. Hollywood on the Tiber Hollywood on the Tiber is a phrase used to describe the period in the 1950s and 1960s when the Italian capital of Rome emerged as a major location for international filmmaking attracting a large number of foreign productions to