NBC Studios (Burbank)

NBC Studios (Burbank)

The NBC Studios in Burbank California is located at 3000 West Alameda Avenue in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank, just a few miles northeast of the Hollywood area. It is one of three facilities owned by the network in America, the other studios are in New York City and Chicago, respectively.

Although the first phase of this project was completed in September 1952 and a few black-and-white programs were broadcast from there for two and a half years, the facility was officially dedicated on March 27, 1955. It was known back then as NBC Color City, since a recently-completed studio at the complex is said to be the first TV studio equipped exclusively for color broadcasting.

A next full phase of the project was finished in November 1962, which accommodated the move of the network's Los Angeles station, on Channel 4, from Hollywood to Burbank. Channel 4 changed its call letters from KRCA to KNBC upon the move.

In fact, it was the first major color television studio in the country to be built from the ground up. Today, besides being home to NBC's west coast flagship station KNBC, it also houses the network's West Coast broadcast operations, its Los Angeles news bureau, as well as the Telemundo network's local owned & operated station, KVEA (Channel 52), and Spanish independent station KWHY (Channel 22).

The studios of Warner Bros. and The Walt Disney Company (includes rival network ABC) are located nearby in the same neighborhood.

This studio facility was responsible for producing some of the best remembered game and variety shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, including The Tonight Show from 1972, when Johnny Carson moved the show to California from New York, until 2009, when Jay Leno handed hosting duties to Conan O'Brien. The short-lived The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien was filmed a few miles away at Universal Studios. However, when Leno returned as host of the The Tonight Show in 2010, The Tonight Show once again tapes from Burbank.

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Move to Universal City

In mid-October 2007, the network announced that it intends to move most of its operations by 2011 from Burbank to a new complex across the street from Universal Studios in Universal City.[1] It would retain an office presence at the current Burbank site, though most of the studio complex will be sold. The park and ride lot for the Metro Red Line Universal City Station currently occupies the future site of NBC West Coast.

In preparation for the move The Ellen DeGeneres Show moved nearby to the Warner Bros. Studios in 2008, and when Conan O'Brien took over hosting, The Tonight Show moved to an all-digital studio in the Universal Studios Backlot in 2009. The Jay Leno Show continued to broadcast from the NBC Burbank studios as Leno's Tonight Show had, though moving from Studio 3 to 11. Since March 1, 2010, the Tonight Show is taped at Studio 11 and will be until at least 2018.[2]

Program history

Today, the studio houses Last Call with Carson Daly, Days of our Lives, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Access Hollywood, and its daytime companion show, Access Hollywood Live. Programs produced here over the years include:

Program Network/Station Years Taped Studio
Access Hollywood Syndication 1996–present 1, 5
Access Hollywood Live Syndication 2010–present 1
The All-New Jeopardy! NBC 1978–1979 3
All Star Secrets NBC 1979
Amen NBC 1986–1991
The Andy Williams Show NBC 1962–1967; 1969–1971
An Evening with Fred Astaire
(TV special)
NBC 1958
Baffle NBC 1973–1974
Battlestars NBC 1981–1982; 1983 3
Blank Check NBC 1975
Blockbusters NBC 1980–1982; 1987 2, 3, 4
Bullseye Syndication 1980
Card Sharks NBC 1978–1981 3, 4
Celebrity Sweepstakes NBC, Syndication 1974–1977
Chain Letter NBC 1966
Chain Reaction NBC 1980 2, 4
Channel 4 News KNBC 1962–present 5"N",10
Chico and the Man NBC 1974–1978
Classic Concentration NBC 1987–1991 3
C.P.O. Sharkey NBC 1976–1978 3
Days of our Lives NBC 1965–present 9
The Dean Martin Show NBC 1965–1974
Dream House NBC 1983–1984 3
Designing Women CBS 1986–1987
The Don Knotts Show NBC 1970–1971
The Don Rickles Show NBC 1968–1969
The Ellen DeGeneres Show Syndication 2003–2008 11
Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special
(TV special)
NBC 1968
The Facts of Life NBC 1987–1988
Family Feud Syndication 2000–2003 1
Fight Back! with David Horowitz Syndication 1980–1992 5"P"
The Flip Wilson Show NBC 1970–1974
Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music
(TV special)
NBC 1965
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air NBC 1993–1996 11
The Funny Side NBC 1971–1972
Generations NBC 1989–1991
Go NBC 1983–1984 2
The Gong Show NBC, Syndication 1976–1979
High Rollers NBC 1974–1976; 1978–1980 3
Hit Man NBC 1983
Hollywood Squares NBC, Syndication 1966–1980; 1986 3
Hot Potato NBC 1984 2
In the House NBC, UPN 1995–1999
I'll Bet NBC 1965
It Could Be You NBC 1956–1961
It Pays to Be Ignorant Syndication 1973–1974
It Takes Two NBC 1969–1970
It's Anybody's Guess NBC 1977 3
It's Your Bet Syndication 1969–1973
The Jay Leno Show NBC 2009–2010 11
The John Davidson Show Syndication 1980–1981
Just Men NBC 1983 2
Last Call with Carson Daly NBC 2005–2009
Let's Make a Deal NBC, Syndication 1963–1968; 1984–1985; 2003 1, 4
Letters to Laugh-In NBC 1969
Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour NBC 1983–1984 3
Make Your Own Kind of Music NBC 1971
Mindreaders NBC 1979–1980
The Midnight Special NBC 1972–1983 4
The Nat King Cole Show NBC 1956–1957
PDQ Syndication 1965–1969
Passions NBC, DirecTV 101 Network 1999–2008
Password Plus NBC 1979–1982 3
People Are Funny NBC 1956–1961; 1984
People Will Talk NBC 1963
Punky Brewster NBC, Syndication 1984–1988 11
Real People NBC 1979–1984
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In NBC 1968–1973
Sale of the Century NBC, Syndication 1983–1989 3
The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show NBC 1966
Sanford and Son NBC 1972–1977 3
Santa Barbara NBC 1984–1993 11
Saved by the Bell NBC 1989–1993
Saved by the Bell: The New Class NBC 1993–2000
Scrabble NBC 1984–1990; 1993 2
Sonny With a Chance Disney Channel 2008–2009 11
Super Password NBC 1984–1989 3
Supermarket Sweep Pax TV 2000–2004 1
Time Machine NBC 1985
To Say the Least NBC 1977–1978
To Tell The Truth NBC, Syndication 1990–1991; 2000–2002 1, 3
The Tonight Show
(Johnny Carson and Jay Leno)
NBC 1972–2009; 2010–present 1, 3, 11
Three for the Money NBC 1975
This is Your Life NBC 1958–1961
Truth or Consequences NBC 1960–1965
Tomorrow NBC 1973–1974; 1977–1979 1
Twenty One NBC 2000 1
The Weakest Link NBC, Syndication 2001-03 1
Welcome Back, Kotter ABC 1975-76
What's This Song? NBC 1964–1965
Wheel of Fortune NBC, Syndication 1975–1989 4
Wordplay NBC 1986–1987 4
You Bet Your Life/The Groucho Show NBC 1960–1961
You Don't Say! NBC 1963–1969
Your Number's Up NBC 1985 2

It is one of the few television-specific studio facilities in Hollywood that offers tours to the general public.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117973843.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
  2. ^ [1]

Coordinates: 34°09′15″N 118°20′01″W / 34.15408°N 118.33348°W / 34.15408; -118.33348


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