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NBC Studios are the two television studio facilities belonging to the National Broadcasting Company, with one of them being located inside the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in New York City, and the other located in Burbank, California, just outside of Los Angeles.
A third NBC production facility, the NBC Tower, is located in Chicago, Illinois. NBC Studios was also the name of the network\'s production arm (previously NBC Productions), before it was incorporated into the television operations of Universal Pictures, forming the NBC Universal Television Studio, now known as Universal Media Studios.
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Ground-level entrance to same building
Located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza (on 49th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues) in Manhattan, the historic GE Building houses the headquarters of the NBC television network, its parent General Electric, and its local owned & operated television station, NBC (Channel 4).
The first NBC Radio City Studios began operating in the early 1930s, and tours of the studios began in 1933.
Because of the preponderance of radio studios, that section of the Rockefeller Center complex became known as Radio City (and gave its name to Radio City Music Hall). Even into the present decade, tickets for shows based at 30 Rock bear the legend "Radio City."
Among the shows produced there are/were:
Some other New York originated programs were produced elsewhere in New York City, including:
These facilities are no longer used by NBC.
NBC\'s West Coast production center is located at 3000 West Alameda Avenue in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank, just a few miles northeast of the Hollywood area.
Although the first phase of this project was completed in September of 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. (However, photographs exist in the Library of American Broadcasting which show RCA monochrome cameras in Burbank Studio 1.)
In fact, it was the first major color television studio in the country to be built from the ground up. Today, it houses the network\'s local owned & operated station, KNBC (Channel 4), the network\'s Los Angeles bureau, as well as the Telemundo network\'s local owned & operated station, KVEA (Channel 52), Spanish independent station KWHY (Channel 22), and the master control of the local Ion television station, KPXN (Channel 30). It also houses the Master Control for KNTV (NBC11) San Francisco.
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, and it rivals CBS Television City as the premier television production facility on the West Coast.
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.
Programs produced here over the years include:
It is one of the few television-specific studio facilities in Hollywood that offers tours to the general public.
The network\'s Chicago-based studio center is located at 454 North Columbus Drive (455 North Cityfront Plaza is also used as a vanity address for the building) in downtown Chicago\'s Magnificent Mile area. This building opened in 1989, after the network moved its offices and its owned and operated station, WMAQ-TV (Channel 5) from the 20th floor of the Merchandise Mart, where it had been based since 1930.
WMAQ and NBC are the primary tenants of this building, along with Telemundo\'s Chicago-based owned & operated station WSNS (Channel 44), but there are other companies that conduct business here, including CBS Radio\'s WSCR-AM (670), which was WMAQ\'s sister station as WMAQ-AM (which had also been in the Tower from 1990-2000 before their conversion to WSCR; WSCR moved to the Tower and WMAQ\'s former studios in 2004).
In addition to housing these entities, the studios were/are home to the following shows:
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