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* ''[[Frank Sinatra]]'' ''[[A Man and His Music]]'' (1965)
* ''[[Frank Sinatra]]'' ''[[A Man and His Music]]'' (1965)
* ''[[Go (game show)|Go]]'' (1983-1984)
* ''[[Go (game show)|Go]]'' (1983-1984)
* ''[[Generations (tv series)|Generations]]'' (1989-91)
* ''[[High Rollers]]'' (1974-76 and 1978-80)
* ''[[High Rollers]]'' (1974-76 and 1978-80)
* ''[[Hollywood Squares]]'' (original version hosted by [[Peter Marshall (game show host)|Peter Marshall]], 1966-80, and briefly the John Davidson version in 1986)
* ''[[Hollywood Squares]]'' (original version hosted by [[Peter Marshall (game show host)|Peter Marshall]], 1966-80, and briefly the John Davidson version in 1986)
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* ''[[Sammy Davis, Jr.|The Sammy Davis Jr. Show]]'' (1966)
* ''[[Sammy Davis, Jr.|The Sammy Davis Jr. Show]]'' (1966)
* ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' (1972-present)
* ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' (1972-present)
* ''[[Time Machine (game show)|Time Machine]]'' (1985)
* ''[[To Tell The Truth]]'' (1990-91 on NBC; syndication 2000-02)
* ''[[To Tell The Truth]]'' (1990-91 on NBC; syndication 2000-02)
* ''[[Twenty One (game show)|Twenty One]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Twenty One (game show)|Twenty One]]'' (2000)

Revision as of 23:42, 23 June 2007

NBC Studios was also a previous name for NBC's production division, which is now Universal Media Studios, formerly NBC Universal Television Studio.

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.

The New York Studios

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30 Rockefeller Center, also known as the GE Building, is the world headquarters of NBC.
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, WNBC (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:

  • Colonial Theater*, 1887 Broadway at 62nd Street (original version of The Price is Right hosted by Bill Cullen, 1953-63; Colgate Comedy Hour)
  • Hudson Theater, 141 W. 44th Street (Tonight hosted by Steve Allen, 1954-57).
  • Ziegfeld Theatre, 141 W. 54th Street at Sixth Avenue (The Perry Como Show, Concentration primetime 1961)).
  • 67th Street Studios, 101 W. 67th Street (the Home show with Arlene Francis 1954-57, Concentration primetime 1958), now demolished and the site of the Millennium Tower.
  • Century Theater, 232 Seventh Avenue at 59th Street (Caesar's Hour with Sid Caesar, 1954-57).
  • Brooklyn Studios* (now JC Studios), 1268 E. 14th Street in Midwood, Brooklyn (many 1950s color "Spectaculars" such as Peter Pan; it is also where the soap opera Another World was produced from 1964 until its cancellation in 1999).
  • International Theater, 5 Columbus Circle (Admiral Broadway Review 1949), demolished 1954.
  • Ambassador Theater, 215 W. 49th Street.
  • Center Theater, 1236 Sixth Avenue at 49th Street (Texaco Star Theater with Milton Berle; Your Show of Shows, 1950-54), demolished 1954.
  • Uptown Studios (now Metropolis Studios), 105 E. 106th Street at Park Avenue.
  • New Amsterdam Roof Theater, 214 W. 42nd Street.
*Equipped for color production.

These facilities are no longer used by NBC.

The Burbank Studios

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. Dedicated on March 27, 1955, this facility was known back then as NBC Color City, as the studio was said to be 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).

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.

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.

NBC Tower

NBC Tower in Chicago, Illinois

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 Merchandise Mart building, 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:

References

allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3ADiff%2F140202106