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* [[The Tonight Show]] (1972-present)
* [[The Tonight Show]] (1972-present)
* [[To Tell The Truth]] (1990-91 on NBC; syndication 2000-02)
* [[To Tell The Truth]] (1990-91 on NBC; syndication 2000-02)
* [[Twenty One]] (2000)
* [[Twenty One (game show)|Twenty One]] (2000)
* [[Wheel of Fortune]] (1975-89)
* [[Wheel of Fortune]] (1975-89)



Revision as of 12:53, 21 March 2006

NBC Studios are the two studio facilities belonging to the National Broadcasting Company, with one of them being located 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, before it was incorporated into the television operations of Universal Pictures, forming the NBC Universal Television Studio.

The New York Studios

Located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza (on 49th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues) in Manhattan, this historic building houses the headquarters of the NBC television network, its parent General Electric, and its local owned & operated television station, WNBC-TV (Channel 4). NBC moved into its Rockefeller Center studios in 1936, and has remained there since. 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 just a few miles north of downtown Los Angeles and northeast of Hollywood. Dedicated on March 27, 1955, this facility was known back then as NBC Color City, as the studio was equipped exclusively for color broadcasting. 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), and two other local stations. The studios of Warner Bros. and The Walt Disney Company are located in the same neighborhood in Burbank. NBC Studios-Burbank was responsible for producing some of the best remembered game shows of the late-1970s and 1980s, 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 only television-specific studio facilities in Hollywood that offers tours to the general public.

NBC Tower

The network's Chicago-based studio center is located on North Columbus Drive 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 the 1940s. 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. In addition to housing these entities, the studios were/are home to the following:

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