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Seeing Stars: the Television Studios..
NBC STUDIOS
3000 West Alameda Avenue,
Burbank, CA. / (818) 840-3537 or (818) 840-4444
In 2007,
NBC reported that the studio will leave "beautiful downtown Burbank",
the historic studio where Johnny Carson and Jay Leno taped "The Tonight
Show" and Bob Hope taped his annual specials.
NBC is
planning to sell the land (34 acres in all) and will reportedly relocate
its facilities to a new, state-of-the-art facility planned for Universal
City, just north of Universal Studios Hollywood, near the existing Red
Line station. (Universal is owned by NBC.) The new headquarters (to be
called "The West Coast News Headquarters") won't be finished
until 2011, so NBC will probably lease back some of the studio space until
their new facilities are ready for prime time.
"The
Tonight Show", will reportedly move to Stage 1 at Universal Studios
Hollywood.
The
bottom line: You had better hurry if you want to take the NBC Studio
Tour...
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Studios
in Burbank is the only network TV studio which offers a guided tour. For
more information about the tour, see separate
page about tours.
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National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is the pioneer network that gave us
Milton Berle,
"Bonanza," "Dragnet," "Rowan
& Martin's Laugh In," "Sanford & Son,"
"Cheers," "Wings," "Seinfeld,"
the annual Bob Hope
specials, Johnny Carson's
"Tonight Show" and the Huntley &
Brinkley news team. Not to mention the
famous NBC peacock logo. Elvis Presley
even taped his Christmas special here at this
Burbank studio, in 1968.
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In the early 2000's
NBC was the hottest network on the air, with hits such as "Seinfeld,"
"Friends," "Frasier," "The West
Wing," "Mad About You," "Just Shoot Me,"
"Third Rock from the Sun," "Caroline In The City"
"NewsRadio," "Suddenly Susan, "
and the NBC Nightly
News with Tom Brokaw.
However, most of
those shows have run out of steam, and NBC is now trailing in the ratings
race again - in the last week of January 2006, it didn't have a single
show in the Top Ten ratings.
But it continues
to entertain & inform us with high-rated shows such as "Will
& Grace," "Law & Order,"
"Crossing Jordan," "Scrubs," "My
Name is Earl," "Fear Factor," "ER,"
"Dateline" and, of course "The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno", the #1 talk show.
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For more information
about getting tickets to the tapings of NBC shows, see the separate
page about tickets.
.gif) Getting
there: NBC Studios is located in Burbank,
bordered by the Ventura (134) Freeway (on the south), Alameda Avenue (on
the north), California Street (on the west), and Bob Hope Drive (on the
east). / From the Ventura (134) Freeway east, take the Bob Hope
Drive offramp; turn left (north) on Bob Hope Drive (go back under the freeway),
then turn left again (west) on Warner Street.
(Incidentally,
Bob Hope's
house is just a few blocks down the street, at 10346 Moorpark Street, and
Johnny Carson Park
is directly across the street!)
[For
more information, you can access NBC's official website at
http://www.nbc.com.]
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