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. There is also a secondary one that serves as a relief for the New York studios in
Marblehead, Massachusetts. 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
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 NBC's
flagship station WNBC (Channel 4), as well as
cable news channel MSNBC.
When
NBC Universal relocated,
24-hour cable news television network
MSNBC joined the network in New York on that day as well. The new studios/headquarters for
NBC News and MSNBC are located in one area.
The first
NBC Radio City Studios began operating in the early 1930s, and tours of the studios began in 1933. NBC offers guided tours of their New York studios at a cost to tourists.
Because of the preponderance of radio studios, that section of the...
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