• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

I Heart Radio Leases NBC Burbank

michael hagerty

michael hagerty

Will move in after the Tonight Show moves out, according to Radio-Info.com. Concerts, video productions all possible. It's a 10 year lease.

So even if Jay gets a second wind and decides to pursue options with FOX or whomever, it'll require a new studio (there'd been some speculation that Jay and a new employer might lease the facility and keep him in it, since NBC doesn't actually own it anymore).
 
Does "Days Of Our Lives" get to stay at 3000 West Alameda as well??

I suspect that Clear Channel's Los Angles operations, and perhaps even their corporate headquarters, will also move to 3000 West Alameda, since I believe there is now a large block of offices there that have been vacant since NBC moved their West Coast offices to Universal City.

At least it won't suffer the fate of the old Hollywood Radio City (corner of Sunset and Vine) which got demolished after NBC moved to Burbank. Hollywood Radio City (based on old photos I've seen) was a nice art-deco building; if only multiplex cinemas had come into being in the early 1960's; the old studios could have been converted into movie theatre-type auditoriums and the offices could have been leased out.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Does "Days Of Our Lives" get to stay at 3000 West Alameda as well??
Click to expand...

My understanding is that when "Tonight" moves back to New York next year, all the rest of NBC's remaining Burbank operations will move to Universal.
 
If all of Clear Channel's Los Angeles operations move to the NBC site in Burbank, I can see new station ID's for the company's Los Angeles radio stations trumpeting the fact that they are "Broadcasting From Burbank's Historic Color City!" ("Color City" being the original name of the NBC complex, to promote color television, although not used much in recent years).

As an example: "Broadcasting from Burbank's Historic Color City! This is More Stimulating Talk Radio, KFI, Los Angeles, an I-Heart Radio Station!".
 
If that were to happen, it would put KFI where NBC wanted it for many years. From the late 50s onward, NBC kept trying to get Earle C. Anthony to sell KFI to them, giving them an O&O radio station in Los Angeles.

But Anthony believed the most powerful station in L.A. should remain locally owned. He even cooked up a plan to sell KFI to Gene Autry, who would then sell KMPC to NBC (Autry liked the idea because he'd lost the Dodgers' play-by-play to KFI because of their stronger nighttime signal).

Anthony died before the deal could be done, Autry bought the Angels, and Anthony's estate honored his wishes by not selling KFI to NBC. They held it for 12 more years and then sold to Cox, which, within a few years dropped the NBC affiliation.

Had Anthony felt differently, KFI likely would have been at 3000 West Alameda until the late 80s sale of all NBC radio stations.
 
Wasn't "The Burbank Studios" the name used for the combined Warner Brothers - Columbia Pictures (and Screen Gems) lots? Any connection here?

NBC ends up at Universal. NBC originally based its LA operations at RKO (later sold to Desilu and still later merged with Paramount, now co-owned with CBS). Then moved to Hollywood at Sunset and Vine. Then to Burbank.

The move of TV production from New York to LA may actually be reversing. The Tonight Show is returning home. A lot of scripted series set in New York are actually being shot in New York. This trend started with Law & Order. They shot the pilot in New York but original senior detective George Dzundza was surprised when the series sold and he found out he'd have to relocate from LA for the series. Which is supposedly why he left after one year.

NBC did have an owned station in San Francisco. This is where they based the NBC Orange (Pacific) Network. San Francisco was then the West Coast business, financial and advertising center and NBC assumed it was the logical place for their West Coast operations. They did not anticipate how important movie talent would become to radio and later television. Hollywood stars who got into radio early would commute up to San Francisco to do their shows. CBS did not start out with an O&O in LA either, and did not have a Pacific network starting out. They affiliated with the Don Lee Network (Don Lee was another car dealer like Earle Anthony) and CBS shows were carried in LA on KHJ until CBS acquired KNX and set up its own roster of West Coast affiliates. Don Lee then became one of the major shareholders in Mutual. Don Lee also started the TV station which CBS later acquired as KNXT and now KCBS-TV (although CBS also placed it's early bets on San Francisco and KCBS radio is located there).
 
FredLeonard said:
NBC ends up at Universal. NBC originally based its LA operations at RKO
Click to expand...

...Radio Corporation of America, which was NBC's parent at the time, was also the R in Radio-Keith-Orpheum...
 
michael hagerty said:
NBC is definitely becoming more East Coast.

I don't see CBS or ABC making that kind of transition, apart from their news programs.
Click to expand...

the west coast execs moved to Universal City Studios (It's UCS for them)
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom