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NBC Universal Unveils New Plan For West Coast TV Operations HQ

NBC isn't staying at Burbank. Read both links closely: the Lankershim project (most recent link) is dead; the project across the street at Universal Studios itself (earlier link) is the newly-announced replacement.
 
Well, KNBC unveiled a new look today, starting with this morning on Today in L.A., with the new news studio (including a video screen as a backdrop, similar to what KABC and KCBS/KCAL use for their newscasts) and a new logo. Their website has a photo gallery on the construction of the news set, plus a couple of sceencaps of this morning's Today in L.A. I can assume, much like what KABC did in '99 when they moved from the Prospect lot to Glendale, that KNBC will take the new news set with them over to Universal City; I mean, why spend millions more to build a new brand-new set from scratch when you're moving to a new facility within a year?

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Studio-10-Set-January-2012-137440298.html

Also, there's a story from this morning's L.A. Times Calendar section, featuring an interview with KNBC's president/GM about the station's new look (re-branding the station as NBC4 Southern California), beefing up its news-gathering resources (including new satellite trucks, helicopter and reporters), and trying to improve its ratings (not really much of its own fault; the NBC primetime ratings have pretty much dragged the stations down as a whole).

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-knbc-logo-20120123,0,3549323.story
 
Yeah, nice new look. If you are planning a move you simply don't do this. Look for KNBC at Alameda for years, if not decades to come.
 
NBC has already sold the Burbank studio plant and is leasing it back. They won't be there a decade from now, or even a few years from now.
 
Unless you already own another facility with plenty of space for your operations, which NBCU does over at the Universal lot.
 
OK, I don't think there is any clear solution to this argument. Who knows what NBC-Comcast will do eventually. We know the major retail-studio project on the Universal grounds has been cancelled. I'm certain some of that space will be utilized in some manner, but who knows how much and how much might be sold off. KNBC is good to go in their current location for many years, and again, my belief is they would not have spent so much with their re-do if there was any short-term plan to move. Sure, they could put all that new infrastructure in a large truck and move it, but that also would be expensive. NBC, as a network, may evolve into Universal, but I believe KNBC will be the last to leave.
 
Go all the way back up to the top of this thread and read the link. (OK, I'll spare you the trouble: http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/nbcuniversal-unveils-new-plan-for-west-coast-tv-operations-hq/)

Yes, the retail project (which was not on the Universal grounds but rather across Lankershim) has been cancelled, but NBC/Comcast has already announced a replacement plan to move KNBC and NBC News to the Universal lot itself. It's pretty clear that Comcast sees the Universal lot as its West Coast hub for the future - it's moving Chelsea Lately from rented space in Santa Monica to the now-vacant stage where Conan's Tonight Show was located later this year, too.

And the work that was done on the KNBC set in Studio 10 wasn't anything really massive - it was a freshening-up of a set that's been in use for at least eight years now.
 
searadiofreak said:
OK, I don't think there is any clear solution to this argument. Who knows what NBC-Comcast will do eventually. We know the major retail-studio project on the Universal grounds has been cancelled. I'm certain some of that space will be utilized in some manner, but who knows how much and how much might be sold off. KNBC is good to go in their current location for many years, and again, my belief is they would not have spent so much with their re-do if there was any short-term plan to move. Sure, they could put all that new infrastructure in a large truck and move it, but that also would be expensive. NBC, as a network, may evolve into Universal, but I believe KNBC will be the last to leave.
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I don't know how familiar you are with the Los Angeles area, but Burbank is a very short drive from Universal City (at least a good 15 minutes on the surface streets)...hell, you can see the entire city of Burbank from the top escalators of Universal Citywalk. NBC, Warner Brothers, and Disney/ABC are all essentially right next to each other in that cluster of downtown Burbank, and if you go 10 minutes east down Route 134, KABC-TV has their broadcast center right next to the highway, just before you hit Interstate 5. Anywho, it's pretty much said and done that Channel 4 (and Telemundo 52, as well as the rest of NBC's operations) will move to Universal City, and it's just a matter of when.

Even despite the re-design of the news set, they can always dismantle it and re-build it in the new place; it's been done before...like I mentioned yesterday, KABC took most of the elements of their news set from the Prospect Studios to Glendale, and CBS did the same when they moved KCBS and KCAL from Hollywood to Studio City in 2007. Scott is right though, it's really a re-freshing (and a nice one at that) of the previous set, as they kept some elements, such the wood paneling.

With the money they're spending to build a new facility at Universal, it'll be chump change for NBCUniversal to move the set and everything (and everyone) else just a couple miles down the road.
 
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