How Big Are The NBC Studios At 30 Rock?
When I saw the Seth Meyers debut Monday night, I wondered why they had not gone with a bigger set, but I had forgotten that with 8H taking up 10,000 square feet of that floor, 8G is actually considerably smaller that the 6th floor studios.
‘The Red Skelton Show’: CBS Television City, Studio 33 This photo from dress rehearsal on January 15, 1957, the first show he had done in several weeks after learning that his 9 year old son, Richard, had leukemia. On December 1, I posted here about how CBS moved their color cameras around in Television City. […]
Picture Parade #1…NBC New York’s Air Cushion Studio Floors Most never knew that under each studio floor at 30 Rock, there are air cushions to prevent vibration from the subway that runs directly under the building. When Rockefeller Plaza was built in 1933, there was an elevated train that ran down 6th Avenue. In later […]
RCA Wireless Mini Camera: 1956 In a publicity photo for 1956 convention coverage, NBC’s Chet Huntley poses with the “Walkie-Lookie” camera, a miniature wireless vidicon camera designed for coverage of the 1952 political conventions. Source
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Small spaces and wide angle lenses-that’s the way TV works.
I had once thought that 8G was the 2nd largest studio, but it is not. It’s not even 3rd. The 2nd largest is in fact Studio 6B. Studio 8G is 30 ft shorter than 6B!
Interestingly, it appears that it was slightly larger when it was constructed based on these floor plans: http://imgur.com/a/CEWYB#2
Thanks to the person who I can’t remember who linked to one of these images before. I was able to find the whole article and extract the plans.
Yup. 8H is massive. The rest, surprisingly small. Every inch is used. Especially when an audience is there.