Leno to 10 PM

[Kevin Vahey]

If I remember correctly 4 was the Carson studio. Did they gut out the
audience section when the soap moved in?

Still I would not be shocked to see Conan stay in NYC now for reasons
I mentioned earlier.

On 12/9/08, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote:
> <<On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 20:53:59 -0600, "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
> said:
>
>> NY Times is saying for now the Leno show would stay in Burbank but I
>> thought NBC sold the property.
>
> They sold the property, but the new owner is still intended to lease
> it out as studio space, apparently.  When I took the tour last month,
> the page said that the "DOOL" staff didn't want to have to move four
> decades worth of old props.  (Apparently, rather than splicing in old
> film for flashback scenes, they just reshoot the scene with the old
> props.)
>
> Studio 3 is a pretty good one for Leno, and one that would cost them a
> bit of time and money to replicate over at Universal.  I wouldn't be
> surprised if they moved him eventually -- assuming this new thing
> works out -- but I'm sure NBC worked the numbers on leasing back 3
> versus building another new audience studio at Universal and decided
> that leaving Leno in Burbank was the better choice.
>
> (The current studio assignments at 3000 W. Alameda: "Access Hollywood"
> is in 1, "DOOL" is in 2 and 4, Leno is in 3, and local news is in 5.)
>
> -GAWollman
>
>