Leno to 10 PM

[Joe Corcoran]

I took the tour last year and had the opposite experience.  Leno was taping a segment in 3, but we were allowed to go into 1, saw the Access Hollywood set, which is basically on the stage where Carson used to walk out through the rainbow colored curtains, turned around, and there were all the theater style seats from the Carson days.  There were still old RCA ribbon mikes hanging down from the ceilings to pick up the audience.  There is a plaque on the floor of the Access set marking where Johnny's desk used to sit.

We were told there were also other studios across the lot from the building we took the tour in.  I know until this year "Ellen" used one of them, and I believe others were rented out to syndicated game tapings and the like.

Joe Corcoran

-----Original Message-----
>From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
>Sent: Dec 10, 2008 9:50 AM
>To: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net>
>Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
>Subject: Re: Leno to 10 PM
>
><<>And 3 is next door to 1.  See
><http://gallery.bostonradio.org/2008-11/la/>.  When I did the tour,
>"Access Hollywood" was taping, so I didn't get to see whether the
>audience seating was still there in studio 1.
>
>2 and 4 are used alternately: they build sets in one while taping in
>the other.  It was probably different thirty years ago.
>
.
>
>-GAWollman
>