Hugh Downs "Concentration" or Alex Trebek "Classic Concentration"?  (Never 
understood why that show was called "Classic Concentration" - other than 
Coke's bungling of their own brand in the 80's seemingly make Classic 
somehow cool again...)

On Friday, March 30, 2018 at 12:55:18 PM UTC-4, daniel anderson wrote:
>
> *Concentration *used to tape in the studio that *Days* uses now. i can't 
> remember but *Sale of The Century* and *Wheel of Fortune* taped in 3; did 
> Jay Leno use that studio too?
>
> On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 12:27:17 PM UTC-5, Kevin M. (RPCV) 
> wrote:
>>
>> Days is the last of the NBC shows still produced at what is now the 
>> non-NBC “The Burbank Studios.” The old Johnny Carson studio is now an “e 
>> sports” arena where people go to watch other people play games on their 
>> phones. 
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:34 AM daniel anderson <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Burbank did almost all of the NBC game shows in the 1980s- "Sale of the 
>>> Century," "Wheel of Fortune," and "Scrabble" among others. Doesn't "Days of 
>>> Our Lives" still film in Burbank? 
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 5:29:33 PM UTC-5, Jim Ellwanger wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > On Feb 13, 2018, at 1:26 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: 
>>>> > 
>>>> > There were a few hot buttons in the control rooms of a few of the 
>>>> Nightly News studios that could be pressed to go live, bypassing Skypath. 
>>>> I 
>>>> know of a handful of instances when those buttons were pressed 
>>>> accidentally; hilarity ensued. 
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, the closed-captioner who was monitoring NBC's feed was always at 
>>>> the ready to dial in to the modem for "studio 3B" (or whichever one was 
>>>> being kept "hot" for special report purposes). 
>>>>
>>>> I was never entirely clear on how things were working on the video 
>>>> transmission side of things, but I do know that "Tonight Show" captions 
>>>> went to a modem in Burbank, while "Late Night" (and "Later") captions went 
>>>> to New York. Because there was a seamless transition between the shows, 
>>>> there was some rigamarole involving the backup modem in the control room 
>>>> and a production assistant -- by which I mean me -- being nervous about 
>>>> accidentally disconnecting the wrong modem at the wrong time. (The 
>>>> captions 
>>>> for the late-night shows were prepared in advance via an audio feed of the 
>>>> taping, but were sent out "live" as they aired.) 
>>>>
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