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.) >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
