On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 12:13 PM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote:
> It baffles me how so many shows do things with such little space. > > On TVO (Ontario's PBS) there was an ater school block of hours called The > Crawlspace. Because it really was a closet. > Tom Snyder’s CNBC Show was produced in what had been an office (maybe 10x20) in the since demolished Catalina Building across the street from NBC’s Burbank studios. The ceiling was so low an average person could touch it while standing. The three cameras were basically locked in place because there was nowhere for them to go. Then they moved in the player piano and it got even tighter. The control room was a closet (videotape, music, and graphics for the the live show were done in New Jersey because there was no room in the Burbank facility). The green room doubled as the makeup room and tripled as the office for CNBC’s West Coast bureau chief. I miss that place. > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 2:30 AM Mark Jeffries, <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> As the man stated, "Hee Haw" was taped at WTVF, the CBS affiliate in >> Nashville (whose calls were WLAC when the show started) in a studio not >> much bigger than a broom closet, so they had to come up with a way of >> taping a national show in close quarters. To give an idea of how >> free-wheeling things were, one day when stagehand Cathy Baker showed up for >> work wearing coveralls, they decided to put her on camera and she delivered >> the show's "That's all!" signoff for the entire run. >> >> By 1981 the show had moved to the much bigger facility at Opryland >> Productions next to the Opry House (which was about to be renamed the >> Nashville Network), but they continued to tape the show in two-to-three >> week spurts in the same manner until they went off the air. >> >> Mark Jeffries >> Saints Spotlight Editor >> [email protected] >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 3:32 AM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> https://twitter.com/gbullard/status/1063285303874441216 >>> >> -- >>> 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. >>> >> -- >> 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. >> > -- > 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.
