[BC] NBC: Bye, bye, Burbank...

[Dennis Jones]

I lived 5 minutes from there. I have been through plant many times. 
It was all 1st class, up to date and yet "Old School" at the same 
time. I had the great fortune of attending a Bob Hope birthday party 
there. It was like stepping inside your TV set, and NO photos allowed 
though. The line out side on the side walk for the "Tonight Show" 
would tell you what time it was. And it seemed someone always was 
protesting....something. That area has changed drastically and is 
still going to do so more. My little place in Toluca Lake sold for 
what you could buy a small country for in some places.

At 05:56 PM 10/11/2007, you wrote:
>It would be very interesting if NBC did some kind of "Farewell to 
>Burbank" special before the Cats fire up, but for some reason I get 
>the feeling that the network is more interested in forgetting its 
>past than remembering. To think that that facility may become the 
>site of another high-priced SoCal condo development is hard to 
>swallow right now.
>
>On the technical side...I have a copy of the IRE Transactions on 
>Broadcasting, with an article on NBC's Burbank VTR facility--16 
>machines to do network delay in an automated fashion. Fascinating stuff...
>
>That must have been one heckuva patch bay...I'll bet that the 
>full-time guy who did the patching had dreams like the one Paul wrote about!
>

Dennis Jones
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