NBC Studios in the 70s

[Mark]

Hi. just wondering how much bigger the studios at CBS TV City were compared
to NBC's Studios. CBS sets were so much bigger compared to NBC's, and CBS
sounded as if they had a bigger audience. I dont think CBS even used the
canned audience at all or much anyway, compared to the NBC shows that were
full of Mother Mckenzie. That would explain why they had to use it. cause
when the Mckenzie would fade out, u could hear the real audience and it
sounded really small compared to a cbs show. I listened to a few clips of
Concentration with Jack Narz and it was like maybe 100 people were in the
audience... sounded very cheap. Either that or just nobody went to see the
NBC shows

Thanks

[Brian Conn]

In article <ajlh5i$jap$1...@nntp-stjh-01-01.rogers.nf.net>,

Mark <nos...@foru.com> wrote:
>Hi. just wondering how much bigger the studios at CBS TV City were compared
>to NBC's Studios. CBS sets were so much bigger compared to NBC's, and CBS
>sounded as if they had a bigger audience.

[snippo]

>I listened to a few clips of
>Concentration with Jack Narz and it was like maybe 100 people were in the
>audience... sounded very cheap. Either that or just nobody went to see the
>NBC shows

CBS's four main stages (31-33-41-43) are all approx. 100x100 feet (stage
space in 33 is about 5500 sq.ft due to permanent audience seats.
When you add the bleachers in the other stages you take the stage/playing
area down to between 5000-6000 square feet.

NBC's 1-2-3-4-9-11 are all at least 10,000 square feet, but some are
rectangular, rather than square. Bleacher size in some studios was
changable.

Concentration with Narz, for the record was taped at KTTV (Metromedia
Square), not sure which stage, but there was one stage quite large,
the other 3 or 4 stages smaller than CBS and NBC.