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fcifit <mW Ul4tt ■ Built for Color from the Ground Up: NBC's New TV Studio in California New west coast television headquarters is model of efficiency. A MAMMOTH color television studio, built in Bur- bank, California at a cost of $3,600,000, will swing into action early in 1955 as West Coast headquarters for color programming of the National Broadcasting Com- pany. First studio ever to be built from the ground up specifically for colorcasting, it was designed by NBC engineers on the basis of years of NBC pioneering in the design and technical operation of color television studios. One of the world's largest studios, its floor space is 140 feet by 90 feet, with 42 feet of clearance from floor to ceiling. The Burbank studio is equipped with the latest elec- tronic developments of the Radio Corporation of Am- erica, and has the world's most elaborate television light- ing system. It is a major step in the RCA-NBC master blueprint for extending leadership in color television. The studio fits into a carefully conceived plan for the development of the NBC center at Burbank. It takes its place with two huge black-and-white studios and a service building, all of which were constructed on NBC's 40-acre tract in 1952. Besides the color studio itself, the new construction includes a control building, a technical building and a rehearsal studio which can also be used for commercials and orchestral scoring. In addition, the service building, housing set-decoration shops and other facilities, has been extended to double its former size. The color studio, one of the most spacious ever built, is the first NBC studio designed for both live and film colorcasting. Among many unique features is an audi- ence pit which can be covered over to become part of the studio floor. The lighting system, with a capacity of one-million watts and with 2400 lighting controls and 1260 outlets, is the largest ever installed in a tele- vision studio. Equipment already on hand includes four RCA color cameras and a Houston Crane. The studio has some revolutionary new electronics and stage equipment. It is equipped with a Century Izenour lighting board, a complex arrangement of some 2400 controls which permits the pre-setting of lighting for 10 scenes, double the number that was possible with previous systems. The board, moreover, permits 10 changes of lighting within any one scene. The studio also has a large-screen color projector, newly developed by RCA, which allows the studio audience to watch the performance on a movie-size, 15-by-20 foot screen. Adjoining the color studio is the two-story control building. On its first floor are dressing, make-up, quick- change rooms and other accommodations for the artists. The second floor is devoted entirely to technical facil- ities. Here are the control rooms for the director, for video, audio and lighting. Here, too, is space for tech- nical equipment including the revolutionary new RCA pre-set switching system, which greatly simplifies the business of changing from one camera to another. RADIO AGE 19