big apple: NBC studio tour

Another post on New York because you can never talk too much about the Big Apple :o) I also took a tour through the NBC-headquarter, located in the Rockefeller Center. Unfortunately you were not allowed to take any pictures, but they had a lot of stories to tell...
Hightlight of the tour was definitely the visit of several studios, among them the studio where they present America's number 1 newscast in the evening: "Nightly News" with Brian Williams. The studio is a so-called "hot studio", meaning it can be set up for a breaking news-story within 2 minutes. NBC broke its own records during the bombing of the London subway last years - from the time the TV-network received the news of the bombing until they went live on TV it took them just 29 seconds!!!

We also catched a glimpse of the studio where they record the show >"Saturday Night live" (although the show isn't live at all). Funny detail: The chairs for the audience are original seats from the New York's Yankee Football Stadium in bright yellow. And every time Donald Trump shows up he gets the seat 1A - of course I had to touch this chair :o)