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Terrific Tour: NBC Offers Inside Look At Its Election Sets Via Drone
I found this really neat, not a word a use that often. It's a video NBC News posted on Twitter a few days before the American midterm elections, showing off their sets and equipment, as well as a large part of what I can only assume is 30 Rock.
Especially interesting is that they used a drone to "fly" through the various sets - and there seem to be a lot of them - and while there is some editing, it mostly seems to be done in a single shot. Or so it appears. The video is just over four minutes long.
All in all, an inside look at something you don't get to see very often.
NBC Election Studio Drone Tour Video
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A very impressive video.
Thanks for sharing
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Wow! Well done NBC.
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I wonder how long that took to set it all up. It's quite amazing.
I have only one NBC story and it happened a very long time ago. I was working for CFTR and they sent me to New York City to do a series of news interviews that had I previously set up. I was both young and stupid (as opposed to the way I am now, old and stupid - some things never change) and called up the head of publicity at WNBC-AM asking to see her, because I was secretly hoping to snag a rare free radio T-shirt, which I collect. When I told her who I worked for, she told me to come on over, so I did.
That took a lot of chutzpah but it's what happened when I got to 30 Rock that's stayed with me all these years. This was long before 9-11, and I guess security wasn't what it is today. I was stopped at the front entrance, explained who I was and was eventually given a pass to show I belonged in the building.
What happened next would never happen today. Instead of someone coming down to get me, they told me her office was on the 3rd floor, and to take the elevator to get there. So I rode up the lift, got off and suddenly realized I was alone, wandering freely in NBC Studios in Rockefeller Center, with no one asking me who I was or why I was there.
As long as I was wearing the pass, no one stopped me and I remember wandering past 66 WNBC studios and taking a look inside. I did a bit of quick sight-seeing, but had to get to her office within a normal amount of time, so I finally found it and went over there.
But imagine being let loose at NBC and wandering around to go almost anywhere you wanted with no one asking you who you were or why you were there. That would never happen today, nor should it! But it certainly was fun that morning.
And yes, I got the shirt! It's seen better days (who hasn't?), but that's it below. 
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What a neat video, and it's impressive to see how so much of what was once a very utilitarian and shabby facility has been classed up in recent years.
If I followed the drone's path correctly, it started in Studio 1A, which is actually across the street from 30 Rock at street level. It's usually home to Today and Nightly News. Then we go into Control 1A - then under the street, up to the street level and then the rebuilt "rotunda" area on the mezzanine level that was once the NBC studio lobby.
Then we go back to street level, through security and into the present NBC elevator lobby. There's a cut inside the elevator, then we come out on the 7th floor, through some of the public tour displays, into one of the 7th floor control rooms and down the audience seating into studio 6A, the old Letterman studio. (Also, ironically, the home of the Dr. Oz show!)
We come out into the 6th floor hallway, across from the Tonight Show studio (6B), then cut again down to the third floor, first in 3C (NBC News Now), then a cut again and we're behind the wall into 3A, the main MSNBC studio.
Very nicely executed!