‘Today’…The Transition From Studio 8G to 3B, June 1990

This is a great clip and shows the last minutes in 8G and the first minutes in 3B. Although Bryant Gumble say’s, in a slip if the tongue, his goodby to 8H, he meant to say 8G. Due to the demands of SNL production, a daily show could never be done in 8H.

Their last day in 8G was Friday, June 9, 1990. The next day, the show debuted from studio 3B. Prior to the 8G location, ‘Today’ had come from studio 3K where it began to be broadcast in color after moving “inside” form it’s former street side locations in the RCA Exhibition Hall and later, the Florida Showcase studio.

This is quite an interesting clip and shows Deborah Norville, Gumbel and Willard Scott taking a close look at the new digs. The cameras look to be Ikegami HK 322s perhaps. Enjoy and share!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wSnGb0V9X4

During the northern hemisphere summer of 1990 the bright, chic living room style NBC Today set, in use since 1985, was dismantled and partly re-assembled ups…

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