NBC Moving Out of Burbank

The Peacock is flying from its long time nest in Burbank. NBC Universal announced Thursday plans to move its entertainment and news divisions from its studios in Burbank to new facilities in Universal City. The company intends to sell off a major portion of its 34-acre studio and office complex home to “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and the KNBC and KVEA-TV news operations and lease back space until the new West Coast News Headquarters and Content Center is completed “The Tonight Show” will move to a refursbished studio on the Universal Studios lot in 2009 when Conan O’Brien replaces Leno as host. The news operations and “Access Hollywood” will move in 2011 into a new state of the art facility to be constructed near a Red Line Metro station. “The West Coast News Headquarters is an incredibly exciting project on the horizon that will set a new standard for newsgathering and environmental design,” said NBC News President Steve Capus. “Today, as we cut the ribbon on a state-of-the-art facility at our world headquarters in New York, we look to Los Angeles as an extension of that — giving us a world-class facility on both coasts, allowing for better collaboration among all our West Coast newsgathering operations, and better serving our viewers both locally and nationally.”