Editing Burbank, California (section)

====Studio Corridor====
Warner Bros., NBC, Disney and Columbia TriStar Home Video (now [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]]) all ended up located very close to each other along the southern edge of Burbank (and not far from Universal City to the southwest), an area now known as the Media District,<ref name="MediaDistrict">{{cite web|last=City of Burbank Community Development Department|title=The Burbank Media District Specific Plan|url=http://www.burbankca.gov/home/showdocument?id=2625|access-date=April 16, 2014|date=January 8, 1991|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416210919/http://www.burbankca.gov/home/showdocument?id=2625|archive-date=April 16, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Media Center District or simply Media Center.<ref>{{cite web | title = Burbank Media Center | publisher = Burbank.com | url = http://www.burbank.com/story/Burbank-Media-Center/78189 | access-date = March 10, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140310072423/http://www.burbank.com/story/Burbank-Media-Center/78189 | archive-date = March 10, 2014 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}</ref> In the early 1990s, Burbank imposed growth restrictions in the Media District.<ref name="MediaDistrict" /> Since then, to house its growing workforce, Disney has focused on developing the site of the former [[Grand Central Airport (United States)|Grand Central Airport]] in the nearby city of Glendale. Only Disney's most senior executives and some film, television, and animation operations are still based at the main Disney studio lot in Burbank.

Rumors surfaced of NBC leaving Burbank after its parent company [[General Electric Corporation]] acquired [[Universal Studios, Inc.|Universal Studios]] and renamed the merged division [[NBCUniversal|NBC Universal]]. Since the deal, NBC has been relocating key operations to the Universal property located in [[Universal City, Los Angeles, California|Universal City]]. In 2007, NBC Universal management informed employees that the company planned to sell much of the Burbank complex. NBC Universal would relocate its television and cable operations to the Universal City complex.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.dailynews.com/search/ci_13463331 | title = Universal Studios to get $3 billion NBC makeover | work = [[Los Angeles Daily News]] | first = Dana | last = Bartholomew | date = October 7, 2009 | access-date = October 9, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110621233019/http://www.dailynews.com/search/ci_13463331 | archive-date = June 21, 2011 | url-status = live }}</ref> When [[Conan O'Brien]] took over hosting ''The Tonight Show'' from Carson's successor [[Jay Leno]] in 2009, he hosted the show from Universal City. However, O'Brien's hosting role lasted only 7 months, and Leno, who launched a failed primetime 10pm show in fall 2009, was asked to resume his ''Tonight Show'' role after O'Brien controversially left NBC. The show returned to the NBC Burbank lot and had been expected to remain there until at least 2018.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.dailynews.com/search/ci_14235021 | title = Conan and NBC separation finalized | work = [[Los Angeles Daily News]] | first = Bob | last = Strauss | date = January 21, 2010 | access-date = January 31, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110621233033/http://www.dailynews.com/search/ci_14235021 | archive-date = June 21, 2011 | url-status = live }}</ref> However, in April 2013 NBC confirmed plans for ''The Tonight Show'' to return to New York after 42 years in Burbank, with comic [[Jimmy Fallon]] replacing Leno as host. The change became effective in February 2014.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/comic_reliever_as_jay_exits_ObIwH8KNFLdxnAvl5J1QpL | title = Comic reliever as Jay exits | first = Michael | last = Shain | date = April 4, 2013 | work = [[nypost.com]] | access-date = October 17, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130510114632/http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/comic_reliever_as_jay_exits_ObIwH8KNFLdxnAvl5J1QpL | archive-date = May 10, 2013 | url-status = live }}</ref>

The relocation plans changed following [[Comcast]] Corp.'s $30 billion acquisition of NBC Universal in January 2011. NBC Universal announced in January 2012 it would relocate the NBC Network, [[Telemundo]]'s L.A. Bureau, as well as local stations [[KNBC]] and [[KVEA]] to the former Technicolor building located on the lower lot of Universal Studios in Universal City.<ref>{{cite news |author=Jacquelyn Ryan |url=http://www.labusinessjournal.com/news/2012/jan/04/nbcs-big-metrostudios-project-killed/ |title=NBC's Big MetroStudios Project Killed, Smaller Facility Planned |newspaper=Los Angeles Business Journal |date=January 4, 2012 |access-date=August 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524070914/http://www.labusinessjournal.com/news/2012/jan/04/nbcs-big-metrostudios-project-killed/ |archive-date=May 24, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> The former NBC Studios were renamed [[The Burbank Studios]].

In 2019, Conan O'Brien moved his [[TBS (U.S. TV channel)|TBS]] talk show, ''[[Conan (talk show)|Conan]]'', to Stage 15 on the Warner Bros. studios lot in Burbank, where it continued to tape until 2021 when the show ended.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100520023832/http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/05/16/conan-obrien-to-shoot-new-talk-show-on-warner-bros-tv-lot/ Conan O'Brien to shoot TBS talk show on Warner Bros. TV lot] EW.com. Retrieved May 16, 2010.</ref> Stage 15, constructed in the late 1920s, was used to shoot films such as ''[[Calamity Jane (film)|Calamity Jane]]'' (1953), ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' (1974), ''[[A Star Is Born (1976 film)|A Star Is Born]]'' (1976) and ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' (1984).

In the early 1990s, Burbank tried unsuccessfully to lure [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]], the Columbia and [[TriStar Pictures|TriStar]] studios owner based in [[Culver City, California|Culver City]], and [[20th Century Fox]], which had threatened to move from its West Los Angeles lot unless the city granted permission to upgrade its facility. Fox stayed after getting Los Angeles city approval on its $200 million expansion plan. In 1999, the city managed to gain [[Cartoon Network Studios]] which took up residence in an old commercial bakery building located on North 3rd St. when it separated its production operations from [[Warner Bros. Animation]] in [[Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles|Sherman Oaks]].