NBC Studios at 3000 W Alameda Ave is one of the most active television production facilities in the country, taping multiple shows throughout the week. The studio complex is closed to general visitors, but free tickets for tapings of shows including The Tonight Show and other NBC productions are available through the NBC website and third-party ticket services — this is worth checking before your visit, as tickets go quickly.
On taping days, audience members queue outside the studio from early afternoon. The experience of watching a live taping — the warm-up comedian, the re-takes, the moment when the band strikes up — is something that is hard to replicate anywhere but Los Angeles. Even if you don't score taping tickets, walking Alameda Avenue gives you a sense of the industrial scale of television production in Burbank.