Friday, August 19, 2005
AM Says Goodbye to Steetside Set and Hello to Time Warner Center Monday
American Morning said goodbye to its studio in the Time Life building in Manhattan this morning. The crew will begin broadcasting the program from a temporary set in the Time Warner Center on Monday while a new newsroom set is constructed in the coming months. Here's a transcript of the exchange this morning concerning the move:
O'BRIEN: We're vacating this set. This couch will be eBay in about 20 minutes.
WALLACE: Remember, Jack Cafferty used to get e-mails from people, wondering where do you get the couch?
O'BRIEN: Where do you get a couch like this?
WALLACE: Yes. Now you'll find out.
O'BRIEN: Let us explain to you. We are .7 miles away, three- quarters of a mile away, from the control room. Take a look at the control room. Now there's some people there, I think. Yes, I hear their voices.
COSTELLO: There they are.
WALLACE: There they are.
O'BRIEN: Oh my goodness, they have faces. Which one is my boss? Kim, where are you?
WALLACE: There, she just waved.
O'BRIEN: That's Kim. There's -- Alex is around. There's Ted, and everybody. And we're going to be actually very close to them. And I'm not sure if they're happy about that, but we're happy that we're moving to Time Warner Center to some new digs. We'll be in temporary digs for a while, and then we're going to have a spectacular new set toward the fall. And the window set is now moving on.
COSTELLO: It is moving on.
WALLACE: Sad to leave, but...
COSTELLO: It is.
WALLACE: ... nice to move on...
O'BRIEN: We'll be back on Monday.
WALLACE: ... to bigger and better places.
VELSHI: Everybody, carry a box on your way out.
COSTELLO: We're like the Jeffersons, we're moving on out.
VELSHI: There's been no news on this show for the last hour and a half because everybody's just piling things up. It's like, we've been hearing news about things happening -- it's like, we'll get to it later.
O'BRIEN: We're vacating this set. This couch will be eBay in about 20 minutes.
WALLACE: Remember, Jack Cafferty used to get e-mails from people, wondering where do you get the couch?
O'BRIEN: Where do you get a couch like this?
WALLACE: Yes. Now you'll find out.
O'BRIEN: Let us explain to you. We are .7 miles away, three- quarters of a mile away, from the control room. Take a look at the control room. Now there's some people there, I think. Yes, I hear their voices.
COSTELLO: There they are.
WALLACE: There they are.
O'BRIEN: Oh my goodness, they have faces. Which one is my boss? Kim, where are you?
WALLACE: There, she just waved.
O'BRIEN: That's Kim. There's -- Alex is around. There's Ted, and everybody. And we're going to be actually very close to them. And I'm not sure if they're happy about that, but we're happy that we're moving to Time Warner Center to some new digs. We'll be in temporary digs for a while, and then we're going to have a spectacular new set toward the fall. And the window set is now moving on.
COSTELLO: It is moving on.
WALLACE: Sad to leave, but...
COSTELLO: It is.
WALLACE: ... nice to move on...
O'BRIEN: We'll be back on Monday.
WALLACE: ... to bigger and better places.
VELSHI: Everybody, carry a box on your way out.
COSTELLO: We're like the Jeffersons, we're moving on out.
VELSHI: There's been no news on this show for the last hour and a half because everybody's just piling things up. It's like, we've been hearing news about things happening -- it's like, we'll get to it later.
# posted by ATN @ 5:17 PM 
