What building houses SNL's Studio 8H?

SNL’s Studio 8H is housed in 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

The building, often called 30 Rock, is part of Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan and serves as a major NBC broadcasting facility. Studio 8H was originally built as a radio studio and was once home to the NBC Symphony Orchestra. NBC later converted it for television production, and Lorne Michaels selected it as Saturday Night Live’s home before the show’s 1975 premiere.

Studio 8H is unusually large for a television studio, allowing space for elaborate sets, cameras, a live band, performers, and an audience. Its location inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza also connects SNL to NBC’s long history of New York-based broadcasting.

The building is sometimes confused with Radio City Music Hall, another famous venue in Rockefeller Center. Radio City is a separate performance hall. Madison Square Garden and One Times Square are also New York landmarks, but neither houses Studio 8H.