King Kong Encounter - Attraction Audio "Growls" & News Report

This is the actual audio used from the King Kong (Encounter) attraction on the World Famous Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, (Los Angeles) California used from 1985 - 2008.

Rolland Smith - Anchor (1990 - 2008)
Kelly King - Helicopter Reporter (1985 - 2008)

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"King Kong Encounter was an attraction formerly part of the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood. The scene, located amongst the New York Street backlot sets in the heart of the studio, was destroyed by a massive fire in 2008 and was replaced by King Kong: 360 3-D, which was opened in July 2010.

The show began as the tour tram entered the soundstage and stopped in front of an apartment building facade where guests watched a breaking news report about Kong's rampage on television monitors located inside of the building's windows. A news chopper circling overhead was covering the story when Kong suddenly swatted at the chopper, causing it to come crashing down from above and exploding only a few feet away from the tram. As the tram rounded a corner, it drove out onto the Brooklyn Bridge, putting guests at eye-level with the giant animatronic ape. The enraged Kong shook the bridge and ripped the suspension bridge cables apart in an attempt to grab the tram. But guests managed to narrowly escape the clutches of Kong as the tram exited the soundstage just in the nick of time.

WWOR-TV, channel 9, is the flagship station of the MyNetworkTV programming service, licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S., and serving the New York City television market. The move to New Jersey did little to relieve the regulatory pressure on RKO. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, RKO put channel 9 up for sale in 1985. Westinghouse Broadcasting, Chris-Craft Industries, and a joint venture of Cox Enterprises and MCA/Universal emerged as the leading suitors for WOR-TV; the station was sold to the Cox/MCA group in late 1986 for $387 million. Cox later backed out due to disagreements between the two firms on who would be responsible for running the station. MCA took control of WOR-TV on April 21, 1987. The sale came just in the nick of time for RKO: two months after MCA closed on the purchase, an administrative law judge recommended that RKO be forced out of broadcasting altogether due to a litany of misconduct.

Upon taking control, MCA added an extra W to its call letters calling itself as WWOR-TV on April 29, 1987. MCA knew it had to change the call letters, but still wanted to trade on the 65-year heritage of the WOR calls in the New York area" ~ Wikipedia

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