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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 219971" data-attributes="member: 27">The promise of using New York City exteriors was one of the selling points of The City (I mean, look at the name), and I have to give credit to ABC for splashing out a lot of money to get that done.  Sunset Beach over at NBC also made that a part of the publicity when it was launched; they set aside a day or two every two weeks to send their actors out to do location work at beaches, hotels, seaside restaurants and the like.  But like Sunset, the location stuff was quickly curtailed as one of the first efforts at cutting expenses.  This was when location work was much more expensive and required two or three times as many crew members to travel along.  By the time Guiding Light attempted their exterior-heavy production model ten years later, there were tech advances that made it much, much cheaper and less dependent on dozens of crew members and facilities.I recall that ABC splashed out so much money on the "Sydney's penthouse" set that after the show no longer needed it (maybe after the show was cancelled?), it became the set for their then-new morning chat show, The View for several years.</blockquote>