[BC] "Breaking News" Interruptions

[Alan Kline]

Jeff Allen wrote:
> According to a story on History Channel by Walter Cronkite, they could not
> get the camera warmed up in time to get the story on the air, so they just
> did audio till the camera warmed up.  Thos old cameras took a while to get
> going.

As I recall reading, it took NBC longer to do even that much, because it 
was during the network's down time, and they had to get AT&T to put 
everything back together. From then on, telco left the network switched 
and patched together for the entire broadcast day...

Was this a recent History Channel program?

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