[BC] "Breaking News" Interruptions

[Jeff Allen]

It was during the History Channel Kennedy specials a while back.


J Allen


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From: "Alan Kline" <akline at netins.net>
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Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] "Breaking News" Interruptions


> 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?
>
> ak
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