Re: "News before the hour" (Was Re: WITS)

[LJNF40D@prodigy.com (BUMP MARTIN)]

>         Another icon shattered, perhaps. You're telling me that the
NBC
> news on the hour, back when it was a real network, wasn't even live?
Are
> you sure they didn't do multiple versions? I'm a little skeptical that
NBC
> was feeding a recorded newscast on the hour back in the '60s or '70s.


If you sat behind a board in the late 70's you could listen to the
network in cue.  

Same newscast, same sounder...sometimes even the same stumbles.  

I'm sure they had the capability to go live in the case of an ongoing
development. 

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