Walter Cronkite passes

[Chuck Igo]

Kevin wrote:

> A couple of post-scripts to 1968 for WMUR
>
> 1.  In June the station was praised by the Boston Globe for being the
> only area station to stay on the air all night when RFK was shot. The
> truth was the xmtr engineer feel asleep and missed the anthem. Now we
> would punch up black on the switcher and leave but at the mountain it
> was setup that if the xmtr saw black for 60 seconds it would switch to
> the network loop so WMUR became translator for WABC which did go back
> to Los Angeles.

Did the engineer get a raise for being incredibly foresighted?

(snip)

> 3.  On election night it was dead even between Nixon and Humphrey and
> Sam Phillips was pacing because we were all on overtime. At 1 AM he
> ordered the news director to declare Nixon the winner and we signed
> off. We were 8 hours ahead of the networks. :)

Now we have all worked for fiscally conservative employers and in this case 
Phillips was a genius and shrewd money guy.  Did the Chicago pressroom that 
gaffed in the Dewey days do the same thing, i wonder?

--Chuck Igo