Word: relays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show what could be done. NBC, CBS and Du Mont each took a turn transmitting scenes ordered by FCC: NBC ran off a short variety show, then bounced | some color pictures to Washington, D.C. and back, alternating between coaxial cable and microwave relay: CBS concentrated on a brief outdoor scene; Du Mont showed some ultra high frequency color slides: NBC finished up with its own outdoor pickup. Hovering tensely over FCC during the programs was a Hues Who of experts, executives, engineers and designers. Among them: RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff. who kept his eyes fixed...
...Wissant, France. Channel Swimmer Abdel Litif Abou Heif, 23, after swimming four miles to help his Egyptian teammates set a new cross-channel-relay record (10:51), dove right back into the swim and set a new England-France record of his own: 13:45. The U.S.'s Florence Chadwick, who hoped to make it both ways nonstop, got seasick and was pulled out of the water after ten hours...
...easygoing tortoise (ABC). In fact, stay-at-home ABC did not even realize it was in a race. While CBS and NBC were spending hundreds of thousands on planes, men and technical gadgets, ABC spent only a few thousand on a microwave relay to link up the A.T. & T. at Buffalo to the Montreal outlet of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. ABC did not even plan to go on the air with its show until the evening of coronation...
...desperate, asked CBC for its afternoon program and offered to share it with ABC in return for permission to cut in on ABC's relay from Montreal to Buffalo. ABC agreed. Next day. ABC had reason to feel aggrieved when NBC boasted in full-page newspaper ads: "NBC'S CORONATION COVERAGE TOPPED ALL NETWORKS." Muttered one ABC official: "They should have spelled it 'tapped.' " CBS, though the winner of the race from Goose Bay, was the last network to get on the air. Making up for defeat by cutting and splicing its own films in London...
Rittenburg himself had a busy day. Besides his points in the hurdles he took a fifth in the broad jump, just missed qualifying in the high jump, and ran on the mile relay team...