> On Sep 6, 2020, at 10:04 AM, 'Eddie Anderson' via TVorNotTV
> wrote:
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> Doug Eastick wrote:
>> Diana death -- I don't remember the specifics of when the
>> news broke, but I recall Kevin Newman (formerly of Canadian
>> nets) on ABC covering it that evening.
>
> 1) IIRC, that night I saw
I was sitting at Charlotte Motor Speedway on the same day in 2001. The race was
about to start and it was an NBC race.
The jumbo screen at the track switched to a live feed of NBC News Special
Report.
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I remember that Directtv used the backhaul feeds on the AFC games that day
until President Bush was done speaking- believe they waited till Dan Rather
did the wrap up before switching back to the regular network feeds. Up
till Obama did his address about Newtown, it was the last time a NFL
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:17 PM stannc wrote:
> G-E-C is also the pleasant sound that you hear when you try to shoplift at
> Lowe’s Home Improvement.
>
I'll take your word for that.
Some years ago I listened to all the extant 300+ episodes of Dragnet from
NBC Radio. The recording always ended
G-E-C is also the pleasant sound that you hear when you try to shoplift at
Lowe’s Home Improvement.
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Now *that* story *is* covered on the nbcchimes site...
Kevin M, to Jim Ellwanger and stannc, today (7/28):
>
> My understanding is that in the early days of the chimes, they had a few
>> different chime tunes used for different purposes, and the four-chime
>> version essentially meant, "hey,
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:51 AM Jim Ellwanger
wrote:
> My understanding is that in the early days of the chimes, they had a few
> different chime tunes used for different purposes, and the four-chime
> version essentially meant, "hey, network or station employees, there's some
> big news
My understanding is that in the early days of the chimes, they had a few
different chime tunes used for different purposes, and the four-chime version
essentially meant, "hey, network or station employees, there's some big news
happening, so come in to the office or at least call in."
The
They used that format for this S.R. on the double-murder conviction of Scott
Peterson in 2004... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CugARmyXt8 (link)
Jim Ellwanger, tonight (7/27):
> I believe Daniel is specifically referring to the use of the chimes
> as part of the “NBC News Special Report”
I believe Daniel is specifically referring to the use of the chimes as part of
the “NBC News Special Report” intro — for example, at the 5-second mark here,
after the countdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEX6Wr9Iz00
> On Jul 27, 2020, at 5:02 PM, 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
> wrote:
>
> On Jul 27, 2020, at 9:14 AM, Kevin M. wrote:
>
>
> In one of his autobiographies, Sherwood Schwartz wrote about filming the
> pilot episode of Gilligan’s Island the day JFK was shot. Not the best day for
> slapstick comedy.
The shot of the Minnow leaving the harbor in the first-season
Unlike the actors, the organist would have been wearing a headset to hear the
communication from the control room (where, for a live production, there would
have been an "air" monitor to show what was actually being broadcast).
> On Jul 27, 2020, at 8:33 AM, daniel anderson
> wrote:
>
>
Because he was killed. Likely because she had voted for him in 60.
I was heartbroken myself when 9/11 took place, because it disrupted our
normal way of living.
On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 11:15:28 AM UTC-4, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 8:08 AM daniel anderson >
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 8:08 AM daniel anderson <
danielanderson2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My grandmother was watching some soap opera when JFK was shot. When
> Cronkite announced JFK's death, she was heartbroken.
>
Heartbroken because he was shot, or heartbroken because they interrupted
her
My grandmother was watching some soap opera when JFK was shot. When
Cronkite announced JFK's death, she was heartbroken.
On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 11:39:46 AM UTC-4, PGage wrote:
>
> Perhaps my earliest memory like this was watching Bobby Kennedy get
> murdered. I was precociously interested
Perhaps my earliest memory like this was watching Bobby Kennedy get
murdered. I was precociously interested in politics, and my mother took me
to hear all of the Democratic nominees for president that year. She was a
Eugene McCarthy girl, and the first we saw but then we went to see Bobby
speak, a
It was probably Newsworld International, which was owned by the CBC. It
eventually became AJA, but not before Al Gore ran it as Current TV.
Mark Jeffries
Saints Spotlight Editor
spotligh...@gmail.com
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 9:57 PM Chris Neuman wrote:
> My wife and I moved from Toronto to
My wife and I moved from Toronto to Chicago about 10 days before September
11. We were staying with a friend in Lincoln Park while we waited for our
place to be ready in Evanston and we’re occupying he second bedroom with a
view of the El tracks just south of Belmont. What woke us up first was the
I was in middle school English when Challenger happened; they ended up sending
us home early that day.
Like Kevin, I slept through the first couple of hours of 9/11. When I woke up
around 11, I had a breathless message from a friend telling me to turn on the
TV because something terrible had
I was watching Bear in the Big Blue House on Disney Channel with my just
starting to walk daughter when my friend called me up and told me to put
the news on the morning of 9/11.
Most things, though, have happened during the day when at work or in
school. I did watch the tsunami that hit Japan,
I was watching the World Series in 1989 when the Earthquake happened. I can
still remember hearing Al Michaels say "I'll tell you what, we're having an
earth-" before the feed cut out. I remember ABC airing something else for a
few minutes, before Ted Koppel came on form Washington(where he was
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