Based on the article, they did have a backup -- and it's what they've been using on a regular basis, for the time being.
(So they had to go to the backup to the backup, which is to put the CBSN streaming coverage on the main network.) > On May 20, 2020, at 10:11 PM, danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > obwnn: there's no way ABC would be this unprepared, eh? > > Newsgroups: panix.flame > Subject: dammit CBS news. 19 yrs after 9/11 and you don't have a backup? > > [deadline.com, Tuesday 19-May-2020] > > A 6:30 PM PT West Coast edition of the network's evening news will air as > planned, sources tell Deadline. Earlier Tuesday, an error in CBS News > Washington D.C. bureau control room literally pulled the plug on the East > Coast edition, as the network tweeted about 13 minutes after the > O'Donnell-hosted show was to have begun. > ====== > rest: > https://deadline.com/2020/05/cbs-evening-news-glitch-off-air-east-coast-norah-odonnell-west-coast-1202938959/ > > _____________________________________________________ > Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > [email protected] > [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/3738EA19-3DB6-4724-BEA1-546C7F92AF38%40ellwanger.tv.
