[78-L] Panic..or myth? (Hey, it was 73 years ago tonight, too) [FWD]

[Michael Biel]

From: David Breneman <david_breneman at yahoo.com>
> KIRO, the CBS affiliate in Seattle, time-shifted all of the CBS
> prime time broadcasts from some time in the late-30s on.  After
> the shows aired, the lacquers were taken to their backup transmitter
> location on Vashon Island for storage.  Several years ago they
> donated all of them to (I believe) the Smithsonian.

KIRO only time shifted the major international news programs, not the
entertainment programs.  There is a full catalog of them published as
"History In Sound" by Milo Ryan.  Networks only allowed time shifting by
special permission, such as a baseball game on at the same time.  KIRO
was a special case. The book does include some entertainment series such
as Suspense in 1943 I believe, but it is not clear if these were
broadcast time delayed or if someone at the station just wanted to
record them.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com



 From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>

> If I'm not mistaken, it wasn't even 
> done a second time for the west coast, which means that whatever stations in 
> the west carried it (and I believe LA didn't) ran it at 5pm. Some local 
> stations are thought to have done a line check and run it later.