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    <font face="Tahoma">You can add my name to the list of those who'd
      prefer to watch an earlier feed.  I'm sure most local stations
      would much prefer to sell that hour, though; rather than lose it.<br>
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      In the mid-60s, as a member of the DC crew for CBS Evening News at
      WTOP-TV, just as Cronkite took the program to a half hour...the
      entire crew in New York and DC waited until nearly 7:00 (I think)
      to learn if any key stories had changed enough to justify a second
      feed.  We'd also do it again if someone had made a serious
      mistake.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/8/13 5:21 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:<br>
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      <div>Hi, Park,</div>
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      <div>While writing the post, I had some questions regarding what
        happened to the one-hour delay for Central time zone.</div>
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      <div>What I related is what I found in the 1959 document
         "Automatic Control of Video Tape Equipment at NBC Burbank," by
        NBC's Robert Byloff. </div>
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      <div>Perhaps there are QuadList members who can shed light on the
        subject?</div>
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      <div>There may have been some economic or practical logistics
        involved. </div>
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      <div>Perhaps program protection was necessary? Did the net find
        that it needed to roll two machines in record and then in play
        so there was a main and backup rolling simultaneously? The dozen
        machines available in the document didn't allow for that.</div>
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      <div>Or it may have been simply the idea of disrupting an existing
        8/7 Central time viewing habit.</div>
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      <div>If the other two networks didn't go for it, NBC would have
        had a very interesting time trying to adjust program schedules
        to maximize viewers in the Central Time zone, and when
        interpreting ratings  against the other networks and stations
        when selling time.</div>
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      <div><b>Re: Local stations and schedules out of pattern:</b></div>
      <div><br>
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        <div>KOVR, the Stockton/Sacramento CBS owned station runs prime
          time an hour early, and has done so since before CBS bought
          the station from Sinclair.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>At one time, KOVR (then under other owners) and NBC
          affiliate KCRA-TV, Sacramento ran the network prime time an
          hour early. </div>
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        </div>
        <div>In San Francisco, then Westinghouse-owned CBS affiliate
          KPIX ran prime an hour early. </div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>Both KCRA-TV and KPIX reverted to standard 8 p.m. weekday
          pattern.  KOVR enjoys better late news ratings, competing
          against the Tribune owned Fox and Hearst-owned MyTV 10pm news
          offerings.  My58 is the sister to long-time market news leader
          KCRA, both now owned by Hearst.</div>
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      Now how many of us would like to watch the Eastern TZ feeds
      beginning with dinner?  You could be in bed even earlier!
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      <div>Ted<br>
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          <div>On Jan 8, 2013, at 12:54 PM, C. Park Seward wrote:</div>
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            <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space;
              -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Growing up in the
              Central Time Zone, we saw the network programs at the same
              moment as Eastern. The 8 PM net start in the Eastern Time
              Zone was 7 PM in Central. There was no tape delay.
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              </div>
              <div>Continues to this day. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
                starts at 10:34 PM, for example.</div>
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                    -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position:
                    0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; ">The
                    Tonight Show With Jay Leno</h2>
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                      117, 187) !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
                      display: inline !important; font-weight: bold
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                      list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px;
                      font-size: 9px !important; line-height: 12px; ">NEW</span></div>
                  <div class="schedule-grid-description" style="color:
                    rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial,
                    sans-serif; list-style: none outside none; margin:
                    0px; padding: 0px; ">Actress Emma Stone; actor Josh
                    Gad; The Whigs perform.</div>
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                  style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica,
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                      padding: 0px; float: left; overflow: hidden;
                      text-align: left; vertical-align: bottom; clear:
                      right; width: 73px; ">Tue 1/8</li>
                    <li class="schedule-grid-time" style="color: rgb(51,
                      51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial,
                      sans-serif; list-style: none; margin: 0px;
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                      146px; ">10:34pm-11:36pm</li>
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                <div>I can't speak for Mountain or Pacific.<br>
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                                            Best,</div>
                                          <div>Park</div>
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                                        <div>C. Park Seward</div>
                                        <div>Cell: 818-535-2747</div>
                                        <div>Home: 541-476-6657</div>
                                        <div>2" Quad and 1" "C"
                                          transfers</div>
                                        <div>The Transfer Lab at Video
                                          Park</div>
                                        <div>Visit us: <a
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                                            href="http://www.videopark.com/">http://www.videopark.com</a></div>
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                    <div>On Jan 6, 2013, at 8:09 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:</div>
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                        class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:
                        separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style:
                        normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
                        normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height:
                        normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
                        text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
                        white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing:
                        0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px;
                        -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;
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                        -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
                        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size:
                        medium; ">An 8 p.m. ET program would be replayed
                        for Central and Mountain zones one hour after it
                        fed from New York, and then replayed at 8 p.m.
                        Burbank time for the West Coast.  </span></blockquote>
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