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Begs the question, why would NBC bother to record by kinescope in 1969? Videotape had been the industry standard recording process for at least ten years at that time. And prior to videotape, the quality of color kinescope recordings of live shows was marginal at best. It was for this very reason that early NBC live prime time color telecasts in the east were kinescoped in b&w for delayed west coast prime time airing. The alternative was to broadcast live color (or b&w) shows to the west coast in the late afternoon to a vastly smaller viewing audience.
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