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Old 01-01-2014, 09:05 PM
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I think there has always been cooperation at the engineering level - so it wouldn't surprise me if some of the NBC color cameramen were giving hints to CBS at the time.

When I visited the local CBS transmitter on the Hancock building (a few decades back - wow, was that channel 2 plumbing something to see), they called next door to channel 32 to get permission to roll their remote microwave dish over to the channel 32 side, a common occurrence. They regularly cooperated like this. The only hassle was that CBS had to call in a technician just to roll the dish over and aim it, because it was considered a "remote" operation once he stepped out of CBS facilities.
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