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John Palmer dead at 78

In the mid-and-late 1980's, his "Today" news segment duties required him, if my memory serves me correct, to be on-duty until 12 Noon EDT/EST to update top/bottom of the hour news segments for the Western parts of the country if needed.

I believe that he was live on NBC stations in the Pacific Time Zone (but not KNBC-4 Burbank where they apparently did their own locally-produced coverage) shortly after 8:30 A.M. PST on January 28th, 1986 to anchor a live broadcast of the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, which tragically exploded a little more than a minute after launch.

Once the shuttle exploded, the rest of the network joined in.
 
What the western USA saw was Kent Schocknek anchoring KNBC's Live and local coverage of the launch. Within 2 1/2 minutes after the explosion (around 8:40 AM PT) the main network broke in rather abruptly and Palmer took it from there, presumably leaving KNBC on its own.
 
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