Stanislav said:
...Turn-On...but I believe a number of western ABC affiliates preempted it
on their own initiative, either having heard about the negative uproar through
the grapevine, or having monitored the earlier feed.
Grapevine perhaps, but not likely monitoring the east coast feed,
as left coast feed affiliates could not have seen it. This was well
before sat feeds--stations were fed via Telco line, and those up
and down the coast would get only what was coming out of ABC
in El Lay on Prospect.
ABC might have closed-circuited the show ahead of time for affil
review, something typically done after the DEF feed in the late
afternoon (which Prospect would have delayed and sent out in
between the last daytime show and the evening news first feed).
Based on the turmoil generated by the broadcast, if the show had
been previewed for the affils, there probably would have been a
much larger number of defections.
Speaking of the
Turn On legend, didn't WEWS-TV Cleveland dump
the show in mid-broadcast?
bpatrick said:
Nevertheless, when Ed found out about it he had Draper's segment
cut from the kinescope for the West Coast, and he inserted an apology
for it, explaining about Draper's politics and that it was a sensitive issue.
We've previously been able to trace TV City turning Sullivan around three
hours later for the coast with a "hot kinnie" as early as 1954, but in 1950
I'm not sure what sort of interconnection there was out west, and there
was no TV City yet, so the edited kinnie may well have aired at least a
week later--same night seems real doubtful.
