Did stations have to cut out any interruptions for special reports, or could the network send them a "clean" version of the show?
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When shows aired on a one week delay....
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The network is not a station. Each station could do the break-outs it felt necessary. The network did not do a break unless it was a major national news item, but in the case of delayed shows, they continued taping while the stations got live feeds.
In Cleveland, the local CBS affiliate showed As the World Turns the morning after CBS showed an episode in the '60s. That includes 11/22/63, which had multiple interruptions with bulletins from Dallas, but I have no idea how that was handled on 11/26, the first day that regular programing returned.
If the pre-satellite days, if the station tape-delayed a show and the net did a special report, it was up to the station to handle it. That could involve anything from filling time with promos to sitting on a station ID slide for the duration of the cut-in.
If the special report ran very long, the station might fill with back-up programming and might even choose not to air the scheduled show at all. (For instance, if you’d only see the first five minutes of the show.)
Now, with satellites, stations often have a “clean feed.”
If the special report ran very long, the station might fill with back-up programming and might even choose not to air the scheduled show at all. (For instance, if you’d only see the first five minutes of the show.)
Now, with satellites, stations often have a “clean feed.”
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