tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post6018612533102230263..comments2024-03-17T18:19:49.076-04:00Comments on It's About TV: What's on TV? Monday, July 11, 1960Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-32221027383004304262018-07-11T16:39:18.892-04:002018-07-11T16:39:18.892-04:00Note that NBC began coverage a half-hour before CB...Note that NBC began coverage a half-hour before CBS and ABC did (and likely a half-hour before that evening's session began).<br /><br />It was part of a policy NBC had called "CBS Plus Thirty". Under that policy, instituted by then-network president Bob Kintner, NBC would devote at least 30 more minutes than CBS (or ABC for that matter) for live coverage of a special news event.<br /><br />To make sure NBC had at least 30 minutes more convention coverage than either of it's rivals, the Peacock Network began live coverage at 7:30 P.M. Eastern time (6:30 Central), whereas ABC and CBS began at 8 P.M. Eastern (7 Central).<br /><br />One other note: Ned Calmer was listed as substituting for Douglas Edwards on the "CBS Evening News". I suspect Calmer was in New York and Edwards was at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles, not as anchorman (of course, Walter Cronkite was in the anchor booth), but perhaps as either a floor reporter (the networks generally used four of them at a political convention) or a news analyst who might come on a couple of times a night to provide analysis and comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com