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From: jokim@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (John H. Kim)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: "Commonplace"
Message-ID: <1215@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 9 May 89 15:23:24 GMT
References: <1429@sialis.mn.org> <24071@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4391@omepd.UUCP>
Reply-To: jokim@jarthur.UUCP (John H. Kim)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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In article <4391@omepd.UUCP> snidely@inteloa.UUCP (David P. Schneider) writes:
>In article <24071@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> labc-4da@web-2f.berkeley.edu (Bob Heiney) writes:
>
>>For yesterday's launch of Atlantis, ABC only covered the last 2 and a
>>half minutes of the countdown.  Yes, I know Ollie North's verdict came
>>down at about the same time, but they weren't saying anything relevant
>>about it.
>
>NBC did better, coming in at about 5 minutes (I think).   In  fact,  that's

CBS also came in at 5 minutes.  Considering NASA had held the clock
at 5 minutes, I don't see why any of the networks would have bothered
to cover before 5min.  CBS also broke away at about 3min to cover Ollie
but got back in time for the launch.  CBS was also nice enough to show
lots of pretty pictures of the shuttle on the pad when NASA was running
the clock from 9min to 5min.
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