How Queen Elizabeth II's coronation created a television broadcasting battleground
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London — Seven decades ago, the coronation of a queen in the U.K. served as a battleground for broadcasters in the U.S.
With television in its infancy, CBS and NBC fought their first all-out war for supremacy in 1953 to screen the pageantry to a post-war America still marveling at moving pictures synchronized to sound.
At the time, CBS News' Ron Cochrane reported from Boston's Logan International Airport. With transmission satellites a decade away, and Atlantic underwater cable too expensive, U.S. networks flew reels in from the U.K. Both CBS and NBC built new broadcast facilities and waited at Logan, because it was one hour closer to London than New York.
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