Seven decades ago, CBS and NBC fought their first all-out war for supremacy to screen the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II to a post-war America still marveling at moving pictures synchronized to sound.
Seven decades ago, the coronation of a queen in the U.K. served as a battleground for broadcasters in the U.S.
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.Matt Green / Getty Images
CBS' plane landed at 4:12 p.m. Eastern time on June 2, 1953, to celebration, with NBC's plane some 45 minutes behind.
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