Today Show

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Anybody unearthed a  tape of this event?

Andre Jackson and/or Lisa Burrows
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> The Today show broadcast from Roanoke on May 15-16, 1958. There was  

> an interview segment with Stuart Saunders standing next to the  

> Pocahontas, and a filmed (not live) segment riding the cab of the J  

> between Roanoke and Bedford. There was a two page article in the June  

> 1958 N&W Magazine. pages 344-345.

> 

> Having worked in the television business for 11 years, The first  

> satellite to orbit the earth was Sputnik in October 1957, just about  

> 7 months prior to this broadcast. As I recall, it was capable of  

> broadcasting a "beep" tone every few seconds during its orbit.

> 

> Satellite television broadcasting did not originate until sometime in  

> 1962, when Telstar was launched to become the first television  

> broadcast satellite. Live broadcasting in those days was a  

> considerable technical feat with a small scale broadcast truck at the  

> site. Satellite or microwave broadcasting that is common today was  

> unheard of in 1958.

> 

> Ken Miller

> 

> On Mar 31, 2007, at 1:18 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> 

>>

>> I do recall the Today show broadcasting from Roanoke in 1957, the  

>> 75th anniversary of the City. And I recall that the "studio" was an  

>> open air location atop Mill Mountain. Unfortunately I don't recall  

>> the train feature.

>>

>>      Ray Smoot

>>

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>> Subject: Today Show

>>

>> Back durung the early 50's the Today Show with Dave Garroway  

>> originated

>> one day in Roanoke, Va.   During the course of the program an N&W J

>> with a passenger train was approaching Roanoke.  This was before we

>> had the satellite technology that exists today. They had a "live"  

>> segment of

>> broadcast with Dave Garraway in the cab of the locomotive talking with

>> the engine crew, or trying to over all that noise.  I have wondered  

>> to this

>> day how  NBC  was able to pull that off. Do any of you recall this  

>> program

>> from the past, or do you have any idea  of how they were able to  

>> broadcast

>> "live" from a moving locomotive cab?   The only angle I can think  

>> of was

>> to have a small plane above the train with a satellite dish feeding  

>> the signal

>> to a dish mounted on a building in Roanoke. What's your version?

>> Bill Sellers.

>>

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