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6 Convention
NBC CLIMAXES COVERAGE OF G.O.P. CONVENTION;
PREPARES FOR DEMOCRATIC CONCLAVE
CHICAGO, July 14 - NBC climaxed its 15-day coverage of the Republican National Convention Friday by mustering its full staff of 300 to report General Eisenhower’s acceptance of the G.O.P. Presiden¬ tial nomination.
. . Fifteen commentators, three mobile units and 15 TV cameras brought the complete picture of the general’s triumphant parade from downtown Chicago to the International Amphitheatre, where millions of televiewers and radio listeners saw and heard him address the cheering crowd .
When NBC television finally signed off at 10:00 p.m., EDT, the network had presented 75 hours of televised convention coverage,
65 hours sponsored by Philco Corporation, to a coast-to-coast audience. NBC radio reported the five-day G.O.P. meeting to millions of listeners for a total of 50 hours. Radio doubled its "live" reports with 50 miles of tape-recordings while NBC-TV’s live coverage was expanded by 10,000 feet of 16 millimeter film. NBC had been reporting Republican activities at Chicago since July 1, a week before the convention opened.
William R. McAndrew, director of NBC's combined TV and radio convention staff, said: "Our experience in Chicago over the past two weeks has proved that 300 skilled persons can weld their separate tal¬ ents together to provide the nation the most complete coverage of a
national political convention in history .
"For 75 hours - from the moment TV cameras and radio micro¬ phones were denied admittance to the dispute over seating of certain
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