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Viewers Get First Scenes of Coronation from NBC Television Eight Months of Planning for Royal Establish New Records of J__/ONG range planning — the kind of planning that anticipates all conceivable setbacks and disappointments achieved new records for NBC on June 2 when the network provided American TV viewers with the most complete coverage of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. As a result of this painstaking thoroughness in preparation: 5 NBC-TV flashed the first still pictures of the Coronation ceremonies only nine minutes after they were taken in London. 51 The network presented, at 4:14 p.m., the first actual motion pictures of the Coronation seen in this country. 5 NBC-TV telecast more hours of Coronation Day activities than any other network. 51 NBC Coronation coverage reached more people, on both radio and TV, than did the coverage of any other network according to a survery conducted by Audience Research Bureau. This coverage, on both media, was sponsored by General Motors. Right: These American-type microwave receivers, sup- ported on a specially built tov/er near Blackbushe, were used to pick up TV signals from the BBC station in London. The signals were then fed to kinescope recorders. Film recording and editing equipment installed at the Blackbushe Airport outside London for the rapid process- ing of Coronation films before their shipment to the United States by fast plane. Pageant Made it Possible fot Netvv^otk to Leadership in Radio and TV The network had planned to score a beat of several hours over other television networks by flying Corona- tion films back to this country in an English Electric Canberra jet bomber belonging to the Venezuelan Gov- ernment. The plane had been delivered by its manufac- turer to Blackbushe Airport, near London, where NBC had set up an elaborate installation to kinescope the British Broadcasting Corporation telecast. NBC assumed the expense of ferrying the jet across the Atlantic in return for the transport of the films. Piloted by Capt. J. W. Hackett, who on May 12 had set an unofficial trans-Atlantic record in a similar aircraft, the jet took off at 6:24 a.m., EDT., but two hours out over the Atlantic was forced to turn back because of a defective fuel connection. BBC, the only television organization permitted to film the ancient rites in Westminster Abbey also offered kinescopes of its coverage to Canadian and American networks, the films to be flown over in three Royal Air Force Canberra jet bombers. NBC hired a souped-up P-51 racing plane, piloted mm »