RCA color graphics scanner?

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Jeff, it looks like if you lived on the west coast, you had a bit more than a three hour delay in some cases:

http://www.metnews.com/reminiscing.htm

go to the "reminiscing" page, then "early television" the first article is called "snowy kinescopes-two weeks late"

He has some neat articles on his early tv experiences.