. Bell telephone magazine . i Hall. The girlsat the message and information counters handled thousands of messages and rendered other courteous services for delegates and visitors 195- Communications and the Political Campaigns 129. Bell System communications facilities helped newsmen get their convention stories outfast. Newsrooms like this used a wide variety of services, including telephone, tele-typewriter, and telephoto lines Flexibility was the watchword inplanning for convention televisionfacilities. To satisfy the needs ofthe TV broadcasters, it was neces-sary to provide facilities to


. Bell telephone magazine . i Hall. The girlsat the message and information counters handled thousands of messages and rendered other courteous services for delegates and visitors 195- Communications and the Political Campaigns 129. Bell System communications facilities helped newsmen get their convention stories outfast. Newsrooms like this used a wide variety of services, including telephone, tele-typewriter, and telephoto lines Flexibility was the watchword inplanning for convention televisionfacilities. To satisfy the needs ofthe TV broadcasters, it was neces-sary to provide facilities to permitpickups from many locations—theconvention floor, Convention Build-ing studios, the Conrad Hilton Hotel(headquarters for both Republicanand Democratic National Commit-tees), downtown studios of the vari-ous TV networks, and telephonebuildings from which the TV signalswent out on the nationwide all, 24 video channels—includingboth microwave and cable—inter-laced these locations. In addition, there were other mis-cellaneous video pickups at suchwidely scattered locations as theNorthwestern Railroad Station, theMidway Airport, where President Trumans arrival was televised, andthe elephant house at Brookfie


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