. Bell telephone magazine . terminatingpoints were 107 television broadcast-ing stations in 65 cities served by anation-wide network of Bell Systemtelevision facilities. In between wasa truly prodigious amount of tele-phone equipment to switch, monitor,control and transmit the televisionsignals. To bring network television within range of 99 percent of the nationsTV sets, Long Lines rushed to com-pletion an additional 5,000 miles ofmicrowave and coaxial cable chan-nels, bringing the total up to about30,000 miles. The new cities whichjoined the conventions TV audiencewere Miami, New Orleans, Da
. Bell telephone magazine . terminatingpoints were 107 television broadcast-ing stations in 65 cities served by anation-wide network of Bell Systemtelevision facilities. In between wasa truly prodigious amount of tele-phone equipment to switch, monitor,control and transmit the televisionsignals. To bring network television within range of 99 percent of the nationsTV sets, Long Lines rushed to com-pletion an additional 5,000 miles ofmicrowave and coaxial cable chan-nels, bringing the total up to about30,000 miles. The new cities whichjoined the conventions TV audiencewere Miami, New Orleans, Dallas,Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio,Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Phoenix, Seat-tle, and Lansing, Mich. In Chicago, along with the tele-vision facilities already in place, thelargest concentration of television fa-cilities ever amassed at one pointwere installed to handle the conven-tions. The flexibility of Bell Systemorganization enabled Illinois Bell toassemble in Chicago what neededequipment it did not already The Bell Telepho)ie Coder was o)ie of the busiest spots in Conventio}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
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