@@RageTVHTXThen again, it's mainly because of advances in technology. For example, if you see what NHK did when the Gulf War broke out, they would cut to silence and a special-report screen and then a tone would play to sync every station (TV and radio) with the special coverage. Nowadays, they just play the tone at a random time during the special coverage. NHK is different than ABC, though, in that they only have to broadcast to one time zone and usually have a general broadcast. ABC, like just about every American broadcast network, has time delays, so they need every station individually to opt in, as it's called, to the national network's special coverage. That's why the screen is quiet for an extended time (that differs between stations) and why the screen is meant to be eye-catching, something you'd easily see if you were sitting in a station control room. Nowadays, they can just send an opt-in request digitally and the stations will auotmatically switch to the coverage.
People under a certain age already have a hard time believing that at least one or two American jetliners went down every year. It's a great thing. It's been 13 years and 4 months since the last US accident with more than one fatality as I write this.
@@altfactor ABC had its own bureau at the time. In 1981, Channel 2 was still in its original White Columns building, which barely had enough room for both WSB TV and Radio.
Or it could have been because ABC's bureau there was not used all that often, while their Washington bureau was used extensively (not only for WNT, but for Nightline w/Ted Koppel, and the Weekend Report as well), so they were more ready to update the Washington bureau w/new wallpaper of the Capitol than to update the Atlanta bureau with a new skyline.
I was 9 years old then. My uncle worked for the Atlanta police dept. at that time.This was right before Wayne Williams name was released. He always said I was dumping garbage. He thought they were all garbage. The state was gripped at that time.
