Interviewees discuss the television coverage of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
About
“I learned that NBC had changed the rules and decided to take the CBC film, which was the whole coronation beginning to end, and run the whole thing instead of taking the foreshortened version that we [CBS] were showing. They were on the air first, with the long three hours. We were on the air first with the cut down one hour, so we had the actual coronation scene on first.” - Sig Mickelson, News Executive
Highlights
Sig Mickelson on CBS News' coverage of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the technology associated with the broadcast
08:01
Walter Cronkite on covering the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London in 1953, and how it came about that CBS aired the coronation first of all the networks
05:38
Wade Bingham on shooting the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II for CBS News
01:37
Ted Koppel on Queen Elizabeth's Coronation being the first time he saw television
01:00
Reuven Frank on NBC covering the coronation of Queen Elizabeth
07:36
Sig Mickelson on the technological challenges of CBS News covering Queen Elizabeth's coronation and the innovations it helped bring about
14:16
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Wade Bingham
Wade Bingham on shooting the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II for CBS News
01:37
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite on covering the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London in 1953, and how it came about that CBS aired the coronation first of all the networks
05:38
Reuven Frank
Reuven Frank on NBC covering the coronation of Queen Elizabeth
07:36
Don Hewitt
Don Hewitt on covering the Queen Elizabeth Coronation
01:06
Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel on Queen Elizabeth's Coronation being the first time he saw television
01:00
Margaret Loesch
Margaret Loesch on seeing the coronation of Queen Elizabeth on television [Ed. note: Ms. Loesch would like to clarify that "he" refers to her father, Fred Loesch, and to correct "Andover, England" to "Burtonwood, England"]
01:20
Sig Mickelson
Sig Mickelson on CBS News' coverage of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the technology associated with the broadcast
08:01
Sig Mickelson on the technological challenges of CBS News covering Queen Elizabeth's coronation and the innovations it helped bring about
14:16