Queen Elizabeth Coronation

“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