stackyFACTSHigh-speed transmission used to mean buying a plane ticket. Before reliable satellite uplinks, networks literally recorded the East Coast feed onto massive reels of magnetic tape and rushed them onto commercial flights just to get them aired in Los Angeles on time.
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