What Happened to the CBS thing this morning?

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Did anyone see this? Did they broadcast this coverage? Thanks.

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWAyne@aol.com), July 18, 1999

Answers

It was pre-empted by JFK, Jr. coverage. Possibly it will run next week.

-- Cheryl (Transplant@Oregon.com), July 18, 1999.

Despite the Cheryl imposter's comments above, Mara, I believe you'll find information on this subject here:

Threads on CBS special vs. Y2knewswire reports

-- Anita (spoonera@msn.com), July 18, 1999.


Anita, No, I did mean the regular CBS programming, not the special, and, apparently, according to another thread I didn't see at first, it WAS prempted for JFK, Jr. Thanks though.

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), July 18, 1999.

Okay...now *I*'m confused. What was supposed to be covered by CBS this morning? Can you point me to the thread? My time here is about up.

-- Anita (spoonera@msn.com), July 18, 1999.

Anita,

Mara was asking about the Y2K Community Preparedeness segment that was supposed to run on "CBS Morning News" this morning. I was at that meeting in Ashland, Oregon where part of it was being filmed.

Hopefully they'll be running it next weekend.

-- Cheryl (Transplant@Oregon.com), July 18, 1999.



Here's the link to the thread about today's CBS Morning News segment: http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0016KM

-- Cheryl (Transplant@Oregon.com), July 18, 1999.

Thank you, Cheryl.

-- Anita (spoonera@msn.com), July 18, 1999.

This is what today's show was supposed to be about:

CBS News Sunday Morning, Sunday, July 18 at 9 AM ET/PT

COVER: AFTER MIDNIGHT Correspondent: Bob Orr Producer: Brian Healy Editor: German Bonefont

What are you doing to prepare for the Y2K computer bug? Nothing? Well Government and business is spending billions of dollars to convert their old computers to recognize the new century. So are cities and towns.

Sunday Morning travels to southern Oregon--to Jackson County--to see what people and government are doing in the Town of Ashland. Many people here have begun storing food, others are starting Y2K gardens.

Meantime, John Koskinen has been named by President Clinton to travel the country to spread the message to get ready for Y2K. We travel with Koskinen to Miami Florida and talk with him about what all Americans should do to get ready for the new Millenium. Bob Orr is our correspondent.

for more information: Will Reishman, Medford, Oregon 541-858-9065 Liza Christian , Ashland,Oregon 541-482-1667 Mike Freeman ,Ashland City Administrator 541-488-6002 Keith Woodley, Ashland Fire and Rescue Chief 541-482-2770 John Koskinen President's Y2K Conversion Council 202-456-7010

-- Cheryl (Transplant@Oregon.com), July 18, 1999.


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