# 1986 Shuttle Challenger Disaster News Survey

This item includes 24 news broadcasts over 11 days that survey the TV broadcast news coverage of the Jan. 28, 1986 Shuttle Challenger Disaster. Most of the major broadcasters are included here starting with a CNN Headline News broadcast on January 23rd that first mentions the delays that continued to plague this flight for many days. These are files digitized from original Betamax VCR recordings made live by Dave Dalton at the time of broadcast. Details of the files: Playback VCR - Sony SL-HF400 Betamax Digitizer - Hauppauge PVR2 Editing SW - TMPG Video Mastering Works (crop artifacts, square pixels, progressive scan) Container - MP4 Codec - AVC (H.264 or MPEG-4 part 10) Dimensions - 640x480 Pixels - 1:1 (square) Bitrate - 2500kbps constant Framerate - 29.97 Scan - Progressive Audio - 128 kbps AAC These parameters allow for the easiest post editing and viewing File Listing: TV News (86-01-23_01.40) - CNN Headline News (10.44).mp4 TV News (86-01-23_17.31) - CBS Evening News (22.26).mp4 TV News (86-01-24_01.00) - CNN Headline News (18.58).mp4 TV News (86-01-24_17.30) - ABC World News (23.17).mp4 TV News (86-01-25_00.30) - CNN Headline News (18.54).mp4 TV News (86-01-25_17.30) - NBC Nightly News (22.27).mp4 TV News (86-01-26_01.10) - CNN Headline News (10.55).mp4 TV News (86-01-26_16.40) - CBS Evening News (16.03).mp4 TV News (86-01-26_23.30) - CNN Headline News (23.04).mp4 TV News (86-01-27_17.30) - NBC Evening News (22.44).mp4 TV News (86-01-28_01.00) - CNN Headline News…

- Kind: Commercial
- Year: 1986
- Genres: News, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/challengernewssurvey)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/challengernewssurvey?play=1)