A broadcasting hearingSourced
People kept falling ill
at a TV-license hearing.
During a 1950s U.S. hearing over a TV license, an engineer collapsed on the stand, another bidder had food poisoning, and a rival owner's wife was hospitalized. The hearing was recessed and never resumed.
The contest ended
outside the hearing room.
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