Pandemonium broke loose and Ampex was flooded with orders. Eight months later, CBS aired its first videotape delayed news broadcast from Los Angeles. In 1957, Ginsburg won an Emmy for the outstanding contribution of the VTR and elected into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990. Since 1958, NASA has used Ampex data recorders and magnetic tape for all space missions and in 1960 Ampex received a special Oscar for technical achievement.
Timing is everything.