I was the producer at a Metro Networks office in Dayton, Ohio. In the producer's position, I had monitors for the 3 network affiliates, the scanners and the internet, which included Metro's quasi wire service, Metrosource. I looked up and saw Bryant Gumbel with the first bulletin and the smoldering tower. My co-workers couldn't see the monitors, so I quickly briefed them that a plane had just hit the WTC. At least one had gathered around as the second one hit. The morning shift was over, and we were all watching as the reports of the crash into the Pentagon came in. I had a job between shifts and I went to that. I turned on WLW radio to keep up reports. My boss at the secondary job was stranded wherever he was due to closing the airports.
By the time I got back for the afternoon shift, we were feeding Fox News, provided by Metro, to a couple of stations that didn't have a network affiliation. We weren't doing all that much traffic reporting that afternoon. A scanner call came in claiming a plane had crashed near the Veterans Hospital. It was never substantiated but the rumor persisted.
That evening, I'm sitting on the porch with a beautiful sky. There's absoutely nothing flying but the Careflight helicopter.
I don't remember what everybody was doing, but from what I remember:
WLW went into continuous coverage with the WLW news department and ABC coverage, some simulcast with TV. (Midday host Mike McConnell was off that day; PD Darryl Parks was set to fill. The local hosts didn't appear until evening (which I was dissapointed in). IIRC WLW fed the FM stations they had at the time, and also WONE, Dayton. I don't remember what Clear Channel FM s were doing in Dayton. WMOJ 94.9, Cincy's Jammin' Oldies was still playing music with updates. Cox was simulcasting WHIO on its 3 FMs (there was no fulltime WHIO FM simulcast at the time).
During the overnight, I remember Z93 (Eaton Dayton and Springfield Alive) carrying some network feed.
WLW normally ran Dale Sommers and the Truckin' Bozo show overnight, which was also carried on WHAM-1180, WWVA-1170, KWKH-1130 and probably others. Dale stayed local on WLW while weekend host Steve Sommers did the network feed.
Saturday night, WGRR, Cincinnati was an oldies station at the time and had a Saturday night feature called Dial-A-Hit The host said it would be a more "subdued" Dial-A-Hit---lots of songs like "What the World Needs Now is Love"
By the time I got back for the afternoon shift, we were feeding Fox News, provided by Metro, to a couple of stations that didn't have a network affiliation. We weren't doing all that much traffic reporting that afternoon. A scanner call came in claiming a plane had crashed near the Veterans Hospital. It was never substantiated but the rumor persisted.
That evening, I'm sitting on the porch with a beautiful sky. There's absoutely nothing flying but the Careflight helicopter.
I don't remember what everybody was doing, but from what I remember:
WLW went into continuous coverage with the WLW news department and ABC coverage, some simulcast with TV. (Midday host Mike McConnell was off that day; PD Darryl Parks was set to fill. The local hosts didn't appear until evening (which I was dissapointed in). IIRC WLW fed the FM stations they had at the time, and also WONE, Dayton. I don't remember what Clear Channel FM s were doing in Dayton. WMOJ 94.9, Cincy's Jammin' Oldies was still playing music with updates. Cox was simulcasting WHIO on its 3 FMs (there was no fulltime WHIO FM simulcast at the time).
During the overnight, I remember Z93 (Eaton Dayton and Springfield Alive) carrying some network feed.
WLW normally ran Dale Sommers and the Truckin' Bozo show overnight, which was also carried on WHAM-1180, WWVA-1170, KWKH-1130 and probably others. Dale stayed local on WLW while weekend host Steve Sommers did the network feed.
Saturday night, WGRR, Cincinnati was an oldies station at the time and had a Saturday night feature called Dial-A-Hit The host said it would be a more "subdued" Dial-A-Hit---lots of songs like "What the World Needs Now is Love"