Bin Laden is dead no regular TV schedule the rest of the night.

[DToTheJ]

...I see Fox News has his name as Usama Bin Laden. Is this some sort of alternate spelling I wasn't aware of or did FNC screw up again.

Nothing new. FNC had been spelling his name that way for at least ten years.

(Emphasis on the word "had", of course. )

 

[Bill_W]

Does anyone really care? After all this time? Well?

Yes, I care. How often is the crawl on ALL the ESPN networks running news and to turn to ABC News for more info instead of sports scores and info? All the networks and cable news channels had regular weekday anchors coming in at 11pm on a Sunday night.

 

[Markxxx]

SO what is the cable coverage of this like, I can't get OTA TV and I don't have cable. So I guess I'll bring my laptop (with the DTV tuner) to the library for awhile. My gym has CNN though, so I was kind of wondering is it all OBL?

 

[nomadcowatbk]

Does anyone really care? After all this time? Well?

Yes, I care. How often is the crawl on ALL the ESPN networks running news and to turn to ABC News for more info instead of sports scores and info? All the networks and cable news channels had regular weekday anchors coming in at 11pm on a Sunday night.

What if this had happened during a non-sweeps period when the regular weekday anchors might be off?

 

[charles123]

Good Ridden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bpatrick]

Of course we care! The most anticipated and celebrated death since Adolph Hitler! And those two are probably becoming well acquainted with each other right about now!

Also Hideki Tojo, the Prime Minister of Japan whose thirst for revenge after the United States cut off oil supplies to that country in 1940-41 prompted the attack on Pearl Harbor.

But to get back to television coverage: this is something most Americans have hoped and prayed for for ten years; naturally it warrants extensive coverage; after all, 9/11 is one of those "where were you when..." events like Pearl Harbor or JFK's assassination. And I suspect there'll be a lot more on the "Today" show, "Good Morning America", "The Early Show", and the cable news channels this morning.

Let's just hope this doesn't unleash a wave of terrorist attacks worldwide.

 

[MarcB]

I first got word something was about to go down at about 10:20PM last night when I was on Facebook and I-98.3 (a CHR station in Eastern Connecticut) put on their Facebook Page "AP: President to Address Nation at 10:30PM Eastern. Subject Unknown). Through their Facebook Page I learned of Bin Laden's death. They had it even before the networks came on.

I noticed that CBS (WFSB) was the last to switch over to news programming. FOX (WTIC-TV), I don't even know if they had coverage. They were still airing their own Sunday night Sports Wrap-Up Show - Sports Ticket. Later still I saw NBC (WVIT) running their local news and Sunday Night Sports Wrap-Up Show on a delay. Some time later I noticed regular programming on WFSB.

What time did ABC stop network coverage?

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

What time did ABC stop network coverage?

ABC wrapped up at 1 AM ET, an hour later than NBC and CBS (midnight ET).

ABC News Radio, by the way, kept going another hour until 2 AM ET. They were running separate coverage from the TV side, with Washington bureau reporter Steven Portnoy anchoring.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

I believe CBS broke at midnight ET/9 PM PT so it could show the rest of its schedule in the Pacific time zone, with "The Amazing Race" bumped to 9 PM, "Undercover Boss" at 10, and "CSI: Miami" pre-empted for the week.

 

[recto101]

KTTV in Los Angeles is showing FOX network programming. Right now The Cleveland Show is on. :-\

KTVU the Fox Station in San Francisco aired the Bin Laden assasination from CNN instead of Fox News..

 

[mjlarochelle]

In Canada, we watched Amazing Race uninterrupted, then switched to The Celebrity Apprentice, and Global broke away about an hour after Obama spoke, for a news break and PM Harper's address. Then the Apprentice resumed. :

That's not a surprise at all. Canada itself could sink into the Arctic Ocean and CTV and Global would wait until 11 to say anything. They won't even interrupt for storm warnings.

 

[formeraa]

The networks are going to be scrambling to refeed all these programs to their viewers. Expect some schedule shuffling as everything from The Amazing Race to The Celebrity Apprentice is reslotted.

In Phoenix, CBS went immediately to "CSI: Miami" (after CBS interrupted Amazing Race and left me hanging). Then, in an odd twist, CBS5 broke in with local news before the end of "CSI: Miami".

As a huge "Amazing Race" fan, I'll be on the internet tonight watching the end of the race. Then, I'll have to find "Desperate Housewives" and "Brothers and Sisters".

 

[Silkie]

Does anyone really care? After all this time? Well?

Absolutely! It is a huge deal to Americans whose compatriots were murdered, as well as to the countries whose citizens were our guests and were murdered on that day, Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

KTVU the Fox Station in San Francisco aired the Bin Laden assasination from CNN instead of Fox News..

It was not an assasination. Our country's stated position has always been that if we cannot bring him to justice, we will bring justice to him. We hunted him down, as per our nation's stated policy, and whether we brought him to justice dead or alive was no particular concern of ours, as per our nation's stated policy. He was the mastermind, which equates to premeditated murder.

 

[KERCAlum]

FOX 4 (KDFW) in Dallas first said something during their 9pm newscast (at around 9:18 or so). Ten minutes before that, my wife got on the MSNBC website and noted the first appearance of the "mystery" Obama address scheduled for 9:30. I got on Twitter shortly thereafter and it was there I discovered the address would be about OBL. The address at 10:02 PM CDT was kind of anticlimactic after that. I know that KXAS/Channel 5 and WFAA/Channel 8 broke in about 9:20 or so. I watched CNN until after the address - can't stand MSNBC and Geraldo Rivera was on FOX, and I can stand him even less. KDFW wasn't really saying much during their newscast except "We're following breaking news" and then repeating what was being said on Twitter, so I flipped over.

 

[Sammi Brie]

In Phoenix, CBS went immediately to "CSI: Miami" (after CBS interrupted Amazing Race and left me hanging). Then, in an odd twist, CBS5 broke in with local news before the end of "CSI: Miami".

As a huge "Amazing Race" fan, I'll be on the internet tonight watching the end of the race. Then, I'll have to find "Desperate Housewives" and "Brothers and Sisters".

What, are they "Telling It Like It Is" at the Pit Stop? "Sorry, Osama and Saif, you have been eliminated from the Race."

Phoenix, Sacramento, Tucson and Yuma all missed Race (Sacramento because of the unique KOVR situation). That's a combined market larger than Chicago that missed The Amazing Race.

 

[mgsports]

CBS didn't call in Weekday Anchor and HD version sound was low.
FOX4KC showed it and at 11pm went to Seinfeld and not Local Newscast.

 

[TheBigA]

CBS didn't call in Weekday Anchor and HD version sound was low.

Their weekday anchor has already announced she's leaving. They used several members of the 60 Minutes team and Russ Mitchell.

Brian Williams arrived pretty late in their coverage, and he didn't stay long. Normally he would have transitioned to MSNBC, but he didn't.

 

[mgsports]

Yes he was on MSNBC at midnight and so was David Gregory.

 

[TheBigA]

Yes he was on MSNBC at midnight.

Well then I missed him. When I switched to MSNBC, there was someone I'd never seen before.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Did Fox offer ANY coverage to its broadcast stations? I didn't see any on WJW "Fox 8" here, but I was tuning around and may have missed it.

I heard that Fox stations could pick up FNC, which eventually got simulcast on the broadcast network.