I know the morning breakfast television shows starts live at 7AM (EST). I know the morning shows have an update version for the west coast viewers usually the first 5-15 minutes. When it comes to Central and Mountain time zone. Are the morning shows delayed 1-2 hours for their local stations to start at 7am. Do they have a live feed that specified for the central and mountain time zone for up to date and breaking news?
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i think so
i think during the 9/11 attacks, most Central and West Coast stations were airing ABC, CBS and NBC's morning shows pre-taped on a hour delay basis until shortly before 9 AM ET, 8 AM CT, 7 AM CT, 6 AM PT when the first reports of the first hijack plane hitting the North Tower of the World Trade Center came in and everyone in all 4 coast saw live the second plane and the rest of the attack and building collapses of the twin towers live. i do believe in Dallas, WFAA Channel 8 (ABC), KTVT CBS 11 and KXAS NBC 5 were airing the morning shows on tape delay until the their respected networks broke into the pre-taped programming for live coverage and KDFW Fox 4 was live and they covered it with them joining in on live coverage from WNYW Fox 5 out of New York City of the start of the attack itself due to Fox having no national morning show and KDFW's Good Day Dallas already into it's at the time second to last hour of news and entering it's scheduled last hour at 8 AM, and in 2001, they end their Good Day Dallas newscast at 9 AM for "Live with" which was at the time hosted by the late Regis Philbin and then newcomer Kelly Ripa.
Here on the West Coast we originally had local news cover 9/11/01 by simulcasting the local New York TV Stations before going to the network given that here in the West Local News at the time started at 5am pst. Then we went to the network. Usually the networks provide a West coast edition of their national newscasts by stating "For our viewers in the West".
Unless there's a major breaking news story, the Central and Mountain Time Zones see the exact same program as the Eastern Time Zone, but on either a one or two hour delay. Like you said, the Pacific Time Zone might get an updated first 5-15 minutes, but that's not really an everyday occurrence. Most days, they will just record an intro welcoming "our viewers on the West Coast" or something along those lines.
Back in the day, (60s, 70s) the feed was live from 7-9 Eastern, and in the Central time zone, they saw the Eastern zone 8am hour live at 7, then the Eastern time 7am hour at 8, the hours being reversed. Urban legend has it that that changed after Pope John Paul's death during the morning, when Central Time viewers saw the news that the Pope had died at 7:30, and that he was in critical condition during the 8am news (as seen in the CT zone).
When I lived in the Central Time zone, I saw breaking news still being covered in the 8am Central Time zone hour, with the time on one of the networks showing as 9:04am EDT, flipping to to one of the others, it said 8:04am CDT.
When I lived in the Central Time zone, I saw breaking news still being covered in the 8am Central Time zone hour, with the time on one of the networks showing as 9:04am EDT, flipping to to one of the others, it said 8:04am CDT.
There was video on YouTube of the Denver NBC affiliate which had covered the initial attack during local news, flipped to the recorded Today show for a few minutes and then quick-cut to the live coverage.
The pacific zone routinely gets the east coast feed on a three hour delay, unless there is breaking news. Even then, depending on the seriousness of the news, they revert to the non-news segments which makes up about 75 percent of content. Because those cooking segments are SO important. I will say CBS is more intelligent than ABC and NBC in this daypart.
Keep in mind that these shows are staffed so that they can, on moments notice, provide live coverage to the west coast if breaking news requires it. That means at least one of the hosts is on standby, one of the news anchors is on standby and editorial staff are on standby if they need to replace the recorded segments with live content. This also applies to a few other national shows such as NPR's Morning Edition. Normally the hosts of that show are in the building during west coast refeeds pre-taping segments for the next day's show.
They'll figure out a way to cover the time. As it is, the networks have "early" versions of their morning shows.
Year-round daylight time is just talk unless the federal government acts. Nearly no one in state government is calling to revert to year round standard time, which could be done without federal approval; year round DST would be a federal issue. Should the northeastern states and Florida go on their own for that, late news at midnight probably isn't going to sit well with advertisers. As for mornings, don't all the networks feed early hours of their main morning show? (Early Today for example).
Early Today is 30 mins at 4 am. Totally separate from the Today Show.
Of course a time zone shift won't happen unless Congress approves it and all the states enact laws changing it.
I can see it happening on a federal level at some point.
Time zone changes, including daylight savings, are wishful thinking. As others have mentioned changes like this would need congressional approval. Not an important issue in Congress today. Things will stay the same for a long while.
Umm? I don't know if this will really happen though. I know Arizona is the only state where it switches from Mountain Time to Pacific Time on DST and in Standard time it moves to Mountain time.
I saw a newspaper article one time explaining the situation and it wasn't meant to be serious because it ended with "And in Hawaii, they are still watching Dave Garroway."
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It should be noted that the first Tower was hit at 6:42 AM MT which would put the network morning shows a mere 18 minutes from beginning had nothing happened that fateful day
* It should also be noted that then Fox-owned KDVR 31 DID NOT have a news operation at the time
* KTVD 20 didn't have a newscast AT ALL
* While KWGN 2 DID have a news operation (Today, it's the bastard child of KDVR), it DID NOT (to MY knowledge & recollection) have a morning newscast at the time & was likely in the dark with what was happening until either CNN started simulcasting on The WB or they were able to pick up then-sister station WPIX 11 (Which today is a sister of ABC affiliate KMGH 7)
JeeperOne
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Arizona doesn't seem to be in any hurry
If enough East Coast states switched to Atlantic Time/permanent daylight saving time the networks could consider an Atlantic Time feed for prime time and for Good Morning America, Today and CBS This Morning. (Though I still doubt it happens). I think it would be worth not having local news at midnight at least during the week. At least I wish they would. Ideally if some of the Eastern Time Zone stations wanted to try early prime, the early primetime feed (7-10pm Eastern, 8-11pm Atlantic) could be offered all year. The network daytime shows could be on a one day delay in the winter. (Except Days of Our Lives, it is fed earlier by NBC). I’ve always wanted permanent DST but primetime sports in the winter would be the biggest downside. It appears this is a very long shot.
Not a long shot, a no shot.
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