LIVE Clips of 9/11 Attacks & Suspended Programming

[E-Dub]

I've seen a few videos of LIVE footage of the 2nd plane crashing and both towers collapsing. Does anyone have video of any station's LIVE coverage of the attacks as they happened? Also, would anyone have a list of which cable channels did what on that day or which sites explain what they did, whether they carried a sister network's coverage, ran a ticker across their screen, or put up slide saying they suspended programming? I vaguely remember what every channel did. If you have any video or screen captures of these channels, it would also be greatly appreciated.

 

[MarcB]

WB-11 in NYC had an image of the burning tower's frozen on their screen for several hours that day. Their tower was up there. Here's the pic of what was frozen on their screen from Wikipedia.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Wpix-911.jpg/200px-Wpix-911.jpg

 

[enigmawi]

a couple that I remember...

* MTV & VH1 showed CBS's feed
* HSN, QVC, Animal Planet, and HGTV showed slides saying they suspended programing. There were others that did the same thing, these are the only ones I can remember.

 

[radiolives]

Anyone know a website where we can see the video of where as an example program on MTV went to CBS News? Would just want to see the flip over how it happend.

Here are some I remember
TNT, TBS, (not sure if Turner Classic) but they all showed CNN
Disney, Nick stayed with kids programs for reasons so kids wouldn't see this
USA Network, Sci Fi stayed with regular programing as they didn't have a news partner or today they would show MSNBC I am sure.

 

[BRice16]

All of the Turner networks except for Cartoon Network went to CNN. All of the Fox Sports Nets went to Fox News.

ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews and ESPNClassic all went to ABC. ESPN had a SportsCenter special that ran over and over starting at about 5PM, but I'm pretty sure they went back to ABC around 9 or 10 PM.

 

[enigmawi]

If I remember correctly, at some point, MTV broke away from the news coverage to play videos.. It was mostly softer music, and a scroll at the bottom explaning the music and starting when normal programing would resume.

 

[bhayes1016]

Anyone know a website where we can see the video of where as an example program on MTV went to CBS News? Would just want to see the flip over how it happend.

Here are some I remember
TNT, TBS, (not sure if Turner Classic) but they all showed CNN
Disney, Nick stayed with kids programs for reasons so kids wouldn't see this
USA Network, Sci Fi stayed with regular programing as they didn't have a news partner or today they would show MSNBC I am sure.

IIRC Nick flipped to the CBS simulcast at the time when Nick at Nite would have started (9 eastern/8 central?)
All the premium movie channels stayed with regular programming, but IIRC HBO occasionally ran crawls reminding viewers to tune to CNN for the latest news.

 

[MarcB]

WSAH Channel 43 in Bridgeport, Connecticut which at the time was a Shop-At-Home Network affiliate owned by Summit America Television didn't even use whatever news network that was running on Shop-At-Home. They were just showing slides of some sort and played music. (Note: Since at the time I lived in an area where WSAH wasn't on cable, I'm using second hand information).

Remembers:

WFSB CBS - CBS News
WVIT NBC - NBC News
WTIC-TV FOX - FOX News Channel
WTNH ABC - ABC News
WTXX WB - Simul of WTIC-TV (Until "The WB News Network" came on at 3PM, which I think was from WPIX NYC)
WCTX UPN - Simul of WTNH
WHPX PAX - Infomercials til Noon. Simul of WVIT afterwards
WRDM-LP Telemundo/J-TV - Telemundo News only. J-TV temporarily dropped.
WUVN - UNI - Univision

TBS - CNN
Shop-At-Home : CNN Headline News
HGTV - Programming Suspended
MTV - CBS News for a while
Nick - Regular Programming
Fox Sports New England - Fox News Channel
MSG - Programming Suspended?
ESPN - ABC News
ESPN 2 - ABC News
BET - CBS News?
FX - Fox News Channel
TNT - CNN
Lifetime - Regular Programming - Occasioanl Scrool Telling People to tune to their local ABC Station.
Fox Family - Regular Programming Ran Occasional Scroll Telling People to tune to the Fox News Channel.
CNBC - NBC (Duh)
CNN - CNN (Duh)
CNN Headline News - CNN (Duh)
A&E - Programming Supended?
USA - Regular Programming?
QVC - Programming Suspended
MSNBC - MSNBC (Duh)
TLC - BBC America
Court TV - ?
TNN - CBS News
EWTN - Regular Programing
Cartoon Network - Regular Programming
Sci-Fi - Regular Programmign
VH-1 - WCBS/2 NYC
Food Network - Programming Suspened
CSPAN - WUSA/9 Washington DC
New England Cable News - ABC News
Disney Channel - Regular Programming
History Channel - Programming Suspended?
The Weather Channel - Regular Programming
HSN - News World International
ShopNBC - MSNBC

 

[azumanga]

Nick - Regular Programming

Almost -- during this time, Nick had a live, late-afternoon show called "Slime Time Live", but that was suspended for the rest of the week -- full episodes of Catdog and Hey Arnold were seen instead (usually, they were half-episodes during Slime Time).

Another casualty of 9/11 was "Invader Zim", which was taken off the schedule for several weeks.

CSPAN - WUSA/9 Washington DC

Was this only for the main C-Span channel, or for all three?

HSN - News World International

Imagine this: What if Current replaced NWI before 9/11, instead of 2005?

 

[radiolives]

As the other poster said The Weather Channel just went with showing weather. I think I remember them telling people about we know what is going on in New York and Washington D.C. right now. So please turn to your local news channel. Something like that.

Another thing was this the first time networks suspended programming for a major news story like this one?

 

[bhayes1016]

As the other poster said The Weather Channel just went with showing weather. I think I remember them telling people about we know what is going on in New York and Washington D.C. right now. So please turn to your local news channel. Something like that.

Another thing was this the first time networks suspended programming for a major news story like this one?

The first time in the cable era, yes. The only thing you can compare it to would be the first space shuttle explosion, and IIRC most cable channels stayed with regular programming at that time. The only other event of that magnitude would be the Kennedy assassination, which of course happened in the three-network era.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

I've seen a few videos of LIVE footage of the 2nd plane crashing and both towers collapsing. Does anyone have video of any station's LIVE coverage of the attacks as they happened? Also, would anyone have a list of which cable channels did what on that day or which sites explain what they did, whether they carried a sister network's coverage, ran a ticker across their screen, or put up slide saying they suspended programming? I vaguely remember what every channel did. If you have any video or screen captures of these channels, it would also be greatly appreciated.

I have edited coverage of the days news that my ex-roommate and I put to VHS off of TiVo. I was watching KHOU-11 the morning of the attacks (KHOU carries only certain segments of the Early Show during 7:00 hour; at the time Early aired a Dr. Senay health update at about 7:50), waiting for the 7:55 weather update, when Bryant Gumble broke in to announce the first tower had been hit.

I flipped to ABC, which was in a commercial, and NBC which was also in commercial (I think) then to the Fox station, which was carrying live feed from Fox News Channel. I had just hit the channel number to flip back to ABC when the second plane came into view of WNYW's choppercam and struck the second tower. I hit the return-to-previous button and thankfully the TiVo saved the gutter of the last 5 or 10 minutes of me watching.

Between flipping from the 4 locals and CNN, MSNBC and Fox, the Tivo recorded about 15 hours of coverage (on a 20-hour Tivo) and we later put it to VHS. I've watched it only once since we put it to VHS. I just couldn't handle it that well.

 

[DoctorBear]

As the other poster said The Weather Channel just went with showing weather. I think I remember them telling people about we know what is going on in New York and Washington D.C. right now. So please turn to your local news channel. Something like that.

Another thing was this the first time networks suspended programming for a major news story like this one?

The first time in the cable era, yes. The only thing you can compare it to would be the first space shuttle explosion, and IIRC most cable channels stayed with regular programming at that time. The only other event of that magnitude would be the Kennedy assassination, which of course happened in the three-network era.

Uh, you might include the Gulf War in that.

 

[Joe_Capitano]

To Mark's long list let me add another entry: TVG, a channel devoted to horse racing.

TVG, then barely two years old and getting most of its audience from dish Network, was to have carried coverage of the Keeneland September Sale from Kentucky. For much of the morning Todd Schrupp and Caton Bredar covered the story as it affected the horse racing industry in particular, with on-site reaction and reports from Jeff Lifson at Keeneland.

As the day wore on they carried a simulcast of FNC with a crawl and regular cut-ins to the TVG studio. That was all they did for the first two or three days, as things slowly ramped up at their partner tracks and at the Sale.

 

[dxtrfn]

Horse Racing resumed on 9/13/01 except in New York were it was suspended until 9/18/01. The people that had TVG at the time was glad to see some other than the around the clock coverage of the attacks.

 

[Poledo]

I remember the local (Mobile, AL) OTA shopping channels switching to news coverage but the 3 local christian TV stations stayed with regular programing. Same with radio, all the christian radio stations stayed with preaching and gospel music, never mentioning the attack. I can't help but wonder what they would have been broadcasting if the EBS was activated?
As others have already posted, most cable channels found a news source to simulcast on 9/11 but my favorite was VH1 carrying WCBS.
I'm pretty sure HBO and Cinemax simulcast CNN for a little while that morning.

 

[4dude]

I thought it was wierd that movie stations like HBO,TMC,etc..... Didnt sawy from thier schedule to cover this event!!! I think 98% of everyone was watching the news)

 

[network]

I'm pretty sure HBO and Cinemax simulcast CNN for a little while that morning.

Nope, they did not.

I thought it was wierd that movie stations like HBO,TMC,etc..... Didnt sawy from thier schedule to cover this event!!! I think 98% of everyone was watching the news)

Why would they? They are premium networks.

IIRC, I believe some of the movies with terrorist attack themes wound up being taken off the schedule for awhile. I know networks like TBS, TNT and USA did that.

 

[EnbyCee]

IIRC, I believe some of the movies with terrorist attack themes wound up being taken off the schedule for awhile. I know networks like TBS, TNT and USA did that.

I also remember Fox shelving a scheduled airing of "Independence Day" (a movie which depicts catastrophic attacks on many US cities, albeit by aliens) on the night they returned to regular programming in favor of the comedy "Mrs. Doubtfire".

 

[intx]

I remember Oxygen carried New York 1, Time Warner's 24-hour cable news channel in NYC, for an extended period of time.