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London Underground Explosion coverage...

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Early at around 8:50am GMT, (3:50am EST) several explosions were reported in London Underground subways and buses.

CNN was on the air with Daybreak from Atlanta and Fredrica Whitfield but at 4am they moved to CNNI coverage (CNN domestic graphics on screen), but from my vantage point none of the major networks were on it...

BBC News 24, Sky News(relayed via Fox News Channel) and ITV News Channel were on the scene in Britain.<P ID="signature">______________

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> Early at around 8:50am GMT, (3:50am EST) several explosions
> were reported in London Underground subways and buses.
>
> CNN was on the air with Daybreak from Atlanta and Fredrica
> Whitfield but at 4am they moved to CNNI coverage (CNN
> domestic graphics on screen), but from my vantage point none
> of the major networks were on it...
>
> BBC News 24, Sky News(relayed via Fox News Channel) and ITV
> News Channel were on the scene in Britain.
>

CBS, ABC and NBC all started their coverage around the time they would have aired their morning shows. NBC aired special reports from the TODAY news desk. ABC and CBS also aired some inserts but a lot of my networks (im in Chicago) were in local morning news, switching from local to network every so often. WGN aired CNN news and came back every so often with a terror expert. All Chicago networks went to LIVE Network feeds at 6am instead of 7am ct.
 
In Boston, the "big there" affiliates (CBS-owned WBZ-4, ABC affiliate WCVB-5 and NBC affiliate WHDH-7) stayed with their respective networks' live coverage until 12 Noon when they began their local noon newscasts.

WBZ expanded their Noon news past it's usual end at 12:30; at this writing (12:40 P.M. EDT), it's still on. WCVB's noon news was not extended past 12:30, and ABC's network coverage must have ended because WCVB is running "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?". WHDH's noon news is normally an hour long anyway, running until 1.
 
> In Boston, the "big there" affiliates (CBS-owned WBZ-4, ABC
> affiliate WCVB-5 and NBC affiliate WHDH-7) stayed with their
> respective networks' live coverage until 12 Noon when they
> began their local noon newscasts.
>
> WBZ expanded their Noon news past it's usual end at 12:30;
> at this writing (12:40 P.M. EDT), it's still on. WCVB's noon
> news was not extended past 12:30, and ABC's network coverage
> must have ended because WCVB is running "Who Wants To Be A
> Millionaire?". WHDH's noon news is normally an hour long
> anyway, running until 1.
>
Is CNN taking the feed from ITV? Our Phoenix Indy KTVK (3TV) is a CNN affiliate...but some of the coverage was apparently from ITV (blue and yellow graphics)
 
> > In Boston, the "big there" affiliates (CBS-owned WBZ-4,
> ABC
> > affiliate WCVB-5 and NBC affiliate WHDH-7) stayed with
> their
> > respective networks' live coverage until 12 Noon when they
>
> > began their local noon newscasts.
> >
> > WBZ expanded their Noon news past it's usual end at 12:30;
>
> > at this writing (12:40 P.M. EDT), it's still on. WCVB's
> noon
> > news was not extended past 12:30, and ABC's network
> coverage
> > must have ended because WCVB is running "Who Wants To Be A
>
> > Millionaire?". WHDH's noon news is normally an hour long
> > anyway, running until 1.
> >
> Is CNN taking the feed from ITV? Our Phoenix Indy KTVK (3TV)
> is a CNN affiliate...but some of the coverage was apparently
> from ITV (blue and yellow graphics)
>
I believe they did take some ITV News Channel footage. (On the repeating loop that they've been running, you could see some of their graphics and the ITV logo)<P ID="signature">______________

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> Is CNN taking the feed from ITV? Our Phoenix Indy KTVK
> (3TV)
> > is a CNN affiliate...but some of the coverage was
> apparently
> > from ITV (blue and yellow graphics)
> >
> I believe they did take some ITV News Channel footage. (On
> the repeating loop that they've been running, you could see
> some of their graphics and the ITV logo)

CNN has a long-standing relationship with ITV. ABC News has a relationship with BBC.

BBC America was absolutely invaluable this morning. Live simulcast of BBC1/News 24 programming, commercial-free, all morning long -- and the kind of context missing from the American news networks.
 
Hi everyone:

> > Is CNN taking the feed from ITV? Our Phoenix Indy KTVK
> (3TV)
> > is a CNN affiliate...but some of the coverage was
> apparently
> > from ITV (blue and yellow graphics)
> >
> I believe they did take some ITV News Channel footage. (On
> the repeating loop that they've been running, you could see
> some of their graphics and the ITV logo)

What amazes me is that NO ONE here in the States picked up Britain's famous Channel 4 and ITS news coverage. You would think CNN would have the smarts to do that since ITN is a broadcast partner with MSNBC.

Just a thought :)

Cheers for now :)
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