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NBC Affiliate Coverage of the Situation in London

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What did your local NBC affiliate do for coverage of the situation in London? WVIT Channel 30 (NBC O&O) in the Hartford/New Haven market dumpped out of their local news a little after 6AM Eastern and switched to MSNBC. Except for a couple interruptions for local weather they stuck with MSNBC until 7AM.<P ID="signature">______________
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> What did your local NBC affiliate do for coverage of the
> situation in London? WVIT Channel 30 (NBC O&O) in the
> Hartford/New Haven market dumpped out of their local news a
> little after 6AM Eastern and switched to MSNBC. Except for a
> couple interruptions for local weather they stuck with MSNBC
> until 7AM.
>

Here in Chicago we started our local coverage at 5am then at 6am we went to the live feed of Today and dumped our 6am news hour. My thing is since we are now live instead of airing today a hour later like usual. Today will end at 9am ct. So will WMAQ do a news at 9am before Ellen at 10am or will their be a "Special" hour of Today for the affiliates that went early?
 
> > What did your local NBC affiliate do for coverage of the
> > situation in London? WVIT Channel 30 (NBC O&O) in the
> > Hartford/New Haven market dumpped out of their local news
> a
> > little after 6AM Eastern and switched to MSNBC. Except for
> a
> > couple interruptions for local weather they stuck with
> MSNBC
> > until 7AM.
> >
>
> Here in Chicago we started our local coverage at 5am then at
> 6am we went to the live feed of Today and dumped our 6am
> news hour. My thing is since we are now live instead of
> airing today a hour later like usual. Today will end at 9am
> ct. So will WMAQ do a news at 9am before Ellen at 10am or
> will their be a "Special" hour of Today for the affiliates
> that went early?
>

Actually, on WLIW (Channel 21) in New York, a PBS station, they are showing the BBC World live news telecast. It cannot get any better than this.

TONY SANTIAGO
 
I woke up at 9:30am (yeah I'm lazy) and didn't know. Only WMAQ-TV Channel 5 NBC O&O is having extra news coverage. Our mayor was on at 9:30a telling people how safe Chicago is. I like when he said "If you see a suspicious package or strange acting people tell the train or bus operator." LOL... It's a subway half the people are strange and everyone has a backpack or package.

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> Actually, on WLIW (Channel 21) in New York, a PBS station,
> they are showing the BBC World live news telecast. It
> cannot get any better than this.


BBC America is running BBC's live coverage. As opposed to all
the second-guessing with 'experts'/talking heads that's going on all the American major news networks and cable news channels, BBC is actually reporting on what's happening in London.
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> > Actually, on WLIW (Channel 21) in New York, a PBS station,
>
> > they are showing the BBC World live news telecast. It
> > cannot get any better than this.
>
>
> BBC America is running BBC's live coverage. As opposed to
> all
> the second-guessing with 'experts'/talking heads that's
> going on all the American major news networks and cable
> news channels, BBC is actually reporting on what's happening
> in London.
>
YES, I so wish that I had access to one of those feeds via BBC America or a local PBS affiliate carrying BBC News (as WLIW in NY is). Here in NH, we're 0 for 2.

Throughout the morning, I kept wishing that Fox News would just shut up and let their SkyNews feed do the talking. They would tease us with 30 seconds or so of Sky content, then go local again. Sky seemed to be doing an excellent job, but FNC insists on having their anchors bloviate all morning - basically adding nothing.

Likewise CNN - I really would prefer to watch the CNNI feed over the continuous blabber from the US announcers.

Knowing London reasonably well, I would simply prefer to see a feed from across the pond. Where they really know what's going on and how to cover it.
 
> I woke up at 9:30am (yeah I'm lazy) and didn't know. Only
> WMAQ-TV Channel 5 NBC O&O is having extra news coverage. Our
> mayor was on at 9:30a telling people how safe Chicago is. I
> like when he said "If you see a suspicious package or
> strange acting people tell the train or bus operator."
> LOL... It's a subway half the people are strange and
> everyone has a backpack or package.
>
> It's only on days like this when I miss cable.
>
As of 12:30 PM (ET), NBC is the only one of the Big Three
still on the air with coverage, and that's because the Today
show stays on on the West Coast until 1 PM (ET)/10 AM (PT).
ABC went ahead with The View at 11 AM (ET); CBS went back to
regular programming at noon (ET), because WCBS's news was on,
while KCBS had The Larry Elder Show.

I would expect that, barring some new development, ABC, CBS,
and NBC will not be back until their 6:30 newscasts come on.
In the meantime, particularly if you live in a major city,
your local law-enforcement personnel may be on the air discussing
heightened security measures on mass-transit systems, so you
might want to keep tuned.
 
Re: Broadcast-Network Affiliate Coverage of the Situation in London

B. Patrick noted:

> ABC went ahead with The View at 11 AM (ET).....

The ABC afiliate here in Boston, WCVB-5, did not air "The View", instead broadcasting the West Coast feed of "Good Morning America" until it ended at 12 Noon EDT (9 A.M. PDT).
 
Re: Broadcast-Network Affiliate Coverage of the Situation in London

> B. Patrick noted:
>
> > ABC went ahead with The View at 11 AM (ET).....
>
> The ABC afiliate here in Boston, WCVB-5, did not air "The
> View", instead broadcasting the West Coast feed of "Good
> Morning America" until it ended at 12 Noon EDT (9 A.M. PDT).
>

You're such a dolt, I swear. It was ABC's Special Report for all time zones, not the WC's GMA feed.<P ID="signature">______________
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Re: Broadcast-Network Affiliate Coverage of the Situation in London

> > B. Patrick noted:
> >
> > > ABC went ahead with The View at 11 AM (ET).....
> >
> > The ABC afiliate here in Boston, WCVB-5, did not air "The
> > View", instead broadcasting the West Coast feed of "Good
> > Morning America" until it ended at 12 Noon EDT (9 A.M.
> PDT).
> >
>
> You're such a dolt, I swear. It was ABC's Special Report for
> all time zones, not the WC's GMA feed.
>


While there was a special report for a good deal of that hour, we got The View on our ABC at 11ET in Burlington, VT and not GMA.

In fact our Hearst-Argyle station, Ch. 5 WPTZ (NBC) stayed with Today until noon, so that may have come down from corporate to stay with the morning shows.
 
> What did your local NBC affiliate do for coverage of the
> situation in London? WVIT Channel 30 (NBC O&O) in the
> Hartford/New Haven market dumpped out of their local news a
> little after 6AM Eastern and switched to MSNBC. Except for a
> couple interruptions for local weather they stuck with MSNBC
> until 7AM.

Up here in Sacramento, KCRA (NBC) cut into Conan O'Brien's show at a little after 1am with MSNBC's first cut-ins, then went continuous at 1:35am from MSNBC and NBC. They took "Early Today" at 3am (Live eastern feed) and "Today" at 4am, then went to local news from 5-7am. They took the live Western edition of Today from 7-10am and bumped "Regis & Kelly" to 10am (normally airs at 9am).
 
Hi everyone:

> What did your local NBC affiliate do for coverage of the
> situation in London? WVIT Channel 30 (NBC O&O) in the
> Hartford/New Haven market dumpped out of their local news a
> little after 6AM Eastern and switched to MSNBC. Except for a
> couple interruptions for local weather they stuck with MSNBC
> until 7AM.

KUSA 9 here in Denver went directly to NBC at (I presume) 4:30 AM when they air "Early Today" and stayed with it well into the 5:00 AM newscast. Beyond that, it was a blend of local news and NBC coverage until 7:00 AM when they went to NBC and stayed with NBC until 10:00 AM (I don't even know if they took their usual :25 and :55 breaks for news during the 7-10 AM block).

KUSA picked up its regular programming schedule at 10:00 AM.

Incidentally, on a related note, FOX O&O KDVR 31 started airing FOX News at 5:00 AM and basically made it an extension of their usual 5:30-8:00 AM "Good Day Colorado" morning newscast. They also included coverage from FNC during the morning newscast. They went on with their usual schedule at 8:00 AM.

KWGN 2 picked up CNN till 9:00 AM when they too went on with their usual morning schedule.

Both KWGN & KDVR interrupted programming for the DHS news conference though. KDVR's coverage was via FOX News on the regular FOX Network though, the only time I recall the regular FOX Network being utilized for coverage of the event. I don't believe CNN ever tapped into the WB Network for ANY of its coverage of the attack, though I stand corrected if I'm wrong though. :)

That's the report from here. :)

Cheers for now :)

Pat Cook
Denver, Colorado
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Hi everyone:

> Actually, on WLIW (Channel 21) in New York, a PBS station,
> they are showing the BBC World live news telecast. It
> cannot get any better than this.

Yeah KBDI 12 here in Denver also did this as well (A PBS relay?). Anyhow, after awhile, I got tired of the domestic network schmucks talking over their British colleagues and switched to BBC America, which was simulcasting BBC World at times in which they weren't providing their own coverage.

BBC America was DEFINATELY *THE* channel to turn to if it was available to you as everything else was quite speculative (FNC being the biggest offender of course!).

Cheers for now :)

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Hi everyone:

> Throughout the morning, I kept wishing that Fox News would
> just shut up and let their SkyNews feed do the talking.
> They would tease us with 30 seconds or so of Sky content,
> then go local again. Sky seemed to be doing an excellent
> job, but FNC insists on having their anchors bloviate all
> morning - basically adding nothing.

Which is most likely why KDVR pretty much dropped the simulcast with FNC when it came time to start their morning newscast and only switching back to FNC when there was a major development or an important news conference of some kind had started.

> Likewise CNN - I really would prefer to watch the CNNI feed
> over the continuous blabber from the US announcers.

You're lucky. I don't get CNN International here in Denver. Must be a Time-Warner Cable exclusive or something (Comcast is my local cable company).

> Knowing London reasonably well, I would simply prefer to see
> a feed from across the pond. Where they really know what's
> going on and how to cover it.

For awhile there (before Brian Williams came on), MSNBC was simulcasting ITN. But by then, I was honed in on BBC America and the coverage from sister network BBC World.

Cheers for now :)

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