Did BBC air the footage live, or was it just part of their regular nightly newscast? It's interesting for me to hear how other countries reacted to it!
BBC had (and still have) a dedicated 24 hour rolling news channel. On BBC 1 (which is like, their main channel) they just said something like "We interrupt this programme for a breaking news story" or whatever, and then they just basically started showing the same feed as their news channel.
I'm pretty certain that ITV, another big network stopped their regular programming to report on it for at least a few hours.
Then on satellite we had Sky News doing their bit, a long with CNN, Fox etc...
Neat! Well, I think it's neat that they aired it live, too. Not neat that it happened to begin with. You know what I mean.
I'm kinda glad the 10 year anniversary is over, as now the TV stations will resume regular programming. It was hard to turn on the TV for the past week without seeing some special broadcast leading up to the 10th anniversary, or airing coverage of the memorial services yesterday. I feel bad saying it, but I couldn't watch any of it. It's almost as though the more we're bombarded with it, the more desensitized we've become. Which means the more outrageous the coverage has to be - I don't need to see two hours of footage of people jumping to their death, thanks.
Yeah we had special broadcasts all day yesterday. I happened to switch over right when Obama was giving his speech. It was on Sky News, BBC News (simulcasting with BBC 2), BBC Parliament (simulcasting with c-span), CNBC, CNN, NHK World (Japan channel, in English), Euronews, FOX, NDTV (India, in English), France 24 (English), Al Jazeera (English), Press TV (Iranian channel, in English), CNC World (Chinese, in English), and TV5 (in French).
It seemed kind of ridiculous that so many channels were covering the same event. And before that their docus on Discovery, Nat Geo. Channel 4 ran a docu last week about whether or not there should be a mosque at ground zero which was reasonably balanced, and they've been showing some movies based on what happened.
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BBC had (and still have) a dedicated 24 hour rolling news channel. On BBC 1 (which is like, their main channel) they just said something like "We interrupt this programme for a breaking news story" or whatever, and then they just basically started showing the same feed as their news channel.
I'm pretty certain that ITV, another big network stopped their regular programming to report on it for at least a few hours.
Then on satellite we had Sky News doing their bit, a long with CNN, Fox etc...
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I'm kinda glad the 10 year anniversary is over, as now the TV stations will resume regular programming. It was hard to turn on the TV for the past week without seeing some special broadcast leading up to the 10th anniversary, or airing coverage of the memorial services yesterday. I feel bad saying it, but I couldn't watch any of it. It's almost as though the more we're bombarded with it, the more desensitized we've become. Which means the more outrageous the coverage has to be - I don't need to see two hours of footage of people jumping to their death, thanks.
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It seemed kind of ridiculous that so many channels were covering the same event. And before that their docus on Discovery, Nat Geo. Channel 4 ran a docu last week about whether or not there should be a mosque at ground zero which was reasonably balanced, and they've been showing some movies based on what happened.
So yeah. I didn't watch much of it.
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