Getting ready for school in front of the television, I was in primary school at the time. I didn’t appreciate the significance of what was happening until I saw my parents’ reaction after I told them.
Does anyone have an idea of how long the rolling coverage lasted after the initial event? I seem to remember it lasting for much of the day of the 12th, but I’m not sure when normal programming resumed.
It was nice of them to let Ray Martin anchor from lounge room in that first clip.
LOL 
Probably the Today show set? Nine didn’t have a mid-morning show in those days
After seeing the crawler on TV1, I recorded some of Ten’s coverage that night.
Ten using the Ten Sport watermark from 1999-2006 during the broadcast
I first heard the news about Sept 11 late in the evening while radio station searching at night. Being 13 at the time I didn’t understand it straight away (at like 11pm at night!). Pretty sure Ian ‘The Bear’ Maurice was presenting nights on 4BC then and that’s where I came across it.
Kerri-Anne wasn’t on?
I think that Mornings with Kerri-Anne started in 2003 (or maybe Late 2002?), but don’t quote me on that one.
Back in 2001 I’m pretty sure Nine was airing kids shows, old repeats and the “Fresh” cooking show during the 9am-11am timeslot.
2 part interview with Ten’s Sandra Sully, the Australian news reader who broke the news of the attacks on the twin towers.
Channel Ten was the first Australian network to break the news of the Al-Qaeda terror strikes.
How times change 
NBN News (back in the days when they had a Late Edition bulletin instead of carrying Nightline from Nine!) were also one of the first Australian stations to break into programing for coverage of the World Trade Centre attacks. I’m not 100% sure whether NBN broke into programing before or after Ten did with their well remembered coverage, but it was before Nine themselves went to rolling coverage if I’m not mistaken.
Speaking of NBN News Late Edition…while it’s not related to the September 11 coverage, I think this clip of the Opener from September 17*, 1996 (20 years ago this week!) might be of interest:
Thanks to hora27fm for uploading this one to YouTube.
*Actually, I think it’s from the 16th despite the description from the uploader because the lineup for programing airing “Tomorrow” on NBN is for a Tuesday night (17/9 was one back in 1996) so that should mean that the bulletin is from late on a Monday night (which 16/9 was).
Here’s NBN’s coverage of the 9/11 attacks on their Late Edition News. The description on these videos has some interesting information.
They sure have.
Not in 2001:
9am Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Cushion Kids
9.35 Barney And Friends
10am Pacific Drive
10.30 Fresh Cooking
11am National Nine News
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
Martin and Waley anchored from the Today Show set on September 12.
Was at a school holiday camp as a leader and I was about 17 years old and the kids were grade 7/8. We found out at the leaders meeting on the Wednesday morning and none of us could believe it, couldn’t see any TV’s with it and then all that day all of us leaders knew the world was in chaos yet we were unable to tell any of the kids anything. They managed to change the schedule during the night so the leaders got a few hours break to all go and talk to each other, or phone their parents (only one payphone, no mobiles and about 25 people all wanting to use it) and to try and piece together what was happening with so little information. There had already been talk about whether this was World War III or if Conscription would come back etc…
I managed to watch Southern Cross News that night along with a couple of others while everybody was having tea so I was one who had more information than a lot of the others but even then, it was still too much to take in and so many unknowns.
We made it through the week, by Friday some of the kids had heard stuff was going on and we had to ask them to keep it quiet as it was something best for the parents to discuss. I remember when I made it home, pure exhaustion from the week and then trying to catch up on all the news and for the first time ever I actually made myself physically sick with it all. By then most of the networks had resumed normal schedules with lots of newsbreaks however WIN (Nine) I believe was still doing rolling coverage but that was also because overnight that night was when Ansett Australia and associated airlines were all grounded and it was the end of an era there.
For so many it was the first time terrorism had ever been heard as a word, something which kids in primary school would have heard thousands of times now.
Any chance for a heritage listing for the front fence of the Brisbane ABC transmission site 
ABC’s tower on Sir Samuel Griffith’s Drive (it isn’t really Mt Cooth-tha, as that is down the road a bit and at a lower elevation). Site for ABC and SBS TV and ABC FM, JJJ, SBS, Nova and 97.3
The ABQ transmitter signage and gardens are in surprisingly good condition. Hopefully TX Australia can keep maintaining it so that it stays that way. The same can’t be said for the ABW transmitter site which is looking a bit sad by comparison yet shares a similar design to the ABQ Transmitter site.
I think you mean BA site…
I’ve found for the most part the BA sites are always kept fairly tidy. At least at Bald Hills and up at Mt Coot-tha anyway!
With Saturday Disney’s last episode coming up on September 24, here’s the classic closing credits theme that I basically associate with Saturday morning (but somehow I don’t remember how the opening theme went?)
