Just before Ten went into a commercial break. It would be their last commercial break for until after 5pm on September 12.
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Wow. That must be a record for a commercial television station in Australia not to go to an ad break for so long.
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No network in America went to a commercial break after 8.52AM ET
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The moment Sully broke the news to Australia
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Based on footage that Ten has shown in packages, this would be some time after it was first mentioned on Ten Late News:
This is Jodi Mckay on NBN:
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Ten Late News from that night (maybe you shouldn’t put the volume up, there’s a terrible TERRIBLE background noise so you can’t hear the audio at all). Maybe one day the earlier parts of the bulletin will surface in all its entirety with proper audio.
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Just incessantly for the 15 years+ of the board!
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It is interesting that WNBC-4 crashed over Today for New York viewers at 8:50am to show footage of the first tower on fire, while moments later as Today continued for the rest of the east coast Matt Lauer said they were going to show pictures of a breaking story about the World Trade Centre but then the pictures weren’t available so they went to a commercial break. Today was back at 8:53am with live coverage of the World Trade Centre, which was three minutes after WNBC.
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I believe this was a miscommunication.
Six people died and 1000 more were injured in the 1993 bombings. CNBC reported during the hours that followed that six had died and 1000 more were injured in the initial 9/11 crashes, which is very coincidental. Part of me thinks some wires were crossed.
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How did 7 broke from regular programming?
There’s a YT video of the 5pm and 6pm Sydney bulletin on 12 September 2001 featuring Ross Symonds and Ann Sanders for a while. Video ends just as TT went to air that evening.
Perth had updates with Susannah Carr during the day.
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This was around 10:30PM AEST when Ray Martin handed coverage over to Jim Waley on Nine
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53 years ago today since Ronald Ryan became the last man to be legally executed in Australia.
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Just before the Tienanmen Square massacre, CNN is ordered – live on the air – to stop broadcasting from Beijing:
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The Tenerife air disaster – a collision of two Boeing 747s – happened just over 43 years ago. It remains the deadliest aviation accident of all times. This is how it was covered by ABC in the United States:
…and by Antenne 2 in France:
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NBC Today show 28 April (29 April in Australia) with report from Australia on Port Arthur massacre.
Seven Nightly News
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This is a TV history thread. I’ve deleted a couple of posts which were things that happened on this day with no relevance to coverage etc.
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Some coverage of the 1992 LA riots.
Included Hinch program crossing to Ten reporter Ken Burslam who was assaulted and robbed while covering the events.
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It’s 1992 and Hurricane Andrew is approaching southern Florida. Here’s CNN’s PrimeNews:
Andrew would turn out to be one of the most catastrophic hurricanes ever to strike the U.S.
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2 years ago
A special 10pm bulletin from Seven on the last night of the rescue
A special 6am bulletin from 10 from the day before
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Funny how they still had “first at 5” at 6am!
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