New Zealand would have been completely asleep. I’m assuming Television coverage didn’t start until Breakfast time after the events had unfolded on TVNZ and Three?
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From what has been mentioned on Twitter. TVNZ’s coverage would of been from BBC World as the network would close down at midnight and switch to the BBC each night (First plane hit at 12.46am NZT). A former Breakfast staffer said Breakfast went to air at 4.30am September 12 and would remain on air for 8 hours and Three which used its ABC America coverage began the morning with a 3 News Special at 5am. Not sure what Prime had but I highly doubt it considering it was a minor player and had no national news bulletin until 2004 with the launch of Prime News First at 5.30pm.
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6 local New York Stations.
I’m assuming FOX5 (WNYW) was the first television station in the world to break the news.
National Networks. CNN was the first major Network to break the news.
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Credit YouTube/adelaidecrowsrdabest
Small portion of 7’s coverage with Chris Reason and then-US bureau chief Mike Amor in the early hours of 12 September, 2001
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Just found this video of Australian television channels on September 12 2001
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Rhett Bartlett has uploaded BTQ’s 9/11 coverage from 5pm-6pm AEST with the late Frank Warrick and Kay McGrath anchoring.
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Ten News at Five Melbourne, 12th September 2001
National Nine News Melbourne, 12th September 2001
Sky News Australia, 3pm 12th September 2001
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@BigVic has PM’d me to share these. I believe the videos come from the poster above^
Australian 9/11 Coverage : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive - coverage on the morning of 12 September 2001. 7 had NBC Nightly News and Sunrise, 9 had Today, 10 had Ron Wilson (Cheez TV was abandoned) and ABC had Tony Eastley (children’s programming was abandoned). All regular progamming was abandoned for most of that day with coverage from NBC, ABC America and CBS.
Ten News First at Five from 12 September 2001
60 min edition of National Nine News Melbourne co-anchored by Peter Hitchener and Jo Hall
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Channel 7 Melbourne’s broadcast on September 11 2001.
Talking Footy into Breaking News break back to completion of Talking Footy into Ch7 news rolling coverage.
This footage was provided to me by David M. Green of VHSRevue
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/davidthegreen
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Tom Brokaw joined Matt and Katie at the desk (shown at around the 12.5min mark, about 5 minutes into Seven’s coverage, just before they cut back to Nat) at 9.46am US East Coast time (11.46pm AEST).
Backtracking, it would mean that Seven’s coverage started at 11.41pm AEST.
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Without sp*mming this thread to much
I will be posting in a couple days the Adelaide Ch7 transmission which does actually interrupt Taking Footy (and they never return to the program)
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9:41am in NY after W Bush’s speech at the Emma E. Booker elementary school
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Here’s Ch7 Melbourne transmission from 10.40pm - 11.57pm (approx) on Sept 11, 2001.
Includes entire Talking Footy episode and breaking news of terrorist attacks
Footage courtesy of Davd M. Green of VHS Revue
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Finally we have a full tape of Channel 7 from the night of September 11th.
Great upload and find.
You could almost now sync the Australian networks together to give a complete timeline.
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SBS seems to be the only FTA network regularly noting the 9/11 anniversary and each year somehow manages to find more new documentaries about the events of the day . This year’s offerings include.
Rise And Fall: The World Trade Center
Sunday 3 September 8:30 PM
Tells the story of the architects and engineers who helped create and construct the World Trade Center Twin Towers.
Built as a symbol of American strength and ambition, the towers were considered the ultimate architectural project of the 20th century before their terrible end on 9/11.
9/11: Four Flights
Sunday 10 September 8:30 PM
Four flights - American 11, United 175, American 77, and United 93 - took off the morning of September 11, 2001, unaware of the life-changing events to follow and fate that would forever intertwine them.
Through the powerful and personal narratives from family and friends, along with air traffic controllers and others, the program tells the riveting and emotional human stories of those aboard each doomed jetliner.
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The US love it so there will forever be a supply of retellings.
Not sure “love it” is the right way to interpret the abundance of Sept 11 documentaries in the US 
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You know what I mean though. They pump out so many of them because it activates the patriotic gene among them, and it’s a non-controversial topic all get behind (north or south, R or D).