As the tenth anniversary of the atrocity nears, STV delves into the archive to discover how Scots responded to the terrorist attacks which changed the world.
Shereen Nanjiani brought Grampian and Scottish viewers a joint bulletin on the day; Scotland Today then brought viewers more developments in the following days.
I once got chatting to someone who claimed he was the person in the newsroom who first spotted the feed of the fire coming in to the BBC newsroom. One of the outside lines into news was/is permanently a feed from New York and it just appeared on there, presumably from ABC. It was just put to air before anyone really knew what had happened
I was in the gallery at LNN that lunchtime (we were visiting them to undertake some technical work that afternoon). CNN was on one of the monitors in an edit suite, the editor rushed in to say they were carrying pictures of a Cesna that had just crashed into one of the WTC towers. Someone punched it up on the main monitor stack. We watched as the second plane hit, at that point an LNN engineer retrained their roof top weather camera onto Canary Wharf, and stuck a 3 hr beta tape into record.
We never did the scheduled work that day, which is ironic, because their 15:30hrs bulletin, that we had been asked to work around, never made it to air of course !
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I was in the gallery at LNN that lunchtime (we were visiting them to undertake some technical work that afternoon). CNN was on one of the monitors in an edit suite, the editor rushed in to say they were carrying pictures of a Cesna that had just crashed into one of the WTC towers. Someone punched it up on the main monitor stack. We watched as the second plane hit, at that point an LNN engineer retrained their roof top weather camera onto Canary Wharf, and stuck a 3 hr beta tape into record.
Ha! That was me.. We'd just installed Sony's NewsBase I think and that Roof Camera was on loop record for weeks.
I was in the gallery at LNN that lunchtime (we were visiting them to undertake some technical work that afternoon). CNN was on one of the monitors in an edit suite, the editor rushed in to say they were carrying pictures of a Cesna that had just crashed into one of the WTC towers. Someone punched it up on the main monitor stack. We watched as the second plane hit, at that point an LNN engineer retrained their roof top weather camera onto Canary Wharf, and stuck a 3 hr beta tape into record.
Ha! That was me.. We'd just installed Sony's NewsBase I think and that Roof Camera was on loop record for weeks.
Ha! That was me.. We'd just installed Sony's NewsBase I think and that Roof Camera was on loop record for weeks.
How good was the view of Canary Wharf from the South Bank, it's quite a distance? Does LNN's rooftop camera still exist?
When 9/11 happened there were at least 2 or 3 live shots of the towers on TV within minutes of the first impact, that's not something that would happen for a similar event here unless it was very near to a TV facility. For example when the Camden Market fire happened a few years ago there was a live shot but that was only because AP is across the road and stuck a camera out of the window!
I remember thinking when that compilation went out on 11.09.02 that they had cheated somewhat - they've basically used the soundtrack of News 24 that afternoon and edited a huge variety of shots that emerged afterwards against it, so it's not really representative of what went out that afternoon which was by and large the same static shot of the twin towers. I remember it being commented at the time that ITN did a far better job on the afternoon itself, they of course had Kirsty Young on air talking to her husband in New York. Although to News 24's credit they were far superior to what BBC World were doing. That's been on You Tube for some time and they take ages to work out that a second plane had hit, that the towers had collapsed, etc. Of course today I'd expect the two services would join fairly quick.
On another note - anyone notice the "end of part 1/part 2" captions half way through? I remember at that time Choice were inserting a promo break into Liquid News, a ridiuclous thing to do on a BBC channel in a half hour show, surely they didn't do it in this programme? The chillout music all the way through isn't great either.
Completely ridiculous as it might sound, I suspect the chillout music is there to make sure viewers know they're not watching a live news broadcast.
It was fascinating viewing, I was overseas at the time and have seen very little domestic UK coverage before, I agree it was handled a lot better than BBC World. In one of the few moments it shows the actual News 24 pictures, when Blair was giving the TUC speech, I was surprised by how tiny the boxes for the split-screen pictures were back then, although perhaps that's accentuated by the lack of a lower third.
I made a note of the schedules on 11th Sept 2001, I knew they would come in useful.
ITV1
6:00am GMTV
9:25am Watch to Win; Trisha
10:30am This Morning
12:30pm ITV Lunchtime News
1:05pm Regional Variations
1:35pm The Biggest Game in Town
2:05pm Crossroads (Part 1 only)
2:15pm ITV News Special with Kirsty Young and later joined by Dermot Murnaghan
(CITV, The People Versus and Crossroads were moved to ITV2)
6:00pm ITV Evening News with Kirsty Young and Trevor McDonald
(including 6:20-6:30 regional news)
7:00pm Emmerdale
7:30pm ITV News Special with Kirsty Young
8:00pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
9:00pm ITV News Special with Trevor McDonald
10:30pm Regional News (was brought forward from 11:20)
10:40pm Champions League Highlights
11:40pm Tackling the Dragon
12:05am The Racing Arrows (these two possibly regional variations?)
12:35am ITV News Special with Katie Derham
1:00am NBC News
5:30am ITV Morning News
BBC1
6:00am Breakfast
9:00am Kilroy; BBC News
10:00am House Call; BBC News
11:00am Trading Up
11:30am Bargain Hunt; BBC News
12:00pm Wipeout
12:30pm Doctors
1:00pm BBC One O'Clock News
1:45pm Neighbours
2:10pm BBC News 24
(with John Nicolson and Valerie Sanderson then from 4pm Peter Dobbie & Jane Hill then from 5pm Gavin Estler and Jane Hill)
(CBBC ONE and Neighbours aired on BBC TWO)
6:00pm BBC Six O'Clock News with Huw Edwards
6:35pm Regional News
6:40pm BBC News 24
(with Gavin Estler & Jane Hill then from 7pm Huw Edwards and Jane Hill)
7:30pm EastEnders
8:00pm Changing Rooms
(BBC News 24 aired on BBC TWO 7:30-8:30)
8:30pm BBC News Special: America under Siege with David Dimbleby
9:30pm BBC News 24 (with Gavin Estler and Carrie Gracie)
10:00pm BBC Ten O'Clock News with Peter Sissons
10:45pm Regional News
10:55pm Boss Women
11:40pm BBC News 24 (initially with Peter Dobbie and Carrie Gracie)
:-(
A former member
does this mean only SKY news and BBC news 24 broadcast the second plane hitting the tower "Live"?
Yes. News broadcasters won't have seen the first plane hit so up until the second plane hit, which was in view of the cameras which were now all pointing at the WTC, it wasn't a major news story, a fire in the WTC wouldn't have caused coverage on normal channels here.
The second plane hit at 2:03pm here which is probably why Crossroads started at 2:05pm as planned.
I'd never actually seen that original News 24 coverage, Marcus. Only now, ten years on, do I realise that it was actually John Terrett, Valerie Sanderson and John Nicolson breaking the story.