9/11 Anniversary Coverage

There was the ITN News Channel too at the time, I've not idea if they showed it live

The News 24 coverage is far better than the shocking BBC World efforts. Can't believe they didn't just put that poor woman out of her misery and put the excellent News 24 team out on World.

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As long as it wasn't too windy it was okay, you got the whole cluster of buildings filling about half the shot.
When LNN was disbanded control of the camera was passed to ITN, but the pan/tilt head was getting towards the end of its life at that point. I saw it used occasionally in ITN produced bulletins with over exposed shots and the appalling white balance suggesting they had no control over it.
With no real owner to maintain it it probably just stopped working!

Sky News has put a page up on the website of the first four hours of their 9/11 footage from 10 years ago:
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16066538

Then somebody came along and wrote on the comments feed that the video wasn't the original output in the first place. Hmm.

I seem to remember from previous occasions when they've shown clips that they've had to recreate the captions, it's unlikely they'd have a decent copy of the full captioned off-air, if any copy at all

How common is it for BBC and Sky just to record the Clean feeds coming in from places: In this case the USA? I have to ask where along the lines do there slip in the On screens captions? DO There do this to make sure the recorded copy is pure and clean?

I haven't time to watch the whole thing, but if anyone does, could they confirm the urban myth of Burley saying "the entire eastern seaboard has been destroyed"

The most obvious changes are that the original broadcast didn't have the modern Sky News logo in the top right corner, it had a clock on the bottom left and it wasn't cropped to 16:9 or whatever shape it is on the website. This is one of the better attempts at showing what was broadcast on that day though. Previously they have shown what appears to be the broadcast version but zoomed in, I would guess to remove some kind of burnt in VT clock. This was shown on the red button at some point. I actually recorded Sky News on 11th September 2001 from 9am to late in the evening.

I uploaded parts of that tape to YouTube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=449l-QO93JU

Playing the version I uploaded next to the version on the Sky News website reveals that the recreated captions don't always appear at the same time as originally broadcast. There are some bits of the coverage where you can see the Fox News lower third graphics, but these were covered by Sky's own lower third graphics when broadcast live in 2001.



I can't claim to have watched the whole thing either but I remember checking the two (IIRC) correctly ad breaks and the top of the hours because the quote starts something like "If you are just joining us..." which sounds like something that might be said at these times. I did not hear Burley use the famous quote that is often attributed to her.

I've only viewed parts of the second clip, but one of the portions contained characteristic tact: sharply interrupting an interviewee, she comes out with something along the lines of "Canary Wharf Tower... one of the tallest structures in Europe... Canary Wharf Tower, has been hij... evacuated".

I know you've got to bear in mind the intensity and high emotions of the day but bloody hell, she took an age to say "evacuated", rather than "hit", which the unnecessarily elongated build up certainly seemed to anticipate. My stomach dropped even with the knowledge she couldn't possibly be about to say what it sounded like she was.

Who is that with Kay? I recognise his voice but I just can't place it.

Jeremy Thompson, ain't it?

Chris Rogers was on with Burley when the news broke. You can hear Burley saying 'shhhh' when he dares speak. He says there is an explosion while Burley is still waiting to see the [second] plane appear from behind the tower it has clearly just crashed in to.

He must have been dropped as soon as Thompson arrived.