Shortly around 10:30 in Las Vegas there was a mass shooting. The incident occurred at a concert and was accross from the Mandaly Bay Resort on the Las Vegas Strip. Police have reported there were atleast 20 killed - including two off duty police and 100+ injured.
For most of the night NBC and MSNBC simulcast aspecial report produced by the latter, ABC was on air with their World News Tonight Team and later George Stephanopoulis , and CBS seemed to stick with CBS Overnight News.
Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie took over the special report duties from the MSNBC team at 5AM ET.
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: although my local ABC station isn't carrying it ABC is still on air with their special report. CBS appears to be off air.
The network special reports have replaced local morning newscasts on many affiliates.
Some affiliates are choosing to cover the story via their own morning newscasts, though. It's the middle of the night in Las Vegas, but the one affiliate there I can access (the ABC one) is on air with local coverage.
Last edited by mark on 2 October 2017 12:04pm - 3 times in total
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It's now 50 dead and 200 injured going by reports from the bbc.
Appears the entire country is live coast to coast with the Morning shows. NBC and CBS seemed to offer the brief opt out at the bottom of the hour
NBCs Joe Fryer was on the air in from his producer or photographers hotel room on the 38th floor of the Four Seasons which is a part of the Mandalay Bay Complex. HIs vantage point was looking out towards the concert with the Mandalay Bay sign to his right. I think the main Mandalay Bay tower is connected to the Four Seasons Tower.
We are still under lockdown at Four Seasons, which is part of Mandalay Bay tower. We are on 38th floor. This is our view of concert site. pic.twitter.com/7yMd5xOZcV
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: I should point out that many networks already had correspondents in Las Vegas with broadcast equipment and live trucks to follow the release of OJ Simpson from prison.
This horrible incident happened during breakfast for us in the UK. On the BBC News Channel, much of the Victoria Derbyshire programme was taken over by it. Business Live earlier had still run but started with the breaking news of it immediately after the business headlines. It is obviously the main focus of Newsroom Live right now.
EDIT: In fact saying it was the "main focus" was underplaying it - it is, as would be expected, almost the only news, with a few minutes on the Monarch airlines collapse and other news. The One O'Clock News ran as scheduled and normal mix of news. Afternoon shift - is more or less just this story on rolling format, with brief headlines/business headlines/weather at usual moments. Sky News (TV) was already rolling with the story when I switched over briefly at quarter to nine this morning and I assume has kept with it ever since.
Last edited by TVNewsviewer on 2 October 2017 4:30pm - 2 times in total
CNN International was the first channel on air with the horrific news at 1:49 am ET followed by MSNBC at 1:57am then a simulacasts on the NBC mothership, followed by FNC a 3am. (They were a bit slow off the mark, strangely for FNC.) TVNEWSER wrote this on how the other news networks and big US networks covered this story from the begining and the resources deployed.
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CNN International, simulcast on CNN, was on with first reports at 1:49 a.m. ET. MSNBC was on at 1:57 a.m. with anchor Dara Brown. NBC began a simulcast of MSNBC at 3 a.m. Fox News began coverage just before 3 a.m. with anchor Kelly Wright.
ABC News broke in with a special report at approximately 2:20 a.m. At 4:03 a.m. chief anchor George Stephanopoulos began anchoring and Robin Roberts joined at 7 a.m. NBC News’ special report began at 5 a.m. and has been anchored by Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie. They will stay on the air until 2 p.m. E.T.
CBS News has been on live since 5:30 a.m., and will remain on until at least 10 a.m.
Lester Holt will anchor NBC Nightly News from Las Vegas.
NBC News correspondents Joe Fryer and Steve Patterson are reporting from the ground and Chris Jansing, Miguel Almaguer and Catie Beck are traveling to Las Vegas. Correspondents Pete Williams, Peter Alexander and Tom Costello are joining from Washington, D.C.
For ABC chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross is contributing from New York. Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas is contributing from Washington. Senior White House correspondent Cecilia Vega reporting from the White House. Correspondents Matt Gutman and Linsey Davis are live in Las Vegas.
For CBS, Gayle King, Jeff Glor, and Bianna Golodrya are anchoring. CBS News correspondents John Blackstone and Carter Evans have been reporting live from Las Vegas. DeMarco Morgan and Anna Werner are enroute. Jeff Pegues and Margaret Brennan are reporting from Washington with CBS News senior national security analyst Fran Townsend and CBS News law enforcement analyst Paul Viollis contributing.
FNC correspondents Adam Housley, Jonathan Hunt, Trace Gallagher, Claudia Cowan and Lauren Blanchard reporting from Las Vega
KVVU, KLAS, KSNV, KTNV the major affiliates in Las Vegas are doing a brilliant job in disseminating information from the very beginning and are still in rolling-coverage right since 10:30 last night. Remember these stations typically get raked over those coals for their presentation misgivings, but are typically the front line stations for these major breaking stories and continue to be the primary entry feed points into the national news stream for many details of these types of stories. These are the stories that showcase the depth of reporting and the clear, calm, and typically seamless dissemination of information for the viewers as it their remit to operate under law. Without the stumbling and bumbling and deer int he headlights look when the autocue has nothing in it. Thats where local knowledge and insight play a great part in providing great coverage that can be not only informational but calming influence.
TVSPY has a rundown of how the stations covered this horrible story from the very beginning.
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Las Vegas affiliates have been wall to wall since news of the shooting on the Las Vegas strip broke around 10:30 p.m. pacific time Sunday night.
A quick check at TVEyes revealed KVVU was the first station to go live with breaking news. The Fox affiliate was in the middle of its 10 p.m. newscast.
Weekend anchor, Faith Tanner, was solo anchoring the show when they rolled the breaking news banner. She tossed to a live shot from the Las Vegas strip, near Mandalay Bay where the shooting occurred. She was eventually joined on the desk by weekend meteorologist-weekday reporter, Les Krifaton, who monitored the social media feeds while they waited for confirmation on details from police. The station stayed with the story throughout the night.
KSNV, the Sinclair-owned NBC affiliate, KLAS, the Nexstar CBS affiliate and KTNV, the ABC affiliate, all started their 11 p.m. newscasts early with breaking news.
Gerald Ramalho was solo anchoring KSNV’s 11 p.m. newscast. They broke in early and immediately tossed to reporter Nathan O’Neal, who was live from the strip where concertgoers were waiting for transportation to get out of the area. Ramalho provided viewers with breaking information from his own police sources as well, “my sources tell me that there were so many victims that officers were in fact transporting them in their own patrol cars.”
KLAS weekend anchor, John Langeler, started the 11 .p.m with breaking news and tossed to a live interview from two eyewitnesses. They told the reporter, “We heard about eight shots and thought they were fireworks, it was close to Mandalay Bay. The next set of shots, they took the talent off the stage and police told everyone to get down. We heard over 100 gunshots.”
Related: TVNewser | Network news coverage of the massacre in Las Vegas
KTNV broke into programming and started the 11 p.m. newscast at 10:53. Weekend anchor Christopher King tossed to reporter Joe Bartels, who was also live from the strip.
All of the stations used a variety of live shots, rooftop cameras and social media videos and images to cover the event. Non-stop coverage in the market on television and online, including live streams on Facebook live, has continued through the morning.
The now deceased gunman, who has been identified as Stephen Paddock, was perched on the 32 floor at the Mandalay Bay hotel opened fire on a country music festival Sunday night. More than 50 people were killed, over 400 injured.
Lester Holt is now live on the Strip on NBC during a majorly expanded edition of TODAY. 12:08 ET. (5:08 UK)
Most of the networks continue rolling coverage. Including the spanish language networks UNIVISION and NBCU's TELEMUNDO. FOX network is getting a special report from FNC with Shepherd Smith, while the FNC mothership has its pundit pontificate on its Outnumbered programme. (Bad idea in my opinion. I wouldnt want to see former MTV VJ - turned conservative, Kennedy talking about this. Im sure FNC 'journalists' love when they do this.)
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Newsnight got a random and not very good host in the studio covering this whilst Evan is at the Tory Conference. Also interestingly they're interviewing someone from Review Journal who've added their own giant DOG to the feed.