World Trade Centre

Exactly,I said 'It's been a week now'

You also said 'ATM' - an acronym for 'At The Moment'!

Yes,becuase when I originally posted it the Crossroads ad-break was going on. Since it had then been a week since the disaster then I said 'It's the crossroads ad break ATM (At the moment)

I know exactly what you are on about!

Btw did they jump an episode of crossroads or just repeat the one that they only showed half of?

They showed a recap before the title sequence of the scheduled episode. You needed ITV2 to see the interrupted episode, which was on the normal time, 5.30pm, but on ITV2, not ITV1. This means Channel Television viewers lost out.

And on CNNI
one thing I noticed, although on CNNI as the time goes on more and more content is coming from CNNI instead of the CNN US fead but when CNNI is retransmiting CNN US feed it uses the CNNI logo and the bar is without the US flag and CNNI's slogan is 'attack on war' which looks odd when they do a full screen graphic with main points on it, but with the US catch-word/slogan type thing says'America's New War which looks totally odd. Why not just stick with the US graphics, madnees!

It jumped.

I thought that this treatment of Crossroads was poor, and have told ITV Network Centre so, particuarly as ITV1 happily cut off coverage of the retalliations starting to show Pop Idol of all things.

I thought they'd have moved Pop Idol to midweek, but they didn't. You're right, they should've stayed with ITN for another hour.

/Operation Cleanup/

Going back to this old topic, I haven't had the chance to say what the coverage was like here in the Phillippines...

I was watching Studio 23, the main English-language station at the time, and the first I heard of what happened was at about 9:10pm (it's 12 hours ahead of New York time here) when they put up a scrolling caption at the bottom of the screen saying something along the lines of '2 PLANES HAVE HIT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK, A NEWS CENTRAL SPECIAL REPORT FOLLOWS'. News Central is Studio 23's main news show which normally goes out at 10pm and has suffered quite a bit of a budget cut lately. They waited until the show which was on finished at 9:30 to do thier coverage, and I'm not sure if it lasted more than an hour. Anyway, personally as soon as I saw that I turned on CNN and told everyone in the building about it. It was just as Bush was giving his speech, which was followed by those first reports of a fire in the Pentagon.

I kept watching CNN and BBC World all night. In the morning the cable company put on a feed of CBS News, which changed to Fox News after a couple of days. CBS News seemed high quality but looked just like their normal news programmes. It was very in-depth with not much breaking news or live events. Fox News is very opinionated and tabloid as I'm sure most people on the forum already know, but they're good for breaking the news quickly and it was great to see Sky News on there for a few of afternoons (overnight in the US). It was my first chance to see Sky News in a long time, I get what people mean about the huge graphics but I like the new studio and was great to see the old Sky News style again. Incidentally, after the first time of showing it, Fox News kept breaking away during the sports news, which did seem to go on forever (at least 10 mins?).

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Anyway, back to the point of this post.. The only news channel here is ANC, the ABS-CBN News Channel (ABS-CBN is the biggest broadcaster here and also owns Studio 23). When I checked on them, they were doing overnight coverage with 2 presenters in the studio commenting over Reuters pictures (I didn't see any live shots, though) and occasionally doing phone interviews with people from the Philippine Embassy in the US. This is because no news orgs here have any full-time foreign correspondents.

None of the other channels seemed to do anything, with the exception of GMA-7, which is the local affiliate for CNN's World Report, so they showed CNN all night from around midnight. In the morning there was quite a good extended breakfast programme, the best work by any of the local channels. It actually took it as seriously as it should have been.

The morning after, only a few papers actually led on it! But those that did sold out quickly, so after that the others realised the importance of the story, and there's been pretty much nothing else on the front pages ever since. In the last few weeks the TV stations have been guilty of sensationalising the story a great deal. There have been alot of Anthrax scares here and a lot of reporting of the propaganda surrounding the air strikes which CNN and the BBC have been more careful about. It's led to some misunderstanding about what's going on.

But to be fair, with the limited resources they have, news organisations here have done a fairly good job once they cought up with the story. But on the night itself, awful.

Briefly, as for the other foreign channels on cable here, DW-TV went to ARD-1, Phoneix (Star TV's Korean channel) had a dubbed Fox News, BS-1 (a Japanese station which for a part of the day shows foreign news dubbed in Japanese, including 15 mins of the BBC News at 10) showed ABC News, also dubbed, and pretty much everyone else had CNN.

For anyone who wants pictures of the US network's coverage, I've just found this site, which is just pictures.

And finally (I promise!) one last thing is that BBC World should definately have shared resources with News 24, like someone said. It would have meant that both UK and International audiences would have had access to the right interviews and correspondents at the right times. I don't agree with the arguement about N24 having a UK perspective, because once it would be time for them to start talking about UK issues, it'd probably be time for World to go back to it's own coverage.

Actually, this site is much much better.. clips from all over the world