[James2001]

I’m not sure if all five channels covered 9/11 live? Although it is possible as BBC2 were supposed to be showing the TUC conference so could have broken away to show live pictures.

They did, because I remember it from the time, I'd just got back from school and was wanting to watch the Birds of a Feather repeats BBC1 were running at the time, and it wasn't on, and flipping through the other channels just to see news- took a while for me to absorb what the news was. There might not have been a long period of time where the news was on all 5 channels (I think it fell back to just BBC1 and ITV after a while), but it was on all 5 for a period.

I have a vague memory that the TUC conference might have been suspended that day because of the events. I'm sure I remember seeing the presenters at the venue discussing what was happening in America.