03-09-2022, 05:15 PM
(03-09-2022, 10:58 AM)James2001 Wrote:(03-09-2022, 12:17 AM)TWO ident Wrote: 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.
Yeah when I came home from school (a little later as mum went to the car wash first) it was definitely on 4 channels, with BBC2 showing CBBC by that point I think (around 3.50) and ITN with different feeds on ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 (Channel 5 IIRC was the ITN News Channel feed). ITN did a remarkable job that day providing different coverage to its various outlets. This continued for quite a while IIRC.
Another thing that stands out is that no-one mentioned it at school. Now the news would be everywhere in minutes. Truly a different world.