[Stooky Bill]

I do wonder where, if anywhere, that was actually being shown at the time. I know it was a syndicated show, and I don't fully understand how that works over there, but presumably every station affiliated with a network would already have been in a special report (aside of course from the New York ones doing their own coverage).

As the description says, the uploader is sure it did air on some independent stations not affiliated to the big four networks. 

If they're independent they presumably only normally have local news provision, so might have extended their morning bulletins, if they had one. 

But of course it's worth remembering that at 9am eastern time (which was 2pm here) it wasn't that long since the first news of the incident took place, and it was still being treated as an accident, albeit a big one. As you see Regis mentions it and then moves on to talk about the weather. 

It was only at 9:03 that it became the massive event we know it as now. 

As you can see in the second video theres a caption 'all live stations switching to WABC TV' which is the ABC station in New York, so that's presumably what they ended up taking

I'm sure some independent stations will have arranged to carry the news service of their choice. On the day it was a bit of a free for all, every one was sharing everyone's pictures and simulcasting each other