Nixon resigns: one of the networks. The evening edition of the New York Post had a front page that said “Nixon Resigns Tonight” so we were well prepared. My brother tried to record it from the tv speaker with a portable tape recorder.
1977 NYC blackout: I was watching a CPO Sharkey rerun when the lights went out on Long Island too. After a couple of hours we got electricity back and the local cable company pulled in network affiliates from Connecticut until the NYC stations came back online Miracle on Ice: watching the game at home, like everyone else Challenger: I was at work at a bank branch. We pulled our TV from the break room to the lobby so that we could watch while working. 1989 Earthquake: watching the game. O.J. Simpson chase: we were at a bar after work watching the Knicks in the NBA playoffs when the TVs switched to a split screen 9/11/01: working from home that day, my text pager (remember those?) got a CNN alert about a small plane hitting the WTC. I turned on the TV in time to see the second plane hit. The company that I was working for first sent home all employees nationwide who were in tall buildings. A couple of hours later everything got shut down. Somewhere, I’ve saved all of the CNN text alerts from that day, some of which were incorrect. Up until recently a friend and I would send a text to each other if there was a major news event. It was one of: “Have you seen the footage?” “Brought to you by Texxon” “John David Stubbs” All of these are shorthand for the 1983 “Murder of Buckwheat” SNL episode, which through the beginning of 2020 was a fairly accurate parody of how TV news covers major news stories. You can draw a direct parallel between that series of sketches and the Kobe Bryant coverage from February. (Doesn’t that seem like a million years ago?) -Stan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a9d656ee-cead-4e3e-9147-08d8bf860737o%40googlegroups.com.
