It was probably Newsworld International, which was owned by the CBC. It eventually became AJA, but not before Al Gore ran it as Current TV.
Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 9:57 PM Chris Neuman <ch...@neuman.ca> wrote: > My wife and I moved from Toronto to Chicago about 10 days before September > 11. We were staying with a friend in Lincoln Park while we waited for our > place to be ready in Evanston and we’re occupying he second bedroom with a > view of the El tracks just south of Belmont. What woke us up first was the > relative absence of trains, then our host knocking and saying we should get > up and get to the TV. We watched like most people, transfixed, keenly aware > that we had just become foreigners, immigrants (Though I don’t pretend to > assume what we experienced was anything like our racialized friends). I > never saw so many flags on front steps in the space of 12 hours. And the > three Canadians huddled in a walk up on Bissell Street were delighted to > find a channel that carried the CBC coverage. The dulcet tones of Peter > Mansbridge and the less dulcet tones of PM Jean Chrétien were a balm in > those first raw hours. > > Sorry, not “what we’re you watching” but as I recall the channel > simulcasting CBC involved Al Gore — if memory serves it eventually became > Al Jazeera US, maybe? > > Chris > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 20:01 Ben Scripps <b...@benscripps.com> wrote: > >> I was in middle school English when Challenger happened; they ended up >> sending us home early that day. >> >> Like Kevin, I slept through the first couple of hours of 9/11. When I >> woke up around 11, I had a breathless message from a friend telling me to >> turn on the TV because something terrible had happened. Once the tube >> warmed up, whatever channel I was on was showing the Pentagon, and as I >> stepped up through the channels to get to my station, each channel along >> the way happened to be either on the Pentagon or in-studio anchors, leaving >> me to think “Well, a plane crashing into the Pentagon certainly is tragic, >> but it’s not that big a deal." Then I hit the Home Shopping Channel and >> saw they’d shut down and knew there must be more than what I’d seen. One >> of the weirdest days I’ve ever had at work. >> >> And Stan, I got the reference as soon as I saw “Texxon”. Still one of my >> favorite bits of SNL of all time. >> >> On Jul 23, 2020, at 3:41 PM, Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> As I look back, I wasn’t watching TV during any of the big moments. >> >> Challenger disaster: I was in Catholic school. We were in the habit of >> watching shuttle launches in the classroom to the point where it had become >> monotonous, so we didn’t even watch it live. It wasn’t until the principal >> came into the classroom and told the teacher the turn on the TV that we saw >> it replayed. However, a camera crew from KABC 7 went to my sister’s high >> school to get reaction from young people. If anybody has that videotape, >> please send it my way. >> >> 9/11: I was working a graveyard shift at a Kinkos-like copy store and had >> gotten home from work. Maybe an hour after I fell asleep, a friend called >> me and asked if I was watching. I asked what channel, and he replied “Every >> channel... we are at war.” >> >> Colombia disaster: I was in the Peace Corps in an Internet cafe in >> Kazakhstan. There was undoubtedly a mix of over-bass techno music playing >> overhead. One stranger walked over to me and patted me on the shoulder and >> said “I’m sorry” in Russian. A few seconds later another stranger did the >> same. I didn’t even know why they were offering condolences at that moment. >> >> Addendum: I recently bought and watched an episode of Kojak on the iTunes >> Store, specifically because the episode was originally broadcast the exact >> day and year I was born. If you ever get the chance, do some research and >> find media from your actual date of birth. There is no way anything >> remotely resembling that hour of television could be broadcast today. The >> treatment of women, the portrayals of minorities and drug use... oh my. >> >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 11:29 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < >> tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >>> Aug 8th 1974, around 9:00pm east... "The Mac Davis Show," whose star was >>> riding the *Billboard* charts at the time, got its ending cut off when >>> on came whichever anchor (I'm guessing Reasoner) ready to throw it to the >>> White House, where President Nixon would shortly announce his resignation. >>> (I don't recall being able to watch the moon landing live.) >>> >>> B >>> >>> daniel anderson, today (7/23): >>> >>>> I was watching the World Series in 1989 when the Earthquake happened. I >>>> can still remember hearing Al Michaels say "I'll tell you what, we're >>>> having an earth-" before the feed cut out. 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