Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[Jim Ellwanger]

> On Sep 6, 2020, at 10:04 AM, 'Eddie Anderson' via TVorNotTV 
>  wrote:
> 
> Doug Eastick wrote:
>> Diana death -- I don't remember the specifics of when the
>> news broke, but I recall Kevin Newman (formerly of Canadian
>> nets) on ABC covering it that evening.
> 
> 1) IIRC, that night I saw two breaking news reports which interrupted 
> programs.  The first occurred during prime time.  It reported that Diana had 
> been in a car accident.
> 
> The second occurred during snl.  It reported that she had died.
> 
> Though I don't remember for sure, I assume that both of the programs that 
> were interrupted were reruns.

I'll confirm that TV programming that night was reruns -- it was the Saturday 
of Labor Day weekend

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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[stannc]

I was sitting at Charlotte Motor Speedway on the same day in 2001. The race was 
about to start and it was an NBC race. 
The jumbo screen at the track switched to a live feed of NBC News Special 
Report. 

-Stan 

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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[daniel anderson]

I remember that Directtv used the backhaul feeds on the AFC games that day 
until President Bush was done speaking- believe they waited till Dan Rather 
did the wrap up before switching back to  the regular network feeds. Up 
till Obama did his address about Newtown, it was the last time a NFL game 
was preempted for breaking news s far as i know.
On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 9:30:15 AM UTC-4, Tom Wolper wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:17 PM stannc > 
> wrote:
>
>> G-E-C is also the pleasant sound that you hear when you try to shoplift 
>> at Lowe’s Home Improvement.
>>
>
> I'll take your word for that.
>
> Some years ago I listened to all the extant 300+ episodes of Dragnet from 
> NBC Radio. The recording always ended with the NBC chimes and once an 
> announcer said, "Three chimes mean good times."
>
> Going back to the question that started this thread, I have been reading 
> along and trying to remember what I was watching when a major event 
> happened. Not the event but the show and I can't think of any. I think 
> network interruptions are rarer in the cable news era and especially during 
> prime time since newsworthy stuff tends to happen during business hours. I 
> wasn't watching TV when the 9/11 attacks happened and I wasn't watching 
> when the Challenger exploded. The closest I can think of is I was sitting 
> in Heinz Field at a Steelers game in 2001 when they stopped the game and 
> President Bush came on the jumbotron to announce he was ordering US forces 
> to Afghanistan.
>

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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[Tom Wolper]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:17 PM stannc  wrote:

> G-E-C is also the pleasant sound that you hear when you try to shoplift at
> Lowe’s Home Improvement.
>

I'll take your word for that.

Some years ago I listened to all the extant 300+ episodes of Dragnet from
NBC Radio. The recording always ended with the NBC chimes and once an
announcer said, "Three chimes mean good times."

Going back to the question that started this thread, I have been reading
along and trying to remember what I was watching when a major event
happened. Not the event but the show and I can't think of any. I think
network interruptions are rarer in the cable news era and especially during
prime time since newsworthy stuff tends to happen during business hours. I
wasn't watching TV when the 9/11 attacks happened and I wasn't watching
when the Challenger exploded. The closest I can think of is I was sitting
in Heinz Field at a Steelers game in 2001 when they stopped the game and
President Bush came on the jumbotron to announce he was ordering US forces
to Afghanistan.

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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[stannc]

G-E-C is also the pleasant sound that you hear when you try to shoplift at 
Lowe’s Home Improvement. 

-Stan 

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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

['Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV]

Now *that* story *is* covered on the nbcchimes site...

Kevin M, to Jim Ellwanger and stannc, today (7/28):

>
> My understanding is that in the early days of the chimes, they had a few 
>> different chime tunes used for different purposes, and the four-chime 
>> version essentially meant, "hey, network or station employees, there's some 
>> big news happening, so come in to the office or at least call in."
>
>
> My understanding as a former Page is the reason the chimes were often 
> inconsistent is because they were done live by different people throughout 
> the broadcast day. 
>
>>
>>
>> The familiar three-chime version was originally a signal that meant, 
>> "attention affiliates, it's time for a station break." Since it was heard 
>> after every program, usually right after an announcer said, "This is the 
>> National Broadcasting Company," it quickly turned into an effective audio 
>> trademark for the network.
>>
>> (The notes are "G-E-C," but it's an urban legend that it has any relation 
>> to the General Electric Corporation -- it just happens to be a reasonably 
>> pleasant-sounding C-major arpeggio.)
>
>
> Yeah, the GEC connection to GE is corporate ret-conning 
>
>
B

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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[Kevin M.]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:51 AM Jim Ellwanger 
wrote:

> My understanding is that in the early days of the chimes, they had a few
> different chime tunes used for different purposes, and the four-chime
> version essentially meant, "hey, network or station employees, there's some
> big news happening, so come in to the office or at least call in."


My understanding as a former Page is the reason the chimes were often
inconsistent is because they were done live by different people throughout
the broadcast day.

>
>
> The familiar three-chime version was originally a signal that meant,
> "attention affiliates, it's time for a station break." Since it was heard
> after every program, usually right after an announcer said, "This is the
> National Broadcasting Company," it quickly turned into an effective audio
> trademark for the network.
>
> (The notes are "G-E-C," but it's an urban legend that it has any relation
> to the General Electric Corporation -- it just happens to be a reasonably
> pleasant-sounding C-major arpeggio.)


Yeah, the GEC connection to GE is corporate ret-conning


>
>
> > On Jul 28, 2020, at 11:19 AM, stannc  wrote:
> >
> > The clips that I’ve found don’t agree on the specifics, but during World
> War II a fourth chime was used. Sometimes it’s a second sustained C, one
> clip has it as a different higher note.
> >
> > -Stan
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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[Jim Ellwanger]

My understanding is that in the early days of the chimes, they had a few 
different chime tunes used for different purposes, and the four-chime version 
essentially meant, "hey, network or station employees, there's some big news 
happening, so come in to the office or at least call in."

The familiar three-chime version was originally a signal that meant, "attention 
affiliates, it's time for a station break." Since it was heard after every 
program, usually right after an announcer said, "This is the National 
Broadcasting Company," it quickly turned into an effective audio trademark for 
the network.

(The notes are "G-E-C," but it's an urban legend that it has any relation to 
the General Electric Corporation -- it just happens to be a reasonably 
pleasant-sounding C-major arpeggio.)


> On Jul 28, 2020, at 11:19 AM, stannc  wrote:
> 
> The clips that I’ve found don’t agree on the specifics, but during World War 
> II a fourth chime was used. Sometimes it’s a second sustained C, one clip has 
> it as a different higher note. 
> 
> -Stan
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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

['bobjersey' via TVorNotTV]

They used that format for this S.R. on the double-murder conviction of Scott 
Peterson in 2004... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CugARmyXt8 (link)

Jim Ellwanger, tonight (7/27):
> I believe Daniel is specifically referring to the use of the chimes
> as part of the “NBC News Special Report” intro — for example, at the
> 5-second mark here, after the countdown:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEX6Wr9Iz00


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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[Jim Ellwanger]

I believe Daniel is specifically referring to the use of the chimes as part of 
the “NBC News Special Report” intro — for example, at the 5-second mark here, 
after the countdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEX6Wr9Iz00


> On Jul 27, 2020, at 5:02 PM, 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV 
>  wrote:
> 
> Since the company's radio-only days, though the exact first date of use is in 
> dispute... http://www.nbcchimes.info/nbcorigin.php 
>  (link)
> 
> daniel anderson, today (7/27):
> I still remember the Newtown school shooting, because i was watching Days of 
> Our Lives(soap) when the so called "chimes of doom" sounded. Same thing with 
> the Virginia Tech shooting too. I've always wondered how long those chimes 
> have been used anyway? 
> 
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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[Jim Ellwanger]

> On Jul 27, 2020, at 9:14 AM, Kevin M.  wrote:
> 
> 
> In one of his autobiographies, Sherwood Schwartz wrote about filming the 
> pilot episode of Gilligan’s Island the day JFK was shot. Not the best day for 
> slapstick comedy. 

The shot of the Minnow leaving the harbor in the first-season opening titles 
was shot in Honolulu a couple days after the assassination -- there's a flag at 
half-mast that's briefly visible in the background. (A year later, they reshot 
the opening in color for the second season, but that time they only traveled as 
far as Long Beach, California.)

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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[Jim Ellwanger]

Unlike the actors, the organist would have been wearing a headset to hear the 
communication from the control room (where, for a live production, there would 
have been an "air" monitor to show what was actually being broadcast).


> On Jul 27, 2020, at 8:33 AM, daniel anderson  
> wrote:
> 
> Speaking of jFK, i've read about that the soap was As The World Turns, 
> because Helen Wagner once said that she didn't know that something was wrong 
> until she left the set and Charles Paul who was playing the organ told her 
> that Kennedy had been shot. I'm guessing he heard Cronkite's announcements, 
> but the cast didn't.
> 
> On Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 8:13:47 PM UTC-4, daniel anderson wrote:
> 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. I remember ABC airing something else for a 
> few minutes, before Ted Koppel came on form Washington(where he was hosting 
> Nightline).
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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[daniel anderson]

Because he was killed. Likely because she had voted for him in 60.

I was heartbroken myself when 9/11 took place, because it disrupted our 
normal way of living.
On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 11:15:28 AM UTC-4, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 8:08 AM daniel anderson  > wrote:
>
>> My grandmother was watching some soap opera when JFK was shot. When 
>> Cronkite announced JFK's death, she was heartbroken. 
>>
>
> Heartbroken because he was shot, or heartbroken because they interrupted 
> her stories? My grandma loved her stories.
>
>
>
>> On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 11:39:46 AM UTC-4, PGage wrote:
>>>
>>> Perhaps my earliest memory like this was watching Bobby Kennedy get 
>>> murdered. I was precociously interested in politics, and my mother took me 
>>> to hear all of the Democratic nominees for president that year. She was a 
>>> Eugene McCarthy girl, and the first we saw but then we went to see Bobby 
>>> speak, a week or two later and I was mesmerized. I could decode his speech 
>>> enough to get his opposition to the war, and support for racial and 
>>> economic justice, but his charisma really got through to me, and the crowd 
>>> at the college campus where my dad taught was going wild. I got the chance 
>>> to shake his hand, and declared myself a Bobby man to my mother on the way 
>>> home, as we had a satisfying debate. She of course was old enough to 
>>> remember the old RFK, who had been a “Red-Baiter” and his brother’s son of 
>>> a bitch, and she never trusted him.
>>>
>>> The night of the California primary she let me stay up to watch the 
>>> results. I remember staying awake long enough to see that Bobby had won, 
>>> then fell asleep during his speech. I was awakened shortly after by the 
>>> sound of my mother’s screams and then crying, saying “not again” over and 
>>> over, as he was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador hotel. I was 
>>> heartbroken and inconsolable.
>>>
>>> I am just old enough to remember where I was when his brother was shot, 
>>> but we heard that announcement live on the radio, not TV, on the way to 
>>> taking me to the doctor. My mother pulling over to the side of the San 
>>> Diego freeway to cry, and my grandmother in the back seat screaming 
>>> (extremely uncharacteristically, as she was very refined): “God Dammit! God 
>>> Dammit! I knew he shouldn’t have gone down there!”
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:13 PM daniel anderson  
>>> wrote:
>>>
 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. I remember ABC airing something 
 else for a few minutes, before Ted Koppel came on form Washington(where he 
 was hosting Nightline).

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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[Kevin M.]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 8:08 AM daniel anderson <
danielanderson2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> My grandmother was watching some soap opera when JFK was shot. When
> Cronkite announced JFK's death, she was heartbroken.
>

Heartbroken because he was shot, or heartbroken because they interrupted
her stories? My grandma loved her stories.



> On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 11:39:46 AM UTC-4, PGage wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps my earliest memory like this was watching Bobby Kennedy get
>> murdered. I was precociously interested in politics, and my mother took me
>> to hear all of the Democratic nominees for president that year. She was a
>> Eugene McCarthy girl, and the first we saw but then we went to see Bobby
>> speak, a week or two later and I was mesmerized. I could decode his speech
>> enough to get his opposition to the war, and support for racial and
>> economic justice, but his charisma really got through to me, and the crowd
>> at the college campus where my dad taught was going wild. I got the chance
>> to shake his hand, and declared myself a Bobby man to my mother on the way
>> home, as we had a satisfying debate. She of course was old enough to
>> remember the old RFK, who had been a “Red-Baiter” and his brother’s son of
>> a bitch, and she never trusted him.
>>
>> The night of the California primary she let me stay up to watch the
>> results. I remember staying awake long enough to see that Bobby had won,
>> then fell asleep during his speech. I was awakened shortly after by the
>> sound of my mother’s screams and then crying, saying “not again” over and
>> over, as he was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador hotel. I was
>> heartbroken and inconsolable.
>>
>> I am just old enough to remember where I was when his brother was shot,
>> but we heard that announcement live on the radio, not TV, on the way to
>> taking me to the doctor. My mother pulling over to the side of the San
>> Diego freeway to cry, and my grandmother in the back seat screaming
>> (extremely uncharacteristically, as she was very refined): “God Dammit! God
>> Dammit! I knew he shouldn’t have gone down there!”
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:13 PM daniel anderson 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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. I remember ABC airing something
>>> else for a few minutes, before Ted Koppel came on form Washington(where he
>>> was hosting Nightline).
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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[daniel anderson]

My grandmother was watching some soap opera when JFK was shot. When 
Cronkite announced JFK's death, she was heartbroken. 

On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 11:39:46 AM UTC-4, PGage wrote:
>
> Perhaps my earliest memory like this was watching Bobby Kennedy get 
> murdered. I was precociously interested in politics, and my mother took me 
> to hear all of the Democratic nominees for president that year. She was a 
> Eugene McCarthy girl, and the first we saw but then we went to see Bobby 
> speak, a week or two later and I was mesmerized. I could decode his speech 
> enough to get his opposition to the war, and support for racial and 
> economic justice, but his charisma really got through to me, and the crowd 
> at the college campus where my dad taught was going wild. I got the chance 
> to shake his hand, and declared myself a Bobby man to my mother on the way 
> home, as we had a satisfying debate. She of course was old enough to 
> remember the old RFK, who had been a “Red-Baiter” and his brother’s son of 
> a bitch, and she never trusted him.
>
> The night of the California primary she let me stay up to watch the 
> results. I remember staying awake long enough to see that Bobby had won, 
> then fell asleep during his speech. I was awakened shortly after by the 
> sound of my mother’s screams and then crying, saying “not again” over and 
> over, as he was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador hotel. I was 
> heartbroken and inconsolable.
>
> I am just old enough to remember where I was when his brother was shot, 
> but we heard that announcement live on the radio, not TV, on the way to 
> taking me to the doctor. My mother pulling over to the side of the San 
> Diego freeway to cry, and my grandmother in the back seat screaming 
> (extremely uncharacteristically, as she was very refined): “God Dammit! God 
> Dammit! I knew he shouldn’t have gone down there!”
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:13 PM daniel anderson  > wrote:
>
>> 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. I remember ABC airing something 
>> else for a few minutes, before Ted Koppel came on form Washington(where he 
>> was hosting Nightline).
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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[PGage]

Perhaps my earliest memory like this was watching Bobby Kennedy get
murdered. I was precociously interested in politics, and my mother took me
to hear all of the Democratic nominees for president that year. She was a
Eugene McCarthy girl, and the first we saw but then we went to see Bobby
speak, a week or two later and I was mesmerized. I could decode his speech
enough to get his opposition to the war, and support for racial and
economic justice, but his charisma really got through to me, and the crowd
at the college campus where my dad taught was going wild. I got the chance
to shake his hand, and declared myself a Bobby man to my mother on the way
home, as we had a satisfying debate. She of course was old enough to
remember the old RFK, who had been a “Red-Baiter” and his brother’s son of
a bitch, and she never trusted him.

The night of the California primary she let me stay up to watch the
results. I remember staying awake long enough to see that Bobby had won,
then fell asleep during his speech. I was awakened shortly after by the
sound of my mother’s screams and then crying, saying “not again” over and
over, as he was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador hotel. I was
heartbroken and inconsolable.

I am just old enough to remember where I was when his brother was shot, but
we heard that announcement live on the radio, not TV, on the way to taking
me to the doctor. My mother pulling over to the side of the San Diego
freeway to cry, and my grandmother in the back seat screaming (extremely
uncharacteristically, as she was very refined): “God Dammit! God Dammit! I
knew he shouldn’t have gone down there!”

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:13 PM daniel anderson <
danielanderson2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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. I remember ABC airing something
> else for a few minutes, before Ted Koppel came on form Washington(where he
> was hosting Nightline).
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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[Mark Jeffries]

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
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 9:57 PM Chris Neuman  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  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.  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. I remember ABC airing something
 else for a few minutes, before Ted Koppel came on form Washington(where he
 was hosting Nightline).

Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[Chris Neuman]

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  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.  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. I remember ABC airing something
>>> else for a few minutes, before Ted Koppel came on form Washington(where he
>>> was hosting Nightline).
>>>
>>
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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[Ben Scripps]

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.  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 
> mailto: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. I remember ABC airing something else for a 
> few minutes, before Ted Koppel came on form Washington(where he was hosting 
> Nightline).
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Re: [TV orNotTV] What show were you watching when a major news event happened?

[David Risner]

I was watching Bear in the Big Blue House on Disney Channel with my just
starting to walk daughter when my friend called me up and told me to put
the news on the morning of 9/11.

Most things, though, have happened during the day when at work or in
school. I did watch the tsunami that hit Japan, but I turned on the TV to
see it after reading something on Twitter about it.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020, 5:13 PM daniel anderson 
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> 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. I remember ABC airing something
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[daniel anderson]

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. I remember ABC airing something else for a 
few minutes, before Ted Koppel came on form Washington(where he was hosting 
Nightline).

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