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.
2) About 20 years before that, NBC interrupted snl to report
that Rep. Leo Ryan (and some of his staff members) had been
attacked (or killed? or were missing?) after visiting Jonestown.
3) This was not a major news event but I thought it was
interesting:
IIRC, about 7? years ago, I was watching the last half hour
of CBS Sunday Morning when our local CBS affiliate split the
screen (maybe a picture - in - picture mode?) to show an
unmanned rocket launch. (Many Orlando stations do this
routinely.)
The launch seemed to proceed normally for a minute or two,
but then the rocket appeared to explode. (Unfortunately,
that happens sometimes.)
What I found interesting was that the explosion wasn't
mentioned on the air. I.e. nobody from the local affiliate
came on the air to say anything about the rocket's apparent
failure.
IIRC, within minutes I checked some of the other local
stations; but, IIRC, I didn't find *any* other coverage of
that launch.
4) Again, this was not exactly a "major news event", but it
was something on TV news that was not a normal experience:
Back when I still had semi-regular Internet access, and
Gmail still let me download emails via the POP3 protocol, my
subscription to this group caused me to receive almost daily
digests in my email Inbox.
But, I often preferred to wait a few days and then "binge
read" those digests. Consequently, for several days, I
remained ignorant of Tom Heald's passing.
During that interval, I happened to watch part of an episode
of World News Now. In that episode, one of the anchors
(Jeremy? ?), announced Tom's passing.
IIRC, that was the first time that I had heard the name of
someone that I knew (however indirectly) mentioned on a
national news broadcast.
N.B. feel free to respond if you like. But please, don't be
disappointed if I can't see it (much less respond to it) for
awhile.
--
Eddie
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