9/11 anniversary TV

[MikeW]

We've had the National Geographic special, but I'm sure various other TV channels will be airing new 9/11-related programmes around the anniversary of the attacks, and maybe re-running older ones that haven't been seen for a while. And so I thought it might be worth starting a thread where people could share what their local TV are doing, and when they're doing it, as well as perhaps reviewing the programme later (many of these get shown in other countries later, so advance warning might be useful).

Here in the UK we've this new one:

9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers
Sunday September 6th, 9PM, Channel 4 (re-runs twice on More 4, 9/11)

Featuring newly-uncovered audio recordings, a wealth of previously unseen home movies, and powerful testimony from the victims' families, 9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers tells the stories of some of the people trapped in the World Trade Center in September 2001.

As the programme shows, these recorded messages and memories of the private calls remain a treasured legacy for the families left behind, the last known words of their loved ones. Dignified and full of love, they show humanity at its best and most courageous in the face of evil.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/102-minutes-that-changed-america

And this re-run:

9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America
Monday September 7th, 9PM, Channel 4 (no re-runs that I can see)

A hundred and two minutes passed between the first plane's impact into North Tower of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, the second plane's attack on South Tower, and the collapse of both buildings.

In that time, people around New York reached for their cameras.

This documentary joins together hundreds of pieces of footage and audiotape into a single, seamless historical record, much of it never seen before.
It is an intensely personal and new perspective of the tragedy, telling that morning's events in real time, as they were experienced by people around New York.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/102-minutes-that-changed-america/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1

The second one first appeared last year & got 4 Emmy nominations I think. It's a History Channel programme, the official site is here (don't miss the interactive map at http://www.history.com/genericContent.do?id=60326), and it's airing everywhere around 9/11. In Canada, for instance, it's "airing on CBC News: The Passionate Eye on Sunday September 13th at 10pm" (http://www.channelcanada.com/Article3349.html).

 

[progge]

German TV heavily concentrates on 9/11 CTs

00:00 Uhr, VOX
Flight 93 (Greengrass movie)

14:45 Uhr, Phoenix
Patriot Day - Jahrestag der Terroranschläge auf das World Trade Center in New York am 11. September 2001 (in situ reporting, probably from GZ and other locations in the US)

13:30 Uhr, 3Sat
Der 11. September - Das Geheimnis des dritten Turmes (BBC piece about WTC 7)

16:05 Uhr, N-24
9/11 – Die Verschwörungstheorien (another hitpiece against CTs)

22:35 Uhr, Pro7
Gallileo - Die Anschläge vom 11.September - Terror oder Staatsverschwörung? (crap)

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This slightly surprises me. Three from five programms will be about 9/11 CTs, one of the two remaining ones will just be a fictional piece. As to the Gallileo show, Gallileo is an Infotainment program on trash channel Pro7, and, as I was recently told, belongs to the (few) German mass media programs/representatives promoting 9/11 CTs. I don’t know which conditions this depends on, my guess is it partly depends on the Infotainment genre (which, strictly speaking, means pseudoscience). However, I once claimed that 9/11 CTS are not embraced in German mass media. I have to withdraw this statement. There is a small percentage of mass media representatives telling truther stories.*


*Another German Infotainment program from another German trash channel (RTL-2), Welt der Wunder, featured an article embracing 9/11 CTs in the youngest edition of their accompanying magazine (which is called Welt der Wunder, too). This piece included the most bizarre claims like the alleged 5m hole in and “dozens of witnesses” for a cruise missile at the Pentagon, nasty and misleading comments about Mark Bingham and Larry Silverstein etc. German-speaking 9/11 CTists seem to get an instant boner on this article, but it´s really dubious, even by the worst truther standards.

 

[sylvan8798]

Does anyone know if any of the networks will be running the original real-time feed either on TV or on the internet?

 

[Sabrina]

Does anyone know if any of the networks will be running the original real-time feed either on TV or on the internet?

archive.org has nearly all the real-time footage from ABC, CBS, FOX, CNN, NBC, BBC, MSNBC, and probably a few others available all the time.

I have it saved as a favorite on my computer at home; I'll post the direct link later. I believe the majority of it is saved from Washington DC stations; why I'm not sure, probably because of the Pentagon footage though.

 

[njslim]

History Channel is running "102 Minutes That Changed the World" followed by "Hotel Ground Zero" which features interviews and footage from Marriott Hotel (WTC3)
survivors. Runs Friday night from 8pm

 

[CompusMentus]

More4 UK also has this tomorrow

9/11: Millionaire Widows Sat 05 Sep, 11.30PM

Billions of dollars of compensation were handed out to the relatives of the 9/11 victims. This money was meant to ease the suffering, but for many it has actually ruined their lives for a second time. This film relates four emotive stories: from the broken family torn apart, to a single mother's desperate fight for recognition; and from a woman's battle with her partner's relatives, to a scorned ex-wife whose fire-fighter husband left her for the newly rich widow of his dead colleague.

Looks interesting.

Compus

 

[Sabrina]

Here's the direct link to the TV footage I mentioned.

http://www.archive.org/search.php?q...t_11_tv_archive AND subject:"Television News"

 

[NWOshill]

The History channel in New Zealand is currently advertising the premier of Loose Change an American Coup.

 

[Walter Ego]

History Channel is running "102 Minutes That Changed the World" followed by "Hotel Ground Zero" which features interviews and footage from Marriott Hotel (WTC3)
survivors. Runs Friday night from 8pm

The second show you mention was called "9/11 Hotel." It was produced in the UK by Channel 4. The complete program is available on my 9/11 video blog.

http://911vids.blogspot.com/2008/09/911-hotel.html

 

[SK.]

*Another German Infotainment program from another German trash channel (RTL-2), Welt der Wunder, featured an article embracing 9/11 CTs in the youngest edition of their accompanying magazine (which is called Welt der Wunder, too). This piece included the most bizarre claims like the alleged 5m hole in and “dozens of witnesses” for a cruise missile at the Pentagon, nasty and misleading comments about Mark Bingham and Larry Silverstein etc. German-speaking 9/11 CTists seem to get an instant boner on this article, but it´s really dubious, even by the worst truther standards.

The text of that can be found here: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=...jUtZWZhMy00N2YxLTk0NDktNWY3M2I0ZTc4NDE4&hl=en
Scan courtesy of the infamous "Alles Schall und Rauch Blog" with it´s leader Freeman, who endorses really every CT with open arms. Be it Chemtrails, 9/11 or the Kursk sunk by the US .. it´s all true. Of course, the comments are moderated and so "Freeman" can spout his crap unchallenged. His site is really one of the worst out there, with complete censorship and lots of people in the comments repeating all that garbage.

And to extend the german language "crap" TV list:

-Thursday, 11th September, 22:50 VOX: "9/11 Mysteries" (Yeah that one)

-Sunday, 6th September, 22:50 ORF (the austrian public, partly state funded TV station): "Zero - An Investigation into 9/11"

 

[240-185]

On french television, only one channel mentions 9/11. And it's a pay-per-view channel.

CANAL+:
- First, World Trade Center, the movie made by Oliver Stone,
- Then, an investigation on twoofers: what their motivations are, where they come from, etc, etc. But it's a rerun. So, one can say that 9/11 does NOT interest people anymore in France. At least, "normal" people.

 

[MikeW]

A reminder, for any UK forum members: "9/11: phone calls from the towers" is running now on Channel 4.

 

[Skeptic]

We've had the National Geographic special, but I'm sure various other TV channels will be airing new 9/11-related programmes around the anniversary of the attacks, and maybe re-running older ones that haven't been seen for a while.

The Onion beat us all to it, as usual.

 

[Architect]

A reminder, for any UK forum members: "9/11: phone calls from the towers" is running now on Channel 4.

And bloody awful it was to watch (for all the right reasons).

United 93 is on right now.

 

[MikeW]

And bloody awful it was to watch (for all the right reasons).

Yes, that kind of public pain is difficult to take. They did a good job with the programme, though, especially as it's their own, rather than the usual "History-Channel-show-with-a-new-voiceover".

 

[T.A.M.]

Canada:

CBC - Sept 11th, 8-10PM "Diverted" (A doc about how on 9/11 many planes were diverted to Newfoundland Canada)

CTV - nothing

TAM

 

[stateofgrace]

A reminder, for any UK forum members: "9/11: phone calls from the towers" is running now on Channel 4.

I watched this for the first time tonight, the call from Kevin Cosgrove was featured in it and although I had heard it before, its impact never diminishes. A very well make documentary and as was stated during it, it actually gave an insight into what was happening inside the towers to those caught up in it, as the rest of us watched from the outside.

 

[MikeW]

Again in the UK, "102 minutes that changed America" is starting on Channel 4 in a couple of minutes. Lots of amateur footage that I don't think has appeared on UK TV before (although it was aired in the US last year), & so should be worth a look.

 

[240-185]

Tonight, "102 minutes that changed America" in France too, on France 3, 3rd national channel. Followed by "Flight 93, the new heroes of America".

 

[Boone 870]

Thursday night, Fox News Channel:


"FOX News Reporting: 9/11: Timeline of Terror"airs on FOX News Channel on Thursday, Sept. 10, at 10 pm ET, with a replay at 1 am ET.

This story is told using "real time" sources from events of 9/11: The cockpit recordings from the hijacked airliners, cell phone calls from people on the planes, FAA and Air Traffic Control recordings, emergency 911 cell phone calls, FDNY dispatches, and press updates by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. This special also features interviews with both survivors and rescuers from the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and the relatives who talked to those who died fighting the hijackers on Flight 93. FOX News Channel's anchor and reporter coverage connects events as the story unfolds.