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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
That is true.
At one time, all of the major NYC TV stations were on The Empire State Building, and all moved to The World Trade Center.
WCBS-TV (Channel 2) was the only one left that still maintained a transmitter site at Empire State -- although I'm pretty sure it was a backup site and that Channel 2's main site was also at WTC.
Most (probably all) of the Trade Center sites were automated, but I know that there were some TV technicians at the sites, probably doing maintenance. The man who replaced me at the UN is a former Assistant Chief Engineer at one of the stations, and talked to one of his people on the phone who didn't make it out I believe.
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We are both correct.
Lifted from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_during_the_September_11%2C_2001_atta cks
"After the attack, the cell phone network of New York City was rapidly overloaded as traffic doubled over normal levels. Cell phone traffic also overloaded across the East Coast leading to crashes of the cell phone network. Since three of the major broadcast networks had their transmission towers atop the North Tower (One World Trade Center), coverage was limited after the collapse of the tower. The satellite feed of one station,
WPIX, froze on the last image received from the WTC mast; the image (a remote-camera shot of the burning towers), viewable across North America (as WPIX is available on cable TV in many areas), remained on the screen for much of the day until WPIX was able to set up alternate transmission facilities. It shows the WTC at the moment that power was cut off to the WPIX transmitter, prior to the towers' collapse.
During the September 11, 2001 attacks, WCBS-TV channel 2 stayed on the air. Unlike most of the other major New York television stations, it had long maintained a full-powered backup transmitter at the Empire State Building after moving its main transmitter to the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The station was also simulcasted nationally on Viacom (which at the time owned CBS) cable network VH1 that day. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the station lent transmission time to the other stations who had lost their transmitters until they found suitable backup equipment and locations.
The
Emergency Alert System was never activated in the terrorist attacks.
AT&T eliminated any costs for domestic calls originating from the New York City area (phones using area codes 212/718/917/646/347) in days following 9/11."
And before anyone jumps in with what maybe an incorrect thought:
Lifted from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System
"
On
September 11,
2001, ". . . the EAS was not activated nationally or regionally in New York or Washington during the terrorist attacks on the nation." Richard Rudman, then chairman of the EAS National Advisory Committee explained that near immediate coverage in the national media meant that the media itself provided the warning or alert of what had happened at what might happen as quickly as the information could be distributed. "Some events really do serve as their own alerts and warnings. With the immediate live media coverage, the need for an EAS warning was lessened." 34 PEP stations were kept on high alert for use if the President had decided to order an Emergency Action Notification. "PEP is really is a last-ditch effort to get a message out if the president cannot get to the media."
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