Posted on: Sunday, September 8, 2002
TV plans full day of Sept. 11 coverage
Advertiser News Services
For most Americans, television was the window through which the events of Sept. 11, were viewed. And for most, it will be the medium for remembering that day one year later.
Broadcast networks and cable channels will mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks by televising an extensive number of documentaries and specials on the subject, as well as carrying live coverage of public ceremonies and commemorations.
Television's nonstop coverage may seem excessive, says Marian Fontana, widow of a firefighter who died that day. Then again, it also seems appropriate.
"It's a struggle in our culture of oversaturating the public," says Fontana, president of the 9/11 Widows and Victims' Family Association. But "there's a part of me that doesn't want people to forget and move on."
In the days ahead, there will be no forgetting. "My hope is that it's going to be all about the heroes who came from that experience," says Shepard Smith, who will be one of the anchors for Fox's coverage.
What the networks are planning in memory of Sept. 11
Today
• "America Remembers," 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. on CNN • "Growing Up at Ground Zero," 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on MSNBC
• "Campaign Against Terror," 8 p.m. on PBS
• "MSNBC Investigates: Target Manhattan," 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on MSNBC Monday
• "Heroes of Ground Zero," 8 p.m. on PBS • "Investigative Reports: Anatomy of September 11" at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on A&E • "Reflections From Ground Zero," 5 p.m. on Showtime Tuesday
• "Why the Towers Fell," 8 p.m. on PBS • "Report From Ground Zero," 8 p.m on ABC
• "Stranded Yanks," 9 p.m. on PBS • "America Rebuilds," 10 p.m. on PBS Wednesday, Sept. 11
• Programs from 5 p.m. to midnight on TLC: • "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero," 10 p.m. on PBS • "9/11: The Day America Changed," 7 p.m. on Fox • "Portraits of Grief," 5 p.m., 8 p.m., 11 p.m. on Discovery Channel • "9/11," 8 p.m. on CBS • "Rebuilding Ground Zero," 7 p.m., 10 p.m. on the Discovery Channel • "A Requiem for September 11," 10 p.m. on PBS • "3 Weeks After Paradise," 4 p.m. on Bravo
A repeat airing of this two-hour piece, looking back at the attacks and their aftermath.
This installment of "National Geographic Explorer," in collaboration with National Geographic Kids magazine, relates the experience of pupils at New York's Public School 234, four blocks from where the Trade Center towers collapsed.
This "Frontline" program documents the formation of an international coalition against al-Qaida and the Taliban after the terrorist attacks.
This program, begun before Sept. 11 and updated afterward, cites a study dealing with possible terrorism in New York City.
Most of this documentary was filmed in New York in the weeks after the attack on the World Trade Center. It follows two of the city's fire companies as they coped with the loss of fellow firefighters while taking part in the rescue-recovery effort.
This documentary, done in collaboration with The New York Times, details the 102 minutes from the first impact at the World Trade Center to the collapse of the towers.
Filmmaker Spike Lee hosts a presentation of nine films produced by students and recent graduates of Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The pieces, personal narratives and documentaries, address different aspects of the tragedy and have running times that vary. The collection will re-air on Wednesday.
"Nova" repeats this forensic study detailing how and why the Trade Center towers collapsed.
Based on the Dennis Smith book, this program focuses on the experiences of firefighters, police and Port Authority officers who responded to the attack.
This is the story of the period from Sept. 11 to Sept. 16 when Canadians opened their homes to Americans whose airliners were grounded north of the border as an emergency measure.
The 90-minute film, narrated by New Yorker Kevin Spacey, chronicles the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attack and the beginning of efforts to rebuild the World Trade Center site.
TLC, one of the Discovery family of channels, plans seven hours of 9/11-related programs. Featured at 8 p.m. is "110 Stories," which includes work from the September 11 Photo Project along with eyewitness accounts from that day. The other TLC offerings: "Babies of 9/11" at 5 p.m.; "Still Riding" at 6 p.m.; "Here Is New York" at 7p.m.; "World Trade Center: Anatomy of a Collapse" at 9 p.m.; "Inside Flight 93" at 11 p.m.
A repeat of last week's "Frontline" program centering on the impact of the attacks on people's religious lives.
Brit Hume will host a two-hour program from Ground Zero analyzing what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, and the impact of the tragedy on the United States. This special will feature Greta Van Susteren at the Pentagon and Shepard Smith at Ground Zero. Linda Vester, in Shanksville, Pa., will talk with Lisa Beamer, whose husband, Todd, aided the revolt against the hijackers on board United Flight 93. With Bill O'Reilly and Carl Cameron.
The program recalls 18 people who died on Sept. 11 and details their lives through videos and interviews with friends and family. The program, done in cooperation with The New York Times, is based on that newspaper's long-running series of obituaries of 9/11 victims.
This account of the World Trade Center attack from French filmmakers Gedeon and Jules Naudet and fireman James Hanlon has been nominated for five Emmy Awards. Some 52 million people watched at least a portion of the program when it first aired in March.
This program focuses on the debate among architects, city planners, neighborhood leaders and victims' survivors over what to do with the World Trade Center site.
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Westminster Choir stage a memorial concert in Liberty State Park in Jersey City against the backdrop of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.
Playwright Israel Horovitz wrote and performed this one-hour monologue on the events of the day.
