I know most of the TV Stations in NYC have their Antennas on the WTC. How did they broadcast after it collapsed?
As far as I know, they didn’t. Fox5 isn’t braodcasting right now. But TV doesn’t matter right now. So who cares?
Channel 2 in NYC has a backup broadcast facility in the Empire State Building. They were also the only station on the air after the WTC bombing in '93.
Zev Steinhardt
I can confirm this. Channel 2 is the only one currently broadcasting in the 2 - 13 spectrum. There are a few stations still broadcasting in the higher numbers, but these are not necessarily based in New York City. I live just on the other side of the Hudson from the WTC. The signal from channel 2 is to fuzzy to be worth watching from here.
Channel 7 (WABC) is broadcasting on Channels 25 & 68
NBC was reporting that they were broadcasting from WLIW Channel 21 on LI, part of the PBS network.
I have East Coast network feeds on my satellite dish and as of this post only WWOR UPN9 is still off the air.
Seeing that most people get their info from TV, I hardly think it is an unimportant question.
But a rather rude response.
Hey evilsquiddy, from where do you get your information? And what if someone wants to get his/her mind off this pain and suffering and watch a sit-com or two?
To my knowledge and the best that I can determine from the FCC database, the
following stations transmitters were located in the World Trade Center:
Television:
WCBS / 2
WNBC / 4
WNYW / 5
WABC / 7
WWOR / 9
WPIX / 11
WNET / 13
WPXN / 31
WPIX / 33
WNJU / 47
FM:
WKCR / 89.9
WPAT / 93.1
WNYC / 93.9
WKTU / 103.5
I believe WCBS-TV has an aux site, at the Empire State Building. WKTU-FM has
an aux site at 2 Times Square. All the other VHF’s are off the air, as are
UHF statons, WPXN-TV and WNJU-TV.
The deaths are terrible, but it’s the little things that add up. I’m talking about collateral damage, as it were. TV stations knocked out, mail delivery disrupted, secondary effects caused by disrupted mail delivery… it goes on.
All done with a fistful of box-cutters.
From http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/11/attacks.media.ap/index.html:
"Most local New York TV stations, except for WCBS, were knocked off the air when their transmitters atop the World Trade Center were destroyed. All the stations’ signals, however, could be seen over cable systems in the New York area.
“It was not immediately clear how many New Yorkers were blocked from television coverage of the events. Roughly two-thirds of the nation’s television homes get cable or satellite.”