# WTC Bombing and TV Stations **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 11, 2001, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909 "2001-09-11T20:47:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909/1 "2001-09-11T20:47:27Z")
I know most of the TV Stations in NYC have their Antennas on the WTC. How did they broadcast after it collapsed? ---
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909/2 "2001-09-11T21:50:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Markxxx \* > \*\*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? ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909/3 "2001-09-12T00:41:38Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Zot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e79b87/32.png) [@Zot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zot)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909/4 "2001-09-12T00:58:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909/5 "2001-09-12T01:08:24Z")
Channel 7 (WABC) is broadcasting on Channels 25 & 68 ---
**Author:** ![Nanook\_of\_the\_North\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Nanook\_of\_the\_North\_Shore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanook_of_the_North_Shore)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909/6 "2001-09-12T02:02:35Z")
NBC was reporting that they were broadcasting from WLIW Channel 21 on LI, part of the PBS network. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909/7 "2001-09-12T02:11:50Z")
I have East Coast network feeds on my satellite dish and as of this post only WWOR UPN9 is still off the air. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909/8 "2001-09-12T02:50:16Z")
Seeing that most people get their info from TV, I hardly think it is an unimportant question. But a rather rude response. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_from\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Man\_from\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_from_Mars)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909/9 "2001-09-12T05:38:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bobevilsquid \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Markxxx \* > > \*\*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? \*\* 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? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909/10 "2001-09-12T14:22:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TheeGrumpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheeGrumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheeGrumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909/11 "2001-09-12T21:18:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Saxman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@Saxman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saxman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-bombing-and-tv-stations/80909/12 "2001-09-13T00:54:26Z")
From [http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/11/attacks.media.ap/index.html:](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.”