September 11th Anniversary TV Coverage (VIDEO)

The networks are announcing their plans for 9/11 coverage as the tenth anniversary of the tragic day approaches.

All the major networks will be broadcasting live from the national memorial services on the morning of Sunday, September 11. Scott Pelley will anchor coverage for CBS News, Brian Williams for NBC News and {} for ABC News. On cable, CNN's Anderson Cooper and Candy Crowley will be anchoring from Ground Zero, while MSNBC will simulcast NBC's live coverage.

CBS, NBC and ABC will be turning the focus of their evening newscasts and newsmagazines, including "Dateline" and "Meet the Press," to 9/11 in the week leading up to the day.

The networks will also commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11 with a slew of original productions that explore the stories of the attacks' victims and survivors. See the full details of their documentaries below. Which networks will you be tuning into?

Comments

[whyus]

03:00 AM on 09/08/2011

The MSM will probably never get around to this story, which is the French are out there commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11. There will be gatherings of people, French and American musicians, speeches and other big events in Paris that day. They don't forget and they care. We were all one on that day, and in spite of Bush and his "freedom fries" later on, they have always commiserated with us. The French people do not forget history.

[cincinnati]

09:27 AM on 09/09/2011

And high numbers of them, and of millions of Americans, have done their research, on easily found sites, to see many serious questions remain, in fact were deliberately ignored by the Commission.

The surviving familes got together and presented many questions to the Com., only to find 70% [ !!! ] of them not even touched, maybe Too Hot To Handle ! Break down even a little of the STORY and the entire thing starts to fall apart, just like the amazingly fast fall of building 7, which even the US report said it didn't know why it did...?!?!

Both of the two top Com's say they were rushed, didn't have enough money [ only 14% of what wasted on Clinton's private affair....?!? ], and were pressured not to explore some very critical evidence of a Much More Complex attack, with more involved.....like perhap the neocon's, who had said they wanted a
NEW PEARL HARBOR !

They want a new one, demand it !

[whyus]

11:36 AM on 09/10/2011

Yes, salient points, all. I guess there are too many "known unknowns" to keep from the public. Especially us.

[ctubbs70]

06:28 PM on 09/07/2011

No network can top what the Discovery Channel accomplished - Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero was jaw-droppingly amazing.

No matter if you are a Dem or Repub, liberal or conservative, independent or libertarian, if that series didn't make you proud to be an AMERICAN, I don't think anything will. It captures every emotion imaginable related to that fateful day - a feat not easy to accomplish on tv these days.

The series will leave one simply inspired and can be seen in its entirety this Sunday (and no, I am not employed by Discovery).

[StephenJK]

08:52 PM on 09/07/2011

Another "proud" American. Another dime, another dozen.

[Hardyman1966]

05:57 PM on 09/07/2011

"What the Networks Are Doing for 9/11"

Makes me feel like I should be addressing cards or something.

[Earl]

05:37 PM on 09/07/2011

My guess is "Fear Marathon Weekend."

[Folk Hero]

04:27 PM on 09/07/2011

What is up with the moderator on this thread?

[mooklyn]

04:07 PM on 09/07/2011

My sympathies to the families, but why fetishize these deaths over others in our national discourse? We felt so 'hurt' we had to hurt not only 100,000 Iraqi civilians, but some 4400 of our own dead soldiers and 33,000 disabled veterans for Iraq. I want to do anything we can for the victims of this day, but we lost our minds. It's a day to remember, but not at the expense of our sanity.

To put it in perspective, cell-phone use in cars kills an estimated 2600 people PER YEAR, and we lost almost 500,000 people in the pursuit of automotive freedom since 9-11.

[cincinnati]

09:33 AM on 09/09/2011

Yes, a complete loss of perspective and fair analysis !

IRAQ had nothing to do with it, despite many months of propaganda
implying that from right wing media like Fox, to Bush Adm.

This was a very complex day, it was either allowed or Worse !

As far as IRAQ.....costs will go over $ 4 TRILLION...or $ 4,000 BILLIONS $$$$$
or over $ 40,000 for every US family $$$$$
AND taking care of vet's for 60-80 years at billions for each....
so IRAQ will not be fully paid for until about 2100.....
if you are 20-30 you'll be paying for it Your Entire LIFE !

And yet the GOP throws fits about far less money for insulating homes or
energy conservation in general, alternative energy, education, health, etc....NUTS !?!

[MzSally]

03:20 PM on 09/07/2011

I can get behind the phrases "What are you doing for Christmas?", "What are you doing for your birthday?" or "What are you doing for Easter?", but I cannot accept the phrase "What are you doing for 9/11?". It's not a freaking holiday or special event. It's the anniversary of a very bad day. Would you ask someone "What are you doing for the day your daughter died?". Not me. It's a day for personal reflection, not for "doing something". It is pathetic that the media is trying to turn this into some kind of contest for who can be the best rememberer.

[Wilson H Weaver]

02:43 PM on 09/07/2011

I look forward to tuning in to see {} on ABC.

[Lauren Kottwitz]

02:39 PM on 09/07/2011

While I certainly understand the need to commemorate the lives lost on 9/11, I find it pretty morbid to spend all day fixated on it. Not because it's morbid to remember, but because I know that what we'll see on any channel we watch is the bombardment of those memories. They'll show the towers getting hit, the screaming masses, the collapsing, the burning wreckage, and they'll show it on a constant loop, all day long. As if we have forgotten. As if we could ever stop our brains from recalling those images any time anyone makes the mention of 9/11. What purpose does that serve but to stir the trauma in this country? We just keep yanking the band-aid off and tearing those wounds back open, and for what purpose? I feel like I'm stuck in traffic and I'm the only person who doesn't want to keep traffic up by immersing myself in the grizzly aftermath of the fifteen-car-pileup on the shoulder. I don't care to see it. I know it before I get there. All I want is to say a prayer and move forward. Granted, media exposure or not, I'm going to be thinking about it all day. That's what has happened every other September 11th since 2001, at least. I just don't want to spend all of that day crying. What good would that do anyone?

I don't know. To each their own. I guess my grieving process is a private one.

[El Chingaso]

11:43 AM on 09/07/2011

Maybe the network news divisions ought to to...absolutely nothing. Perhaps, a full day of silence, sans networks' usual drivel...would be the honorable -- yes, that's right -- thing to do.

[MzSally]

03:22 PM on 09/07/2011

That is a nice idea.

[springsm]

11:39 AM on 09/07/2011

Oh crum, a whole morning of Brian Williams delivering his smooth funeral statements. Gag. I am not sure this is FOR 9-11...but whatever....it is a hard day to remember after ten years, but somehow the drama is going to be far too much...we can count on that. Does it help the survivors? Or all of us that were in mourning for all of the victims? I don't think so...this forever bringing up 9-11 as tragic and heinous as that was/is....does not help any of us move forward and heal. I don't think so on that either. Which does not mean that when it is mentioned, my heart remains still...it doesn't.

[Lauren Kottwitz]

02:40 PM on 09/07/2011

Right there with you.

[jymfrancais]

10:28 AM on 09/07/2011

Was disapointed, but not surprised to see that none of the networks/cable had the idea of Programing "Man On a Wire", a magnificient tribute to the World trade Center

[Folk Hero]

09:11 AM on 09/07/2011

I've noticed that on 9/11, TV channels feature the burning towers & horrible images of falling people. Every tragic minute is rehashed obsessively. I wish that the anniversary wouldn't entail such morbid fixations. On 9/11, I won't watch the victims fall from windows on TV all day. I want to counteract the media's macabre need to re-instill the fear & sadness that we felt on 9/11. Volunteer, donate, thank firemen-- honor the victims in positive ways.

[cincinnati]

09:35 AM on 09/09/2011

Reinstill fear .....to justify the war's and hide the mysteries of 911, the puzzle that does not fit !
And maybe prepare us for more war and waste $$$$

[progressivegreg]

09:09 AM on 09/07/2011

It's been 10 YEARS, we have moved into a state of perpetual war and destroyed our economy because of the costs!!! Can we end our self pity party PLEASE!!!!

[ctubbs70]

06:33 PM on 09/07/2011

Remembering and rebuilding is not a "self pity party". I don't think you'd be saying that if you lost a family member or friend that day. Debates on "war" and why the "economy is destroyed" have no place in this discussion.

[cincinnati]

09:39 AM on 09/09/2011

Sorry but wrong.

Lots of evidence this was "allowed" or much Worse !
The neocon's said a year before they WANTED to project
US Power, but NEEDED a NEW PEARL HARBOR to get the
public behind it.

The economy was fairly good before, and the real winner of 2000,
Gore, would have contined the growth and paying down the debt !
Throwing money at so-called defense, and yet not asking for
Shared Sacrifice in times of war, just borrowing incredible sums,
YES, did screw the economy !
More or less for at least 20 years !

[jackdaniel58]

08:51 AM on 09/07/2011

Enough already!