View Post Top 10 NYC Stations Cover 9/11 Museum Dedication By Merrill Knox on May. 15, 2014 - 11:36 AM President Barack Obama, survivors and victims’ families gathered this morning at the site of the 9/11 attacks for the dedication of the National September 11 Museum. With the exception of Fox-owned WNYW, stations in New York ...
View Post Reporting | Top 10 New York City Stations Cover High-Rise Rescue at Hearst Tower By Merrill Knox on Jun. 12, 2013 - 4:02 PM New York City stations broke into afternoon programming this afternoon with dramatic pictures of two window washers stranded on a scaffolding near the top of the Hearst Tower. NBC O&O WNBC was first to report the news at 2:58 ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | Top 10 Katie Couric Talks Te’o Interview on WABC By Merrill Knox on Jan. 24, 2013 - 5:44 PM After Katie Couric’s much-anticipated interview with Manti Te’o aired in New York this afternoon, the “Katie” host dropped by ABC O&O WABC. “I don’t think he was complicit in the hoax,” ...
Reporting | Top 10 New York Stations Go Live for Shuttle Landing By Andrew Gauthier on Apr. 27, 2012 - 4:08 PM As a jet carrying the space shuttle Enterprise touched down today at JFK airport around 11:21 a.m. ET, every major news station in New York was carrying live coverage of its arrival. Beginning at 10:30 a.m., WABC, WCBS, WNBC, and ...
Top 10 NYC Stations Cover New York Giants’ Victory Parade By Merrill Knox on Feb. 7, 2012 - 12:53 PM New York City stations devoted all resources this morning to coverage of the celebration parade for the New York Giants, who returned home yesterday after a big win in Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVI. Rob Powers and Lori Stokes anc ...
ABC Affiliates | Top 10 | Weather WABC Live Truck Flips Over on Icy New Jersey Turnpike By Merrill Knox on Oct. 31, 2011 - 11:59 AM A live truck belonging to WABC, the ABC owned-and-operated station in New York City, flipped over on the icy New Jersey Turnpike early Sunday morning. “The accident was most likely caused by black ice,” WABC anchor Lo ...
Top 10 | Weather New York Stations Well-Prepared for Blizzard that Never Was By Andrew Gauthier on Jan. 12, 2011 - 12:44 PM Like the snow removal crews stationed around the area, New York stations were well-prepared for the blizzard that never was on Wednesday morning. As Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared a “weather emergency” Tuesday even ...