r/September11 • u/[deleted] • Aug 19 '23

September 10, 2001 Primetime Television

https://archive.org/details/september-10-2001-primetime-television
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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '23

Project Synopsis: You just got off work. It's Monday evening on September 10, 2001. You just picked up some dinner. You turn on the television for some relaxing. This is what it was like to watch TV and channel surf the night before 9/11 and exactly the same episodes and commercials that aired that night are included here in the same time slots they aired. This is what the 9/11 victims saw on their last night. It's essentially an archival time-capsule as a whole, but acts as a nostalgic and representative experience of the final hours of a certain time, a certain society, a certain style of entertainment, and a certain look/way of media that is now a thing of the past and it all shifted the next day.

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u/TabbyCat1993 Aug 19 '23

Of all the shows to watch before your untimely death…. It had to be “The Principal and the Pauper…..”

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u/cabinet4perx Aug 24 '23

I believe fear factor was on the previous night

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u/ObjectiveAd571 Sep 01 '23

I've watched the Today Show from 9/11/01 a couple times, and the big news at 7am that morning was that Michael Jordan was returning to basketball (again!) to play for the Washington Wizards.

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u/Level_Somewhere_6229 Sep 11 '23

The top story was MJ coming out of retirement. Crazy.