jimcolgan: Recent Episodes
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Third Coast Festival people breaking out into song after Jad Abumbrad's talk. Makes more sense if you hear this: http://www.radiolab.org/2007/sep/24/behaves-so-strangely/
.@EvanTenenbaum talking to @thirdcoastfest peeps about @SoundCloud #TCconf at McCormick Tribune Center by jimcolgan
A local NBC reporter talking about a "mystery in the sky" at the Griffith Observatory (unfortunately a helicopter flew by at the same time). at Griffith Observatory by jimcolgan
Mark Hyland explains why people listening on FM cannot hear the program, because the antenna was at the World Trade Center.
An eye witness describes the first plane that hit to WNYC host Mark Hilan. He was describing it as a commercial, American Airlines plane, while other media were still describing it as a likely twin-engine aircraft.
Charlie Hynes, who worked for the station's underwriting department, described the situation: "I was shocked at how low the airplane was flying. The wings were waggling. I saw the airliner, it appeared to be an American Airlines plane...Moments later we heard a rather large explosion."
Mark Hilan continued the WNYC broadcast as the second tower collapsed. But as everyone in the building was ordered to leave the building, he signed off temporarily and let the national programme continue.
When the first plane hit the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, WNYC was broadcasting just blocks away from the World Trade Center. Host Mark Hyland broke into regularly scheduled programming to bring the early details of the attacks, including vivid eyewitness descriptions from producers and reporters.
More eyewitnesses from WNYC describe the second plane crashing into the second tower minutes after it happened on September 11, 2011.
Nuala McGovern, who was the producer of The Brian Lehrer Show at the time, and who is now a presenter for the BBC's World Have Your Say, described what she saw: "I saw the first explosion. It took out the third top of the building. The second one seems to have done more damage. I can hear police sirens, ambulances and most numbers that we're trying are completely busy."