Local news channels go all out for 9/11: CN8, NY1 prepare anniversary coverage. (One Year Later: Cable Remembers).(cable news services, New York, Pennsylvania; coverage of September 11 attack anniversary)

Multichannel News, September, 2002 by Forkan, Jim

Cable's local news networks in New York City and Pennsylvania, both hard hit by the terrorists' attacks of last Sept. 11, are going all out to mark the tragedy's first anniversary. But executives at Time Warner Cable's New York 1 News and Comcast Corp.'s CN8 emphasized that their services have been covering this news story throughout the past 12 months and are not suddenly jumping on the anniversary bandwagon.

(Officials at NewsChannel 8 in Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh Cable News Channel were unavailable at presstime.) NY1 senior vice president and general manager Steve Paulus said his network will offer "close to 100 hours" of events, memorials and other Sept. 11-related programming under the umbrella title 9/11: Reflect, Remember, Rebuild, That...

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