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* Of note, VH1 simulcasted [[New York City]]'s WCBS-TV nationally, as they were the only major English-language station in the city not completely knocked off the air that day (they had a backup tower on the Empire State Building, unlike the other stations. Also, VH1 and [[CBS]], of which WCBS was its flagship station, were co-owned at the time, allowing for the simulcast to take place).
* In Canada, almost every major basic cable station in Canada ran news reports about the tragedy - except for youth programming channels (which continued airing repeats of their early morning shows) and public access stations (almost all of which went to a static image saying that programming was suspended).
* Parodied by [[The Onion]], which showed the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103102034/http://www.theonion.com/issue/3734/ TV listings] for the week after 9/11. And they were quite accurate.
* [[Nickelodeon]] played cartoons, as if to tell kids that even though things were bad, they were going to be okay.
* [[Saturday Night Live]]'s first episode after the attack opened with [[Big Damn Heroes|New York Firemen]] on stage with mayor Rudolph Giuliani saying it was OK to laugh.
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