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| On ], ], while covering a breaking news of a shooting in ], the WNBC-TV News helicopter suddenly fell out of the sky and crashed onto an apartment building rooftop. The pilot and two passengers were miraculously unharmed. Rival TV station ]'s news helicopter was covering the same news story when they saw the WNBC-TV helicopter in trouble. They called for help and also got exclusive footage of the actual crash |
On ], ], while covering a breaking news of a shooting in ], the WNBC-TV News helicopter suddenly fell out of the sky and crashed onto an apartment building rooftop. The pilot and two passengers were miraculously unharmed. Rival TV station ]'s news helicopter was covering the same news story when they saw the WNBC-TV helicopter in trouble. They called for help and also got exclusive footage of the actual crash and won an ] for their coverage. | ||
| This is not the first incident of a WNBC-operated helicopter crashing. In ] ], WNBC's news helicopter crashed into the ] near ] and ], ]. Twelve years earlier on ], ], WNBC-AM's |
This is not the first incident of a WNBC-operated helicopter crashing. In ] ], WNBC's news helicopter crashed into the ] near ] and ], ]. Twelve years earlier on ], ], WNBC-AM's hellicopter crashed into the ]. The crash killed traffic reporter ] and seriously injured pilot ]. Dornacker had recently gotten back to flying in a helicopter after surviving a previous crash of the N-Copter into the ] in ] a few months earlier.<br> | ||
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WNBC-TV ("NBC4") is the flagship TV station of the NBC television network, with studios located in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.
History
WNBC-TV was the first commercially licensed television station in the United States, broadcasting on Channel 1 as WNBT (for NBC Television) on July 1, 1941. In 1946, the station changed its frequency from Channel 1 to Channel 4 (VHF channel 1 has since been removed from use for television broadcasting). In 1992, WNBC was branded as 4 New York with a campaign entitled We're 4 New York with music written by noted televison composer Edd Kalehoff. WNBC was rebranded as NBC 4 in 1995 with the newscast entitled NewsChannel 4.
On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WNBC-TV as well as six other local television stations and several radio stations were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the World Trade Center towers in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. At first the station was broadcasting from a radio tower originally built by Edwin Armstrong in Alpine, New Jersey. As of 2005, WNBC-TV is broadcasting from the Empire State Building.
2004 marked the 30th anniversary of anchor Chuck Scarborough with the station. 2005 marked the 25th anniversary of anchor Sue Simmons with the station and anchoring the 11PM newscast with Chuck Scarborough.
Helicopter Crashes
On May 4, 2004, while covering a breaking news of a shooting in Brooklyn, the WNBC-TV News helicopter suddenly fell out of the sky and crashed onto an apartment building rooftop. The pilot and two passengers were miraculously unharmed. Rival TV station WABC-TV's news helicopter was covering the same news story when they saw the WNBC-TV helicopter in trouble. They called for help and also got exclusive footage of the actual crash and won an Emmy Award for their coverage.
This is not the first incident of a WNBC-operated helicopter crashing. In December 1998, WNBC's news helicopter crashed into the Passaic River near Harrison and Newark, New Jersey. Twelve years earlier on October 22, 1986, WNBC-AM's hellicopter crashed into the Hudson River. The crash killed traffic reporter Jane Dornacker and seriously injured pilot Bill Pate. Dornacker had recently gotten back to flying in a helicopter after surviving a previous crash of the N-Copter into the Hackensack River in New Jersey a few months earlier.
Newscast Titles
- Channel 4 (Sixth Hour/Eleven Hour) News (1950s-1974)
- NewsCenter 4 (1974-1980)
- News 4 New York (1980-1995)
- NewsChannel 4 (1995-)
See also
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