New York City (Post September, 2006 Attacks)

JERICHO PROSPECTIVE AFTERMATH
A "REAL TIME VS. JERICHO TIME" ANTHOLOGY

New York City(circa 2010)-All of the American broadcast networks would have survived the bombs and would be up and running again by now. The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Broadcast Center is the television and radio production facility located in New York City. It is CBS's main East Coast production center, and became the main hub for CBS's news and entertainment divisions after their West Coast hub (Television City) in Los Angeles was destroyed by the nuclear blast there.
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is the American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The NBC Studios complex in Burbank, California was destroyed in the Los Angeles blast so, NBC also was forced to move its' entertainment division conglomerating it with its' news division in New York.
The American Broadcasting Company's (ABC) Corporate headquarters are in Manhattan in New York City and was forced to move their programming offices to New York City after they were destroyed by the LA blast along with the Walt Disney Studios and the Walt Disney Company corporate headquarters that were in Burbank, California.
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) took the biggest loss of all of the networks with both its east coast headquarters in Arlington, Virginia (located directly across the Potomac River to the southwest of Washington, D.C.) and west coast operations in Burbank, California destroyed in the attacks.
Its radio counterpart, National Public Radio (NPR) suffered a similar fate when its' corporate headquarters in Washington, D.C. were destroyed in the attacks.
PBS now operates out of its' flagship station WNET's television studios and offices located in New York City.
NPR now operates out of its' own New York City offices also.
FOX started broadcasting primarily out of its New York City studios after its' corporate headquarters in Beverly Hills, California were destroyed by the Los Angeles blast.
The CW's first two nights of programming—Monday and Tuesday, September 18 and September 19, 2006—consisted of reruns and launch-related specials. The CW marked its formal launch date on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 8P.M. (7P.M. Central), with a 2-hour season premiere of "America's Next Top Model".
By my estimated date of attacks the bombs went off 5 minutes into the broadcast (EDT and CDT).
(TENTATIVE DATE AND TIME OF THE ATTACKS: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 AT 8:05P.M. EDT.
Based on the date that Jericho premiered on CBS, Wednesday, September 20, 2006.)
When The CW Network's Burbank, California corporate headquarters was destroyed by the LA attack, the network was forced to relocated and now has all of its' offices and studios in both the Time Warner Center and the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City.
The CW since then has been simulcasting mostly from the CBS feed since CBS does own The CW in part along with Time Warner Inc.
(How ironic that "Jericho" premiered on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 on CBS AT 8P.M. and The CW's "America's Next Top Model" was one of the series' original competition).
Basically, programs based in New York City such as "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric", "The Late Show with David Letterman", "Saturday Night Live" and "Showtime at the Apollo" would still be on the air as well as some of the soap operas that are taped
in New York City such as "As The World Turns".
In other words, New York City is now the new "Hollywood".
However, in the days immediately following the electricity being restored, all of the networks were broadcasting 24/7 "September Attacks" coverage unparalleling any news coverage of any tragedy that had occurred before including 9/11 and the Kennedy assassination.
All of the network and local affiliates' news divisions took monumental losses all across the country and parts of Canada and Mexico in the 23 American cities attacked and the Canadian and Mexican cities indirectly attacked.
Radiation poisoning and fallout levels were a primary concern for reporters covering the "September Attacks".
Images of the Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam Wars looked pale in comparison to the images of destruction, death, confusion, and chaos from multiple ground zeros and the Second American Civil War that we saw on our television screens every day right here in North America.
Of course, the television, radio, and newspaper media, emergency first responders, and even the military could only get so close to the attacked areas due to nuclear contamination.
Locally, even though New York City survived the nuclear attacks with minimal fallout, the ensuing EMP caused problems resulting in the Hudson River Virus which FEMA expedited vaccinations to area hospitals. Unfortunately, the vaccinations did not come in time to stop the virus from spreading outside city limits. It was finally contained several months later.
Foreign aid came into New York City from all four corners of the world.
In the days following the bombs, Madison Square Garden resembled the Superdome in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and then again after the "September Attacks".
There has hardly been a day that has gone by since the attacks that The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, Crain's New York Business, The New York Gotham Gazette, The New York Observer, The New York Press, The New York Sun (until it ceased publication on September 30, 2008), The Chief Leader, The Villager, and The New York Village Voice not had a "September Attacks" related article on their front pages.
Also in the wake of the attack in Los Angeles, the networks had to scramble to rely on imported foreign programming to replace all of the programming that had been lost due to the blast in Hollywood.
The lists of celebrities dead, missing, injured, or presumed dead in southern California from the attacks are staggering.
The death toll from the attacks is incredible.
When the electricity returned, local area radio stations such as WDHA-FM and WAXQ-FM played what seemed to be endless tributes to rock bands and musicians killed and injured in the attacks all across North America.
Billboard Magazine is also headquartered in New York City and survived the attacks as did its London bureau. Unfortunately however, Billboard's bureaus in Los Angeles and Miami were destroyed by the attacks.
On September 20, 2006, the day of the attacks, The New York Metropolitan Opera and SIRIUS Satellite Radio (SIRIUS Satellite Radio is headquartered in New York City as well and survived the attacks [ with smaller studios in Los Angeles {destroyed in the attacks} and Memphis] ) announced a multi-year agreement to create Metropolitan Opera Radio, the definitive radio channel for opera lovers. The channel was to debut on SIRIUS on Monday, September 25, 2006 but, when the bombs knocked out satellite communications, it postponed the station's debut as well as cancelled The Metropolitan Opera's schedule for an entire year (September, 2007).
Metropolitan Opera Radio is currently broadcast on SIRIUS Satellite Radio channel 78 (Originally on channel 85) and XM Satellite Radio channel 79 ( On July 29, 2008, SIRIUS officially took over and revitalized former competitor XM Satellite Radio (XM) whose Washington D.C. headquarters was destroyed in the September Attacks of 2006 forming Sirius XM Radio. XM was the largest satellite radio company in the United States before the nuclear attacks).
Only recently have things begun to resemble some type of normalcy (only things will never ever be the same) that production had started to resume on such television series that were filmed in NYC, such as "CSI: New York" and "Law and Order".
Clean up continued at the World Trade Center site and construction continued on The National September 11 Memorial & Museum and the "Freedom Tower".
In an errie irony, construction to build the National September 11 Memorial & Museum began in March 2006, just six months before the bombs.
Construction on the Freedom Tower began in April 2006, just five months before the bombs and 7 World Trade Center (WTC) had just reopened in May 2006, just 4 months before the bombs.
On March 26, 2009, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced that the ''Freedom Tower'' will be known as ''One World Trade Center'', replacing its former name.
With a high proportion of the nation's historical landmarks now gone, the Empire State Building, Strawberry Fields, and the Statue of Liberty have become three of the biggest tourist attractions in the country.
The yearly Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and New Year's celebrations on Times Square resumed.
Broadway and Radio City Music Hall started accepting food items for ticket prices-the theater and concerts were too big a part of New York City not to have survived.
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra has played numerous benefit concerts since the attacks.
From Trump Tower (Donald Trump survived the attacks for he was hosting his Trump Magazine Going Public Party at Trump Tower alongside his daughter Ivanka Trump who survived as well in New York City at the time of the attacks in September 2006) to Central Park, New York City has become a sort of "Mecca" compared to the death and destruction that had occurred elsewhere.
Miraculously, both the New York Yankees and the New York Mets survived the attacks. The Yankees were finishing up a three game series with the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto on that fateful day hoping to clinch their ninth-consecutive AL East title and 12th-straight playoff berth. They ended up stuck in Canada for quite some time. The Mets were at home at Shea Stadium on that tragic day playing the third of what was to be a four game series with the Florida Marlins. The Marlins were stuck in NYC for quite some time after that. The Florida Marlins survived the attacks, Miami, where the team was based, did not. The Mets had just clinched their first National League East Title Since 1988 that Monday, September 18, 2006, at Shea Stadium, in the first game of that series with the Marlins, beating them 4-0.
The rest of the 2006 Major League Baseball season was cancelled by the nuclear attacks that evening and play did not resume until the 2008 season only because there were many minor league teams that were able to get bumped up to major league status to replace all of the teams and players that were lost in the attacks.
The production/multimedia wing of MLB is New York City-based MLB Advanced Media, which oversees MLB.com and all of the individual teams' websites and survived the attacks.
Shea Stadium was demolished over the 2008-2009 off season to furnish additional parking for the adjacent Citi Field, the current home of the New York Mets since April 3, 2009.
Prior to the attacks, the Mets (in conjunction with Citigroup, also based in New York City, surviving the attacks) had unveiled architectural and design plans for the new ballpark in April, 2006. Pre-construction work began in early summer 2006 and actual construction commenced with excavation, foundation, and pile-driving work in August, 2006, just one month before the bombs.
The New York Giants and the New York Jets also survived the attacks for they were back in New York City practicing for upcoming games that were never played. Two weeks into the regular season, the rest of the 2006 NFL football season was also cancelled due to the nuclear attacks and did not resume until the following year (2007) with a skeleton slate of teams. The NFL is still currently in the process of adding expansion teams from cities that were not attacked to replace the teams and players lost in the nuclear attacks.
The National Football League (NFL) is also headquartered in New York City and survived the attacks.
( I know that is a stretch but, I do not want to deprive NYC of a 2008 Giants' Super Bowl victory even in Jericho Time!)
Tragically, New York City lost its' mayor that day. Mayor Michael Bloomberg was killed in the nuclear attacks while in Los Angeles on a two-day trip to California. On September 20, 2006, just hours before the attacks, Bloomberg attended a safety rally and news conference to discuss education at John C. Fremont High School in Los Angeles with LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (also killed in the attacks).
As far as cable is concerned, with CNN's Atlanta headquarters and The Weather Channel gone due to the nuclear attack there, CNN had to quickly switch to their studios in New York City. MSNBC and Fox News Channel had to fill the void and almost 2 and one half years later, the September Attacks is still the No.1 story here in the United States.
Obviously, this all started to occur once electricity was restored which by the "Jericho" series timeline was by at the very latest late March, 2007, six months after the bombs.
It would be safe to presume that electricity was restored to the United States around the same time that it was for the Allied States.