I think 4 think covered the Shuttle launch themselves, or they tossed to CBS later on not sure I tuned them in for 5 seconds and saw their graphics. WTVJ used NBC and WPLG used ABC at 10:30am. 7 of course relied on themselves as usual breaking in at 10:30am as well. Which wasn’t a bad thing to do at all.
I watched MSNBC and these talking heads during the actual launch were so annoying, Brian Williams and this other guy talking over the NASA commentor and shuttle crew the whole time. I did record WSVN on the DVR expecting a more clear uninterrupted coverage and I was right.
They stopped talking about 2 minutes before the lunch and went about 12 minutes overall with no interference from anyone, just pure NASA-TV feed.
You can see the complete video of 7′s shuttle coverage here and click on Discovery: Return to Flight
10′s .com is so full of ads
Eeesh …. I just loaded WPLG’s site using Internet Explorer and in addition to allt he clutter and ads has now resorted to some very annoying overlay flash ads that range from the barely there on top of the text to on-the-whole-page kind that you have to wait to load and play itself out just so you can click on anything.
They claim to be #1 based on what I don’t know, but I do know I’ll stick to using Firefox when going to that end of the web. The flash overlay ads don’t load in Firefox, yay!