September 11 TV shows on PBS, History and more
Remembrances of Sept. 11, 2001, are led, as always, by the morning's live memorial reading of victims' names at the World Trade Center site, generally televised on local broadcast channels (starting by 8 a.m. Wednesday).
Here are more 9/11 highlights appearing Wednesday:
PBS/13 "NOVA: Ground Zero Supertower" (9 p.m.)
History "9/11: The Days After" (8-10 a.m.), "Hotel Ground Zero" (10 a.m.), "The Man Who Predicted 9/11" (8 p.m. and midnight), "102 Minutes That Changed America/Witness to 9/11" (9-11 p.m., 1-3 a.m.), "The Miracle of Stairway B" (11 p.m. and 3 a.m.)
H2 "The Day the Towers Fell" (8 a.m. and 2 p.m.), "Grounded on 9/11" (9 a.m. and 3 p.m.), "Voices From Inside the Towers" (10 a.m.-noon, 4-6 p.m.), "9/11: State of Emergency" (noon-2 p.m., 6-8 p.m.)
Discovery "Attack on the Pentagon" (9 a.m.), "The Flight That Fought Back" (10 a.m.-noon), "9/11: The Towers and the Pentagon" (noon), "9/11: After the Towers Fell" (1 p.m.), Bin Laden programs (2-6 p.m.), "The 9/11 Tapes: Chaos in the Sky" (NEW THIS WEEK: 6 p.m.), "The 9/11 Surfer" (7 p.m.), "9/11 Firehouse" (NEW: 8 p.m. and 1 a.m.)
Smithsonian "9/11: The Heartland Tapes" (7 a.m., 11 a.m., 6 p.m., 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.), "9/11: Stories in Fragments" (10 a.m., 7 p.m.), "9/11: Day That Changed the World" (noon, 8 and 11 p.m.)
NatGeo "9/11: Voices From the Air" (7 p.m. and 2 a.m.), "George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview" (8 p.m. and 1 a.m.), "9/11: Where Were You?" (9 and 11 p.m.), "Witness: DC 9/11" (10 p.m. and midnight)
Destination America "Zero Hour: Final Moments of Flight 11" (8 a.m.), "9/11: Surviving the Impact" (9 a.m.); "Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers" (10 a.m.).
HBO Baseball's role in "Nine Innings From Ground Zero" (9 a.m., HBO; also airs 12:30 p.m. on MLB Network)