What was the most compelling thing you've seen live on TV?
9/11? The marathon bombing?

Was just talking about this with the wife, for me it was the rescue of the chilean miners. Remember that? I almost had tears in my eyes as they brought those guys up and they met their families and waved their flags. Just awesome live tv.

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OJ and Marcus Allen and the Great White Bronco chase. Shit was still going down. It wasn't just aftermath coverage.

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9/11

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Marcus Allen? You mean Al Cowlings?

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I have no idea why I always thought that was Marcus Allen. Maybe he was one of OJ's friends or something.

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No murph intended but perhaps you should rethink what you called the most compelling thing you've seen on live TV if you got one of the major facts wrong.
Again, no murph intended. Not trying to be a dick.

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9/11 it seemed like I was watching it in a dream and that it could not be real.

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It was still a good watch but upon further thought the Indy Car race where Dan Wheldon was killed was probably more compelling. Watching the crash that killed him, watching the drivers losing it emotionally with no word on his condition and then finally getting word that he had passed.....and then having basically the driver's version of a funeral for him on the track with the 5 lap salute.

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First, thanks for not finding my response dickish, or at least not saying so...
Your second example sounds much better. Compelling, and rich.

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The live episode of 30 Rock.

9/11 or R. Bud.Dwyer( not really live tv per se but was still pretty cool to see on tape )

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I love this site and most of you make me laugh more than you know but unless you weren't around on 9/11, that has to be the only answer. It's mind boggling to me that other choices have been mentioned to the point where it's both pissing me off and bumming me out. And I don't know why it's evoking these emotions.

Yes Ed. No matter what else I ever saw nothing affected me as I watched 9/11 live. Good thing I was at home office that morning. I literally dropped from weak knees when the 1st tower went down. First plane hits and I am like wow someone really fucked up. 2nd goes in and I tell wife babe shit is going down. When that tower dropped tears and silence probably shocked.

Not related to TV but that week after the fighters stopped and no planes in the air at all. If you live in Chicago that silence is deafening.

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I can safely say it wasn't 9/11 because I didn't turn on a TV until 1:30 that day. I'd say watching Challenger blow up during school.

Yeah, there was nothing more shocking than 9/11. The entire day is still completely etched into my brain. I remember almost every moment of that day, almost down to the hour. Was in the shower listening to Mancow, Freak came on the air and said, "if you ever wanted to see what would happen when a plane hits a building, turn on CNN right now." I remember seeing the second plane hit. I remember calling my wife who happened to be at a meeting right by O'Hare at the time. I remember the drive vividly down 294. They were doing firefighter training by the airport so smoke was in the distance and I thought a plane crashed there as well. I remember watching the live feed at work as the buildings collapsed. I remember watching the news when I came home. I had started officially dating my wife on 9/11/94 (I waited the mandatory two days before calling her house and figured 9/11 was an easy anniversary date to remember). We had reservations for the Hancock restaurant (95th or whatever floor), but ended up at Club Lucky. We were basically the only one in the restaurant and we were watching the TV most of the time. Nothing can compare to that.

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I don't remember specifically at what point I began watching the TV, but the tower collapsing had to be the most intense video because it was so unexpected. 9/11 has to be in a category of its own.

Discovery channel put Hurricane Katrina no. 1. I didn't see it all live, but the footage afterwards was really unbelievable.

The coverage of the assassination of both Kennedys and the Oswald thing are at the top of the list for the older generation.

The OJ chase and trial was compelling for a long period of time over a couple months.

Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl has to be one of the top sports moments because of all the talk afterwards.

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The Apollo moon landing,
The Munich Hostage crisis,
Local Katrina coverage and
Election results in Nov. 2008 were each as(or more) compelling as(than)

9/11 regurgitations of the same 30 seconds of video.

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The Japanese Tsunami/Fukushima reactor. Seeing the people get washed away. Then, the blatant lying on the news coverage about the reactors. Watching NHK feed and other international sources was very interesting.

The best part is one of the camera crews had a straight on shot of the reactors when the top blew off of one of them. Then all the secondary reports of "hearing a possible explosion". Muthafucka, they got it on film!! Then the Japanese government randomly increasing the quarantine zone another five miles and pushing said camera crew off their vantage point.

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Sharknado

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Recently, the EF5 Moore, OK tornado. Saw the storm, rescues, subsequent recovery, and aftermath all as it happened. Probably the first time ever something like that happened for a tornado, let alone an EF5.

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9/11 by far.

But, the OJ thing I always remember. I was watching the police chase in a bar.

For the verdict, it was pre-internet in the ol' offices back in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time, and headed over to The Cactus Club (?) over on Wells to watch the verdict. You could barely get in the door there were so many people in there. Crazy. Probably the last major non-internet thing that I can remember.

The next would be The Starr Report and we were downloading that sucker off at 3k/second on AOL.

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I was a Highland Park, IL. letter carrier (mail man) and I remember going up to a porch with a clear door that you could directly see a TV through
when the whole Waco/David Koresh siege was happening live on CNN, 1993.
I was 19, and I stood on that porch probably longer than I should have, looking through the door at the TV.

9/11, obviously takes the cake.
My alarm was set, and instead of XRT, or whatever station I used to wake up to, I foggily heard "BREAKING NEWS".... turned on TV in my bedroom,
watched in horror, and cried all day, including at work.

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Kind of the opposite but due to varying levels of studying/partying, I was unaware that the Berlin Wall was being torn down until I saw the cover of Time magazine about a week later when I was walking through the library.

I was kind of surprised to see people destroying the Berlin Wall and thought maybe I should flip on the news every once in a while.

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I had the same thing going with Hurricane Katrina. I was at the peak of my drinking every single night phase and I didnt realize anything was going on until well after the damage was done.

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The Bartman game. That inning seemed to drag on for hours.

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9/11: My wife was told by her sister that a plane hit the Tower in NYC. I turned on the TV thinking it was some idiot in a Cesna. I think shortly before this the guy from the yankees crashed into some building in New York in a small aircraft. I was shocked like everyone else.

Coverage of Ronald Reagan getting shot was pretty disturbing.
The coverage of the Lady Di thing was shocking.

Sports wise:
The Russians cheating to beat the USA in basketball back in 1972,I think?
Miracle on Ice

But I remember taping the Tyson-Douglas fight. Now that was shocking!

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That was mostly Alou's hissy-fit.

Plus everyone felt it should have gone longer by having Dusty come out and talk to him.