@@gavinproduction7433 For anyone who hasn't seen them, the 2002 version after 9/11 from an old Pyburn (video production and graphic company) demo reel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZVTyCW_uAPg.html
I was about 9 or 10 years old when the fall network campaigns caught my heart. The "NBC US" and "CBS:Turn Us On" was when I knew my life would be in television. About 10 years after that, was cutting my first affiliate versions of "We've Got The Touch" in the Virgin Islands for WBNB-TV. Over the years wrote a few of these jingles and news themes as well. That said, **THIS** is the platinum standard of television image campaigns. I miss these things. Thanks for posting! -Matt Locker
I remember taking more of a liking to NBC around this time, CBS seemed to be the old persons channel...NBC was more young and hip and colorful. Seinfeld was starting to take hold of America, Must See TV etc
Eight years after the promos were released the World Trade Center collapsed. Seven years later Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and the beginning of the end for New York came upon us. Despite the city rebuilding enough to recover from the attacks the recovery of the city only lasted 18 years; its final collapse began in September 2019 as a result of massive debt problems. Five months later the coronavirus pandemic began and all Broadway shows ceased. The city is expected to be devastated by the upcoming climate crisis and this is going to be worse than anything the city ever experienced.
New York is strong never bet against the city, if it got through Covid I'm sure I'll get through Climate Change. Those are all exaggerations about New York and lower Manhattan become the Hudson River.
They were beautiful symbols. My dad worked in tower one. I remember the day he took me to work with him when I was five...1980. The night before, I couldn’t sleep from the excitement. The express elevators launched you like a rocket to the sky lobby. I remember the distinctive ding, ding, ding, ding sound the elevators made alerting you that your cab was about to arrive. Looking down from the 92nd floor, the cars looked like toys and the people, like ants. I was so proud that my dad worked in those buildings. Years after his company left the WTC, I was in Manhattan on a vacation and I visited them one last time, this time going to the observation deck. It was 9/6/2001. I had an strange feeling that day. Little did I know that tragedy was just days away. My dad died a couple of years ago but the WTC will always be associated with my memories of him.
