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 | | Channel 13's transmitter facilities, including a newly installed digital transmission system, were destroyed on September 11, 2001, when airplanes hijacked by terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center towers. |
 | | Gerald (Rod) Coppola, Channel 13's head transmitter engineer, was among those who perished when the north tower collaped. |
 | | For the next ten months WNYE-TV, headquartered in Brooklyn, became WNET's surrogate transmitter and airwave (for those without cable, repeats of WNET prime-time schedules were screened on WNYE). |
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