NBC's Tom Brokaw and ABC's Peter Jennings were on vacation The New York Daily News published a thinner-than-usual version for its Friday editions, which ran the headline "BLACKOUT" and devoted some 29 of 46 pages to coverage of the outage , about an hour west of Detroit, to set up shop in a hotel Partly as a result, ABC chose to broadcast its special report out of Washington with Ted Koppel as anchor Despite losing power at its New York headquarters, The Associated Press was able to maintain its news services by shifting some key operations to other bureaus Reporters and editors at The Associated Press in New York broke into emergency kits distributed in the wake of the Sept Rather, who worked from CBS' Manhattan studios, was the only one of the three top anchors on duty at the time of the blackout The paper's normal five sections were to be reduced to two, totaling 28 pages, Greenspon said The Detroit News also had no power, and planned to print an eight-page paper with no ads out of the Battle Creek Enquirer's printing plant, said Mark Silverman, publisher and editor Cameras trained on New York City's crowded streets played back live images of the thousands of workers walking home Telephone calls from The Associated Press did not go through to the New York Post Overseas, news of the blackout played almost continuously on Britain's 24-hours news stations, Sky and BBC News 24 Its printing plant in Queens was knocked out, so the paper planned a double run at its plant in Edison, N "The Associated Press continues to file its full news report in audio, video, text and photos," said AP President and chief executive Tom Curley "We decided what the front page story would be," said Edward Greenspon, editor in chief "This includes ongoing developments in the power crisis Fox News Channel continued to function from New York with backup power, said spokesman Rob Zimmerman He planned to use the Beacon-Journal's press to publish a 24-page paper with only eight pages of news Twenty-two shows ââ‚¬â€? 19 musicals and three plays ââ‚¬â€? went dark ABC, CBS and NBC all had backup power in place, and their news divisions began broadcasting the story shortly after the lights went out Newspapers Race to Print During Blackout Aug 15, 4:23 AM EST Using backup generators and other contingency plans, newspapers and television networks struggled to tell the story of the blackout while dealing with the same hardships as their consumers The Toronto Globe and Mail was conducting its front-page story meeting when the power went out But at the last minute, enough power was found to broadcast out of an inside studio " NBC had planned to sit Williams outside of its Rockefeller Center office and beam his image via satellite to California, and then across the country 11 terrorist attacks for tiny flashlights to illuminate laptop computer keyboards and telephones Backup generators were working in New York and the control room was functioning, but the network decided to go with a "more secure" operation in Washington, spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said He did not know why the paper's backup generators did not kick in The luckiest show in town was "Say Goodnight Gracie, which did not have a Thursday evening performance "It is only thanks to emergency generators and a whole lot of scrambling here that we are able to say this Thursday night, Good evening from NBC News headquarters in midtown Manhattan, where we are in the midst of what appears to be a colossal and history-making blackout," anchor Brian Williams said to open the "NBC Nightly News On Broadway, the show did not go on " Some services that normally are based in New York were rerouted to AP bureaus in cities not affected by the outage, including Washington, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Dallas In Cleveland, The Plain Dealer lost all power, and 15 reporters and editors were sent 25 miles south to the Akron Beacon-Journal, said Alex Machaskee, publisher and president "We do have a contingency plan, but in terms of a power outage like this, not really," said John X The paper sent staffers to Howell, Mich The newspaper prints at six plants across Canada, and only the one in Toronto went out Atlanta-based CNN and New Jersey-based MSNBC similarly were able to offer uninterrupted signals J Miller, public editor of the Detroit Free Press In New York, a backup diesel generator kept Dan Rather on the air at CBS News, and in Cleveland and Detroit, newspaper publishers turned to competitors for help The New York Times had auxiliary power at its 43rd Street headquarters, but was planning to reduce the size of Friday's paper, said spokeswoman Catherine Mathis Plans were much the same at the Free Press, which is run under a joint operating agreement with the News