In 2002 , KOMU won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for maintaining its longstanding policy banning political symbols on-air . The station had come under considerable government and popular pressure to allow its anchors and reporters to wear American flag lapels on-air in the aftermath of the September 11 , 2001 attacks . In December 2005 , the station added NBC Weather Plus to a new second digital subchannel and live streaming video on its website . This was added to Mediacom digital systems on January 12 , 2007 . After the national service shut down on December 1 , 2008 , it was replaced with Universal Sports but was not added to other digital cable systems . In 2011 , Universal Sports was dropped from subchannel 8.2
September 11 , 2001 attacks
September 11 attacks
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