Here's a new link to video footage (not live) of the fire at Universal Studios.
Someone was just on the radio saying — I'm not sure who it was or how sure they are — that nothing irreplaceable is being lost in the film or video vaults. That's probably true but there was a time when it might not have been. In the age of digital transfers and home video, it's a lot harder to lose the only copy or copies of an old movie or TV show.
In the meantime, the KNBC TV "live feed" channel in Los Angeles has stopped running old DIC cartoons and is now running an infomercial with Jane Seymour selling skin cream. It's been pointed out to me that there's a good reason why they're airing Archie's Weird Mysteries and shows like that. The F.C.C. still has that requirement that stations must broadcast X hours per week of shows for children. It doesn't matter if they air them on a sub-channel nobody watches but putting those cartoons on fulfills the rule.
So that's why they're on. Still, I think that if you have a channel that's there to present raw news footage of local interest and you have raw news footage of something like this, you might decide the cartoons can run later. Or maybe even bump the Jane Seymour infomercial.