Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Big TV Coverage of the Inauguration


All you'll need to do is turn on the TV (see a round up of other televised events at my everything inauguration page) Oprah will be broadcasting live from Washington D.C. and so will everyone else.
ABC will broadcast “The Neighborhood Ball: An Inauguration Celebration,” on Jan. 20. The Neighborhood Ball is Obama's first ball of the evening.
Washington.org: The Oprah Winfrey Show - SOLD OUT -John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, DC)
According to Harpo Productions, Winfrey will host a live episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" from the Kennedy Center Opera House on Jan. 19, the day before Barack Obama takes the presidential oath of office. At least two shows are planned in DC, the second on Wednesday.
It will be All Obama All Day.
NYT: ...David Bohrman, the Washington bureau chief for CNN, said the network’s coverage would be longer and more exhaustive than in previous years. “People around the world are going to watch this event,” he said.

As in previous years, the coverage on ABC, CBS, NBC and the cable news networks will run from 10 a.m. until the early evening. The day will be bookended with special editions of morning shows and special reports in prime time. Fox will offer a feed of the Fox News Channel to its affiliates.

Networks also see entertainment value in the inauguration week. HBO will be the exclusive broadcaster of an “opening celebration” on Sunday, Jan. 18, the inaugural committee said on Tuesday. That concert event will be available to all cable subscribers. Such a deal is not unprecedented: in 1993, for instance, HBO paid to carry part of a Sunday concert celebrating Bill Clinton’s first inauguration.