TV One to Air Live Coverage of Michael Jackson Memorial Service Beginning at 1 PM...
A memorial service for Michael Jackson will take place Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
At 12 days and counting, the length of coverage has already run longer than anyone's idea of a state funeral. Tuesday, the degree of saturation of TV coverage on the death of Michael Jackson reaches the boiling point.
All of the major networks and cable channels will be offering live coverage of the Jackson memorial service starting at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Staples center in Los Angeles.
NBC had looked as if it would skip live coverage and go only with a one-hour prime-time special Tuesday night. But network executives changed their plans Sunday, and announced that NBC will join ABC and CBS in covering the memorial service live.
TV One, the Maryland-based channel that targets African-American viewers, will offer live coverage at 1 p.m., with repeats at 8 and 11 p.m.. Art Fennell and Jacque Reed, who anchored TV One's Democratic Convention and election night coverage last year, will lead the coverage.
E! and TV Guide, both entertainment channels, will also be carrying the memorial service live starting at 1 p.m.
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