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01.20.09

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, January 20, 2009, and this is your first early morning briefing.  And as always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here .

Today’s Coverage of Inauguration 2009: a non-exhaustive briefing of most of the extensive coverage via television, radio, online and extra outlets (all times listed below are EST):

Television: All the major broadcast and cable networks will carry the swearing-in ceremony live, beginning at 1130a from the United States Capitol, West Front. Many will continue with coverage of the afternoon Inaugural Parade along Pennsylvania Avenue starting at approximately 230p, in addition to primetime specials and coverage of the inaugural balls.

Some notable coverage and primetime inauguration specials:

• ABC’s coverage begins at 7a with a three-hour Good Morning America followed by live coverage of the inauguration ceremony at 10a anchored by Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos. Later tonight, ABC broadcasts the first-ever Neighborhood Inaugural Ball with a live special The Neighborhood Ball: An Inauguration Celebration at 8p including the President and First Lady’s first dance, the President’s evening speech and celebrity performances. Afterwards, the network will broadcast an ABC News Special A Moment in History: The Inauguration of Barack Obama at 10p.
• Azteca America has a special one-hour live broadcast today under the title Obama; Era del Cambio beginning at 12p. Washington correspondent Armando Guzman will host the show with Javier Alatorre, the national anchor for TV Azteca’s network news broadcast in Mexico.
• BBC America and BBC World News highlights live coverage from 11a to 4p, with Huw Edwards and Matt Frei anchoring from Capitol Hill along with several BBC News correspondents reporting around Washington, D.C., one correspondent reporting from Obama’s ancestral hometown in Kenya, another reporting from Birmingham, AL and one in London. Later tonight, BBC World News America will offer two special editions at 7p and 10p featuring contributing analyst, Ted Koppel.
• BET presents all-day specials and coverage beginning early this morning and at 11a to 4p, BET News will offer live coverage of the major inauguration events. Between 4p and 8p, BET will rebroadcast Barack Obama’s election night victory speech, two BET News specials Journey to the White House and The First Black President as well as a special edition of 106 & Park. Then at 8p, Yes We Will!: BET’s Inauguration Special will showcase celebrity performances during the one-hour special. BET News will follow with two half-hour specials at 9p leading into a rebroadcast of Yes We Will!: BET’s Inauguration Special at 10p.
• At 9p, CBS scheduled the CBS News Special Dream Big Dream: The Inauguration of Barack Obama, the 44^th President of the United States.
• ESPN gets in the action as SportsCenter offers live coverage of the swearing-in ceremony at 1130a with Jeremy Schaap reporting. Beginning at 1p, ESPN Classic serves up a 10-hour marathon of Breaking Barriers featuring profiles of history-making African-American athletes.
• MTV highlights the special MTV’s Be the Change: Live from the Inaugural at 10p.
• Also at 10p, NBC scheduled a special inauguration edition of Dateline NBC.
• PBS features Jim Lehrer anchoring inauguration coverage with analysis from Mark Shields and David Brooks at 11a. In primetime, Frontline presents the one-hour Dreams of Obama at 9p. Also on PBS stations, inauguration coverage will be featured on Nightly Business Report at 630p, on Tavis Smiley at 11p and Charlie Rose (check local listings for all PBS shows).
• TV5Monde USA airs a live two-hour special at 11a followed by commentary from Paris.
• TV One focuses on 24 hours of inauguration programming beginning at 7a with specials paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King and Barack and Michelle Obama. At 10a, TV One’s live coverage begins with The Inauguration of Barack Obama: Our History, Our Time from the West Front of the U.S. Capitol. More live coverage will happen throughout the day from multiple cameras capturing President and Mrs. Bush leaving the White House to the presidential parade. Then from 6p to 10p, Roland Martin will host specials about President Obama from past interviews to Believe: The Barack Obama Story and more. TV One Live: The Presidential Galas, co-anchored by Jacque Reid and Jamal Simmons will kick off from 10p to midnight, taking a look at all the inaugural balls. TV One will offer a final wrap-up of the day’s events from midnight to 1a. Previous interviews with Barack and Michelle Obama and inauguration coverage will be rebroadcast overnight from 1a to 7a.

Radio: All National Public Radio (NPR) station affiliates will carry the swearing-in ceremony live at 1130a with video provided from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. At 230p, live coverage of the Inaugural Parade with video by the AP and audio by NPR. 

Streaming Online: The Presidential Inauguration Committee website will provide a live stream of the ceremony at pic2009.org. (Note: you will need to have installed Microsoft’s Silverlight on your computer to watch this stream.) Other major news outlets and websites will offer live streaming video and audio of the ceremony: ABC News, C-SPAN, CBS News, CNN Live, Fox News, NBC News via MSNBC, New York Times, PBS and Terra will have both Spanish and English webcasts.

• ABCNEWS.com will have live streaming coverage from 1130a to 130p embedded directly on the homepage. Furthermore, ABC’s digital network, ABC News NOW will have live coverage co-anchored by Sam Donaldson and Rick Klein from 9a to 11p.
• In addition, Hulu will offer live streaming of the inauguration for two hours starting at 12p from Washington, D.C. The live stream will be provided by FOX Broadcast. Afterwards, Hulu will offer on-demand access to the inauguration and more including an Obama Presidency section and a collection of past presidential inauguration speeches going back to William McKinley.
• Comcast Corporation and Univision Communications Inc. will jointly offer Spanish-language coverage of the President Obama’s Inaugural Address via Comcast’s VOD service. The Address will be available starting this afternoon on Comcast On Demand, Channel 1 following the live broadcast on the Univision Network.

Movie Theaters: Many movie theater chains will be showing the inauguration and if you live in one of these cities, you can get a free ticket: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Hartford-New Haven, Houston, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, New York, Orlando, Phoenix, Providence, San Diego, Seattle, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., and West Palm. UltraStar Cinemas will be showing the inauguration at selected locations in Arizona and California. Additionally, MSNBC made a deal with Screenvision, the theater advertising network to have its live coverage carried via closed-circuit for free in selected theaters in 27 major cities from 11a to 3p EST. MSNBC’s live coverage will also be simulcast in 650 Starbucks in New York, San Francisco and Seattle from 10a to 2p EST.

Bob May, 69, best known as the robot sidekick in the 1960s television series Lost in Space died Sunday of congestive heart failure. Even though May didn’t provide the voice of the robot, the phrase uttered by the loyal robot “Danger, Will Robinson” became a nationally-known catch phrase. During his career, May appeared in a variety of films and TV shows such as McHale’s Navy and The Red Skelton Show. He was also an active stuntman in the 1950s and 60s. May is survived by his wife, two children and four grandchildren. Funeral services are pending.

Gospel Music Channel’s next edition of its biography series Faith & Fame will feature Christian music star Jeremy Camp. The program will air this Saturday at 930p with encores on Sunday at 130a and 1p.

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A trio of actors joined the cast of CBS comedy pilot The Karenskys from Linwood Boomer (creator of Malcolm in the Middle), per THR. The plot is about Emily Atwood (Sasha Alexander) who returns to her hometown because of her husband’s job relocation and is reunited with her zany family. Mather Zickel will play Emily’s husband Bill Atwood who is put off by her family; Annie Potts will play Pearl Karensky, Emily’s happy yet overly religious mother; and Jack Thompson will play Max Karensky, Emily’s tough and tight-fisted father. The project is produced by Universal Media Studios and BermanBraun.

ABC is developing a new comedy about a slacker from Ricky Blitt (Family Guy), reports Variety. ABC handed a put pilot commitment to the project, formerly called Threesome, about a thirtysomething guy who is torn between his girlfriend and his slacker best friend.

Chicago-based Towers Productions, Inc., producer of factual and entertainment content, is currently working on thirty hours of original content for several networks under the banner of Discovery Communications. For Discovery Channel, projects include two one-hour specials called Secret America; a one-hour special The Science of Interrogation (wt); and a two-hour program called Most Wanted. For ID (Investigation Discovery), Towers is now in production on Undercover: Double Life a 13-hour series about the lives of undercover agents schedule to premiere first quarter 2009. In addition, Towers produced Animal Witness which premiered on Animal Planet last August encompassing twenty 30m episodes about animals and the use of DNA to solve crimes.

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  Yesterday we provided links to some of the places where you can view today’s historic activities. (It turns out the official Presidential Inaugural Committee will be also be streaming the swearing-in ceremony, using Microsoft’s Silverlight.) But the Inauguration of Barack Obama will not only be available to watch passively on multiple platforms – it will likely be remembered as a time when more Americans than ever before turned to digital tools to share the moment. Twitter, which is teaming with Current again to integrate microblog entries on television, says it is doubling its capacity to handle the extra traffic. Wireless networks spent heavily to beef up coverage in the D.C. area. Carriers’ advice to subscribers is to text instead of calling if you’re at the event – text packets clog up the network far less than voice packets.  Full edition: CYN DIGITAL.

CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Cartoon Network France and Cartoon Network Italy and Spain, have pre-bought the new preschool-aimed flash and CGI animated series Commander Clark (52×13), which heads into production this month at Paris-based GO-N Productions.  Based on an idea from Go-N’s Eric Garnet and Anne de Galard, Commander Clark is penned by Ian Carney (Shawn the Sheep, Frankenstein Cat).  The series comes from Go-N Productions with the participation of France 5 and Cartoon Network France. Full edition: CYN KIDS.

Data for Friday, January 16 is delayed until tomorrow due to the holiday.

Izabella Wiley advanced to SVP/GM with MTV Networks, Poland, part of MTV Networks International’s Emerging Markets group. Izabella will manage MTVNI’s licensee activities in the Ukraine and the Baltic region across all media platforms. Additionally, she will supervise MTV Networks Poland’s roster of channels including Polish-language versions of MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, Comedy Central, VIVA and more. Based in Warsaw, Izabella will continue to report to Bhavneet Singh, Managing Director/EVP, Emerging Networks, MTVNI.

Tribune Interactive named Ellen Glassberg as VP/Classified and Telesales Business Development. Ellen will be in charge of sales and the development of all classified advertising as well as telesales across the company. Ellen joins from the Chicago Tribune Media Group where she was Director/Recruitment and Call Center Sales.

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This day in History:  Born on this day: George Burns (1896), Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin (1930), Arte Johnson (1934), David Lynch (1946), Bill Maher (1956)

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: Who is the only actor to win an Emmy for acting, writing and directing for the same series?  ALAN ALDA (M*A*S*H)  Kudos to:Terrence Moss-Advanced Results Marketing/Marlboro, MA; Andrew Goldman-HBO/NY; Alfred Castellanos/NY; Chris Claro/Westbury, NY; RT Harris-OSi/Kansas City, MO; Kimmi Ray-Garman Productions, LLC/Oklahoma City, OK; Brian Nyenhuis-SpotPlus/Dallas; Zen Cymbala-NBC Universal Television Networks/Chicago; George NeJame/LA; Cheryl Fellows-Big Green Company, Inc./Boulder, CO; Dorian Hannaway-Hannaway We Go!/LA; Emme Tyler-World by the Tail Productions/Beverly Hills

Today’s Trivia Question: On what comedy series could you find a colorful group of characters including Birchum, Elmer Higgins, Hadassah Guberman and Niles Standish? (Email
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2009

ABC: Inauguration Celebration, A Moment in History: The Inauguration of Barack Obama
AZTECA: Lo Que Callamos Las Mujeres Edicion Especial, Los 25 Mas, Al Extremo
CBS: NCIS [r], Dream Big Dream: The Inauguration of Barack Obama, the 44^th President of the United States
CW: 90210, Privileged
FOX: American Idol, Fringe
ION: Boston Legal, Boston Legal, Boston Legal
MNT: Street Patrol [r], Street Patrol [r], Vice Squad, Vice Squad [r]
NBC: The Biggest Loser 7, The Inauguration of Barack Obama
PBS: Nova, Frontline, Independent Lens [r]
TELE: Dona Barbara, El Rostro de Analia, Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso
UNIV: Cuidado con el Angel, Fuego en la Sangre, Aqui y Ahora

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