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ABC TV will broadcast live coverage of the Jackson memorial service at 1pmET/10amPT on Tuesday. Charlie Gibson will anchor. More details about guests, correspondents and individual show coverage will come out on Monday. ABC is calling their coverage "Remembering Michael Jackson".

> Update: ABC's early morning news broadcasts will be co-anchored out of Los Angeles. Jeremy Hubbard will anchor from LA for World News Now and America This Morning on Tuesday and Wednesday morning.

> Earlier: CBS News Plans... Fox News Plans...

While several news anchors are heading to Los Angeles for coverage of you know what, "Good Morning America" Weekend is keeping Independence Day in mind.

Kate Snow and Marysol Castro will report live from two of the country's most historic landmarks tomorrow.

Snow will bring viewers live inside the crown of the Statue of Liberty as the landmark re-opens to the public for the first time since 9/11. Meanwhile, Weather and features correspondent, Marysol Castro, will report live from the very spot where the Declaration of Independence was adopted -- Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA.

Anchor Bill Weir and news anchor Ron Claiborne will hold down the fort in Times Square tomorrow morning.

Buoyed by their health care special with Pres. Obama and two days of coverage on the death of Michael Jackson ABC's "Nightline" was #1 among Total Viewers last week, outperforming NBC's "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" and CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman." Conan was still tops in younger viewers.

The last time "Nightline" bested both CBS and NBC among Total Viewers was election week, November 2008. The last time "The Tonight Show" was not the number one program at 11:35pm two weeks in a row, not including the writers' strike in 2007, was in 1996, when "Nightline" placed first.

For the week of June 22, 2009:

On his ABCNews.com blog Monday, John Stossel wrote, "I am sick of the coverage of Michael Jackson." Turns out he's sick of the coverage due in part because a 5-minute piece he had produced on the health care plan was bumped from Friday's "20/20." In it's place: another story on Jackson. "I hate it that ABC didn't run my piece," he continues.

But before you think Stossel went rogue on the blog, ABC News tells us all posts from staffers are vetted and approved before publishing.

Of the story swap-out, ABC News SVP Jeffrey Schneider tells the NYPost the Jackson story, "continues to develop hour by hour and day by day. There's enormous interest in it."

Stossel's health care piece is now set to run on the July 17 edition of "20/20."

Who says there's no world news on World News?

Today, ABC's Jeffrey Kofman, who covers Latin America for the network, walked right up to the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to get an interview with the new, but internationally unrecognized, president Roberto Micheletti. All Kofman had to do was go to the palace, show his ID and about five minutes later, he entered the inner sanctum and sat down for an interview with Micheletti, his first with an American network.

Micheletti told Kofman he'd like to be called "Mr. President."

"You have to because I am the President," he said, adding, "or you can call me Roberto if you want."

Here's Kofman's World News report...

"Nightline," which devoted their Friday show to Michael Jackson, outperformed both CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" and NBC's "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien," according to Nielsen fast affiliate time period data. Friday marked the third night in a row Nightline came in first in Total Viewers.

Nightline - 4.193M Total Viewers

Tonight Show - 3.718M

Late Show - 3.089M

ABC News will air a special edition of "20/20" - "Michael Jackson: The Man and His Music" at 9pmET/PT anchored by Elizabeth Vargas. "20/20" will also air at its regular time, 10pmET/PT which will include more reporting on the life and death of Michael Jackson.

Last night's "Nightline" anchored by Martin Bashir with coverage on the death of Michael Jackson was seen by 5.26 million Total Viewers, outdrawing David Letterman's 4.36 million on CBS and Conan O'Brien's 3.94 million on NBC.

Excerpts from two reviews of Wednesday night's ABC News special "Questions for the President: Prescription for America":

• The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz says that, despite being criticized "as an Obama 'infomercial' before a single moment had aired...it was a pretty good look at a complicated issue."

But Kurtz does have his "quibbles. The president was allowed to give long answers, with [Charles] Gibson interrupting only a couple times." And "I would have included a Republican member of Congress" on the program.

• The Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik writes: "Let's make one thing clear right from the start: ABC News did not give President Barack Obama a free pass in its prime-time special."

But, he says, "Obama had his way from early morning to late night on ABC Wednesday to push his agenda for massive social change on healthcare. In short, he owned ABC's airwaves."

Comments made by ABC News "Nightline" anchor Terry Moran have drawn the outrage of some of his co-workers. In the hours after the death of Farrah Fawcett, Moran added his thoughts to an email thread that was making its way around ABC News -- a common practice when a big news story breaks. Here's what he wrote:

One final, and perhaps very sad, note:

According to the American Cancer Society, the leading cause of anal cancer (the kind that killed Farrah Fawcett) is the human papilloma virus (HPV), the same virus that is thought to cause most cervical cancers. Twenty million Americans are currently infected with HPV, with more than six million new infections every year.

It is fair to say (and sad to say) that Farrah Fawcett, an American pin-up icon and sex symbol of the first post-sexual revolution generation, most likely died as a result of a acquiring a sexually transmitted disease.

"What I did was put out some ideas about a disease that is on the rise and I did it in a way that drew a lot of response," Moran explained to TVNewser. "Some people were very angry. Some people were very insightful. Some were both."

"I wanted to raise some issues about a disease and I did it in a very stupid way," he says.

ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider adds, "Terry is one of the smartest guys in the whole building. But even he can misfire occasionally. Just because someone occasionally misfires doesn't mean we don't want or expect a really intense discussion of whatever issue is out there."

Moran says what he wrote today won't keep him from interjecting in the future: "They say engineers learn far more from their mistakes than they do from their successes," he says.