All three business networks will provide live coverage of tonight’s State of the Union speech and Republican response.

On Fox Business, Neil Cavuto will anchor beginning at 9pmET. Cavuto will be joined by Peter Barnes and Rich Edson from Washington, DC. John Stossel will host a special edition of “Stossel,” featuring a live studio audience, at 11pmET.

CNBC will have two hours of live coverage beginning at 9pmET. Carl Quintanilla will anchor, with chief Washington correspondent John Harwood reporting from DC.

Bloomberg TV’s coverage also kicks of at 9pmET. Trish Regan will anchor, joined by chief Washington correspondent Peter Cook and White House correspondent Hans Nichols.

President Obama is holding his first press conference in eight months, and the first since he won reelection 8 days ago. As we noted earlier, the networks are breaking into regular programming for the presser.

“I hear you have a few questions for me,” Obama said as he stepped up to the podium, before delivering a brief statement.

Pres Obama’s news conf comes 8 days after the election; GWBush waited 2 days; Clinton 3days; Reagan, the morning after.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) November 14, 2012

Among the likely topics of discussion are the Petraeus incident, his election win and the attack in Benghazi.

• The first question went to the AP, as is customary, which asked about national security as it relates to the Petraeus scandal.

• Question two went to CNN chief White House correspondent Jessia Yellin, who asked about the fiscal cliff as it related to tax cuts.

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Bloomberg TV is the latest network to slate 2012 convention coverage. Not surprisingly, its coverage will focus on economic issues, and will originate from the “Bloomberg Link” event space being set up in both Tampa and Charlotte.

Trish Regan will be the channel’s lead anchor for the conventions, while Charlie Rose will host his eponymous PBS and Bloomberg TV program nightly, in addition to his duties on “CBS This Morning.” Regan will anchor “Street Smart” every weekday from 3-5 PM, with nightly specials running from 9-10 PM each night, except the last night of each convention when it will run from 8-11 PM. The channel will also livestream its coverage online as well as events being held at the Bloomberg Link.

Bloomberg Washington editor Al Hunt, Bloomberg TV political analyst Matthew Dowd, Bloomberg View columnist Margaret Carlson, White House correspondents Hans Nichols and Julianna Goldman, along with chief Washington correspondent Peter Cook and Washington correspondent Meghan Hughes will all contribute to the channel’s coverage.

More information, after the jump.

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Voters in 10 states head to the polls tomorrow to weigh in on the next GOP Presidential candidate. Here’s the plan for Super Tuesday coverage on the broadcast and cable news and business networks.

The broadcast networks:

• “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams will helm a one-hour special on NBC News from 10-11pmET. Williams will also present live updates on the voting results between 7-10pmET as news dictates. “Nightly” will be updated for later feeds throughout the evening.
• Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulous will anchor special reports on ABC beginning at 7pmET. “World News” will also be updated for later feeds. At 11:35pmET, Terry Moran will anchor a special edition of “Nightline.”
• On CBS, Scott Pelley will provide live primetime updates throughout the night.
• Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff will anchor a live “PBS Newshour” at 11pmET.
• On FOX, Shepard Smith will anchor live updates from 8-11pmET.

The cable networks:

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The White House has announced Pres. Obama will hold a news conference at 11amET. Obama’s most recent news conference was July 15, during a week in which he had two press availabilities.

NBC News will provide a special report anchored by Brian Williams in Washington, DC. Williams is there for The Atlantic‘s Ideas Forum and was to interview VP Joe Biden. Instead, David Gregory will interview Biden. ABC News will produce a special report anchored by George Stephanopoulos in New York. And Bob Schieffer will anchor for CBS News from Washington, DC. Scott Pelley is returning from London this morning. He’d been reporting from Afghanistan earlier in the week and anchored CBS’s Steve Jobs special report from London at 12:46amBST/7:46pmEDT.

> Update: Obama made a 7-minute statement, then took questions:
First question to Ben Feller of the Associated Press.
Second question to Chuck Todd of NBC News.
Third question to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times.
Fourth question to Jake Tapper of ABC News.
Fifth question from Hans Nichols of Bloomberg.
Sixth question to David Nakamura of The Washington Post.
Bill Plante from CBS News gets the seventh question.
Eighth question went to Matt Spetalnick of Reuters.
Ninth and final question (a 3-parter) went to Aamer Madhani of National Journal, who wasn’t expecting to be called on. “Caught you by surprise, huh?” said Obama.

It is a busy week for the White House press corp. President Obama will be holding his second press conference this week around 11 AM. Like the last presser on Monday, the topic du jour will be the economy and deficit talks with Republicans.

As usual, the cable news channels will be carrying it, but so will the broadcast networks.

Brian Williams will anchor a special report for NBC News. For ABC, George Stephanopoulos will anchor, joined by Jake Tapper at the White House. Scott Pelley will be anchoring a special report for CBS. Martha MacCallum will anchor for Fox.

Questions:

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Just after 1 PM ET, President Obama held a press conference at the White House where he addressed the results of yesterday’s elections, and the future of his agenda.

The big three broadcasters all took it live:

As did the big three cablers:
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Just after 11 AM this morning, President Obama made remarks about the economy and unemployment.

The four broadcast networks carried it live, with Harry Smith anchoring for CBS, George Stephanopoulos for ABC, Greg Jarrett for Fox and Matt Lauer for NBC:

Not surprisingly, the three cable news channels and the three business networks all carried the press conference as well.

Which TV news reporters got to ask questions?

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Bloomberg, CNBC, and Fox Business have started to release their early plans for covering the G-20 summit that will bring together leaders from 19 of the world’s largest economies (plus the EU) next week. Festivities start next Thursday in the unrelentingly majesty of Pittsburgh, PA.

	Bloomberg anchor Peter Cook and reporter Hans Nichols will be in Pittsburgh reporting live on Thursday and Friday.
	On CNBC, John Harwood will report live during “Business Day” programming. “Squawk Box” will be hosted by Carl Quintanilla live on Thursday and Friday from Alcoa headquarters in Pittsburgh and World Bank President Robert Zoellick and Canadian PM Stephen Harper are set to appear.
	Senior Washington Correspondent Peter Barnes will be reporting live in Pittsburgh from the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on Thursday and Friday.

It’s still early in the planning process, so TVNewser will update/revisit these as the forum approaches and more information is solidified.

> ABC’s Charlie Gibson anchors World News from London Tuesday-Thursday. Correspondents Jake Tapper, Jim Sciutto, Yunji de Nies will report from the G20 summit as well. ABC News Radio’s Ann Compton will be traveling with Pres. Obama.

> Katie Couric anchors CBS Evening News from London Tuesday-Thursday. Other correspondents will contribute from London for CBS’ “The Global Challenge: Recession to Recovery,” coverage as well.

> Francine Lacqua and Peter Cook anchor from the Summit for Bloomberg TV. Hans Nichols travels with Pres. Obama and Ryan Chicote follows onto the NATO summit.

• Earlier: NBC’s G20 coverage