Matt Ackland - TVSpy http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy And Now The News... About Local News Copyright 2013 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:12:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 For Inaugural Ceremony, DC Stations Turn to National Coverage Following their respective morning newscasts, local stations in Washington, DC have traded local coverage for national coverage of President Obama’s ceremonial swearing-in ceremony.

Around 11amET Monday, all four DC stations — NBC O&O WRC, ABC affiliate WJLA, Fox O&O WTTG and CBS affiliate WUSA — began airing coverage provided by their respective affiliated networks. Brian Williams is anchoring on NBC, Scott Pelley on CBS, Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos on ABC, and Shepard Smith on Fox Broadcast Network. President Obama is expected to deliver his inaugural address at 12pmET.

At least one station, WTTG, will go back to local coverage for the parade. Maureen Umeh will anchor, with Brian Bolter, Shawn Yancy and Sue Palka at the Canadian Embassy, Matt Ackland on the Freedom Plaza and Bob Barnard along the parade route.

>Update: WUSA also returned briefly to local programming at 1pmET, turning it back over to CBS at 1:30pm. The station will have expanded newscasts this afternoon and evening.

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]]> Merrill Knox http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/for-inaugural-ceremony-dc-stations-turn-to-national-coverage_b77548#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/for-inaugural-ceremony-dc-stations-turn-to-national-coverage_b77548 http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/?p=77548 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:54:50 +0000