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Broadcast networks again broke into regular programming with images of smoke rising in the skies over Tel Aviv, after Iran launched retaliatory attacks on Israel for its strikes on nuclear facilities and top military leaders.

ABC News broke into regular programming, with Diane Macedo anchoring, and CBS News provided a special report with John Dickerson anchoring. Cable news networks and broadcast streaming channels quickly focused their coverage on the attacks.

Israel defense forces said that “all of Israel is under fire as Iran fires projectiles,” and later reported a second round featuring dozens of additional missiles.

The Idf said in an announcement, “Every civilian must be aware of the most protected space in their area. When an alert is received, you must enter the protected space and remain there until further notice.”

Previously: Donald Trump once again chatted by phone with news anchors, this time to express support for Israel’s military strikes on Iran.

Former President of the United States Jimmy Carter’s funeral service is taking place today.

The late 39th President’s casket arrived in Washington D.C. on Tuesday (January 6), followed by a procession to the U.S. Capitol, the Rotunda service and the start of the lying in state.

The national day of mourning began on Thursday (January 9) as U.S. officials, loved ones and members of the public say their final goodbyes to Jimmy Carter, who will be buried beside his wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter, at the home they built in Plains, Georgia.

He will be honored with two funeral services: one in Washington, D.C., and one in his small hometown.

Several news networks will be covering the Washington, D.C. ceremony, and there is also a way to watch via livestream.

Keep reading to find out more…

ABC‘s ABC News Live First will begin coverage...

Former president Jimmy Carter’s funeral services involved a few steps that led up to Thursday, Jan. 9. Following a funeral in his home state of Georgia Jan. 4, the 39th President of the United States’ casket arrived in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, Jan. 7 followed by a procession to the U.S. Capitol, the Rotunda service and the start of the lying in state.

Several main news networks will provide coverage of the events Thursday, as they have of the week’s previous moments and transport. Those schedules are outlined below. Find also below, a link to livestream the funeral service via PBS:

ABC

“ABC News Live First” Jan. 9 will begin coverage with anchor Diane Macedo at 8 a.m. Est for the Capitol Hill procession. There will then be a simulcast of network-wide coverage. ABC News coverage has been available to watch on ABC News Live, Disney+ and Hulu.

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There’s a little election this week that you might have heard about.

The early votes are in and the polls are open for the 2024 presidential showdown between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump. Now we pivot to The Coverage.

There’s no shortage of options for how to watch Election Day – and Night, and probably Week – unfold on broadcast and cable TV and streaming services beginning Tuesday. See a rundown of the various networks and platforms’ plans below.

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Along with the usual suspects of network news divisions, cable news pundits, pubcaster PBS and political outlet C-span comes a new player: Amazon’s Prime Video, which features former NBC News and MSNBC mainstay Brian Williams in his return to the anchor chair.

So read on to decide on how to watch America decide.

Networks focused coverage throughout the afternoon today on the latest school shooting, this time in Winder, Ga, where a 14-year-old is in custody. Officials said that two students and two teachers were killed, and nine are in local hospitals.

Colt Gray, a student at the school, Apalachee High School, will be charged with murder and tried as an adult, Chris Hosey of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation told reporters.

Authorities received a call at about 10:20 a.m. Et about reports of an active shooter and law enforcement was on the scene within minutes, Hosey said. Two school resource officers encountered the shooter soon after the report went out, he said, and once officers encountered Gray, he immediately surrendered.

“The priority right now for us within this investigation is to gather all the facts, and make sure we’re accurate with it, because this is a murder investigation,” he said.

On Tuesday, September 3, GMA3: What You Need to Know welcomes author RoseMarie Terenzio, ABC News Live anchor Diane Macedo, and lifestyle expert Milly Almodovar to the show. RoseMarie Terenzio, a former assistant to John F. Kennedy Jr., will discuss her book, JFK Jr., which offers a personal account of her time working with Kennedy […]

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Kim Godwin, the ABC News president who was the first Black woman to run a broadcast network news operation, is leaving the Disney unit amid increasing concern about the way she was managing the home of shows like “Good Morning America” and “World News Tonight.”

Godwin told staffers in a memo Sunday that she planned to “retire from broadcast journalism.” Her command had come under increasing scrutiny since a restructuring of ABC News and Disney’s ABC stations had her reporting directly to Debra OConnell, a Disney business veteran who is seen as a valued operator at the company. OConnell will lead ABC News for the foreseeable future, she told employees Sunday evening.

A Disney spokesperson declined to make executives available for additional comment or to respond to a query about what changes Godwin’s exit might mean for the executive’s immediate direct reports or the management of individual ABC News programs.

ABC News Live will debut new hours of weekday programming on Monday, with Kayna Whitworth anchoring from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Et.

Her show will be the rare national newscast based in Los Angeles, in what the network is billing as an “outside the Beltway” focus on politics for the 2024 election cycle. She also will lead in to its flagship program, Prime with Linsey Davis.

ABC News Live launched in 2018, as all the broadcast networks now have their own streaming news services, with CBS News Streaming and NBC News Now also offering a lineup of original programming.

Other ABC News Now programming is anchored by Kyra Phillips and Diane Macedo.

NBC News Now launched an L.A.-based newscast, Stay Tuned Now, hosted by Gadi Schwartz, in March.

ABC News Live, the network news division’s streaming offering, is expanding its lineup in a fresh push for consumers seeking live news outside of the traditional TV ecosystem.

ABC says that correspondent Kayna Whitworth will join the lineup from 5-7 p.m. beginning next week, creating a live news lineup that starts in the mornings with Diane Macedo, continues in the afternoons with Kyra Phillips and then Whitworth, and is capped off in the evening with Linsey Davis (ABC News Live had been in tape during those hours before).

“People are connecting with Linsey, Kyra, Diane and Kayna because collectively they bring more than 80 years of valuable and unique journalistic experience to the streaming network,” ABC News president Kim Godwin says. “Add in their passion, curiosity, authenticity and relatability, and they are just compelling to watch. The entire ABC News Live team is meeting the moment with in-depth, straightforward...

When broadcast networks preempt primetime programming for the midterms Tuesday, they will be joining up with their streaming channels, all of which will have been well into their daylong coverage of the vote.

This cycle, all of the legacy networks are looking at the midterms as a key opportunity for ABC News Live, CBS News Streaming and NBC News Now, capitalizing on an expected audience uptick to try to make the channels a part of viewers’ regular news diet.

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As such, all of the channels are emphasizing the integration with the broadcast part of the business,...

TV news is latching on to an old standby to help it gain attention in a new — and often less flashy — news cycle.

Coverage of the court trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with causing the death of George Floyd, will surface Monday across many mainstream TV outlets. Some of it will be gavel-to-gavel, the sort of thing that echoes the news media’s fascination with the O.J. Simpson murder trial of 1995.

Many TV-news outlets have seen key ratings tumble as the nation emerges from the coronavirus pandemic and in the wake of the end of President Donald Trump’s term in office. The looming trial could serve as new means of winning audiences. “There’s always pressure in television news to find stories that bring in ratings, but especially now because viewer numbers have dropped so much without Trump in the White House,” says Mark Feldstein,...

This is it, America – Election Day 2020. With President Donald Trump, his Democratic challenger Joe Biden and so many others declaring this “the most important election of our lifetimes,” it’s time for the final votes to be cast and tallied. Deadline will provide live coverage all day – and, likely, night – long, and here is a rundown of how to watch as the historic day unfolds.

You can keep abreast of called states with the Electoral Map on our homepage, and watch our poll closing times to get a sense of where things stand at any given moment. There promises to be no shortage of drama, along with the potential for a 2016-esque GOP surprise or a 2018-like blue wave. But prognosticators gonna prognosticate, while Americans await their new president.

If you haven’t voted yet, please do. Then follow all the action of the strangest election in the strangest year.

All three broadcast networks are planning new programming initiatives in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.

CBS News has created a voter integrity unit led by Major Garrett that will focus on concerns over casting ballots in the November election, with a series called America Decides: Counting Your Vote. The network also is planning a series on misinformation, with CBS News chief justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues leading the coverage. His reports will be a series called America Decides: Misinformation. The network also is launching a series, Every State Has A Story, featuring interviews with voters in swing states tied to the network’s Battleground Tracker.

NBC News unveiled a national polling average. In a collaboration with TargetSmart, the network also is doing an analysis of early voting nationally and in states where the information is available. Another tool, called Swing the Election, in collaboration with Cook Political Report,...

ABC News announced plans for its coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions, including one hour of primetime coverage on the broadcast network, and more extensive coverage on its streaming site ABC News Live.

The broadcast coverage from 10 Pm to 11 Pm Et each night, led by chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, is in line with recent cycles even though the conventions themselves will be almost all virtual, after Democrats scrapped nearly all events in Milwaukee and Republicans scaled back plans for Charlotte. The Democratic National Convention will start on Aug. 17; the Republican convention begins a week later, on Aug. 24.

Stephanopoulos, who will be in New York, will be joined by World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis.

ABC News coverage will begin at 7 Pm each night and run until 11 Pm Et. Davis will start it at 7 Pm Et on ABC News Live, and Stephanopoulos...

Exclusive: ABC News will present three days of special coverage to how the coronavirus has reflected, exposed or exacerbated racial, ethnic and socioeconomic divides.

Starting on Wednesday, the reports, titled Pandemic — A Nation Divided, will appear across all of the network’s platforms. The series is rooted in statistics showing a disproportionate impact of the virus on African Americans and Latinos and other communities. For instance, in New York City, African Americans are twice as likely to die of the virus, according to the network. In Washington, D.C., Latinos have been seven times more likely to be infected than white residents.

Marie Nelson, the senior vice president of integrated content strategy, said that “as the Covid-19 global pandemic became a black, brown and working class epidemic in America, we quickly recognized there was an urgent need to tell more stories from these communities.” She said that the project was...

ABC News announced on Monday that Deirdre Bolton will join its team covering the coronavirus pandemic and its economic impact. Bolton previously worked at Fox Business Network and Fox News. She will be based in New York as a correspondent.

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In an email to the news division, ABC News president James Goldston praised Bolton: “As an accomplished reporter, Deirdre is adept at translating complex financial concepts into understandable ideas and facts. She reported on some of the biggest stories over the past two decades. In 2018, Deirdre covered the North Korea-United States Singapore Summit and its economic implications for the Us and Asia. She reported live from the ground following the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, focusing on their economic effects, including what they meant for a country and region where tourism is a huge part of its Gdp.

Deirdre Bolton, who has for the past few years worked as an anchor at Fox Business Network, is joining ABC News as a New York-based business correspondent.

“As an accomplished reporter, Deirdre is adept at translating complex financial concepts into understandable ideas and facts,” said ABC News President James Goldston in a statement Monday. “. She reported on some of the biggest stories over the past two decades,” he added, including the 2018 summit between North Korea and the United States, and the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks. “During the 2007-2008 financial crisis, she provided straightforward explanations of the global financial meltdown daily and ways the audience could find much-needed help,” Goldston added.

Before moving to Fox Business Network, Bolton was an anchor on Bloomberg TV and served as a CBS News contributor. She initially joined Fox Business to host an early afternoon program, “Risk and Reward With Deirdre Bolton,” and was working as...

The Aspca (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) will honor Co-founder of the New York Social Diary, David Patrick Columbia with the Aspca Voice for Animals Award at the 22nd annual Aspca Bergh Ball.

The Bergh Ball is a cornerstone of the Aspca’s fundraising efforts to directly impact the lives of homeless, abused and vulnerable animals across the country. Hosted by fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, with music by Sam French, the event attracts over 350 animal lovers, including community leaders, generous donors and celebrities, and raises critical funds to support the Aspca’s life-saving work for animals nationwide.

Sponsored by Generation Tux and Tito’s Handmade Vodka, the event, themed “Reach Fur the Stars,” will also feature décor design by Stonekelly Events in collaboration with décor chair Robin Bell. The event’s live auction will be led by Jamie Niven. Event Chairmen include Ms. Laura Z.

In today’s roundup, VH1 drops a trailer for “RuPaul’s Drag Race Holi-Slay Spectacular” and sets a return date for “Love & Hip Hop: New York.”

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The official trailer has dropped for the YouTube Originals comedy series, “Wayne.” All 10 episodes of the series will be available on YouTube Premium on Jan. 16. “Wayne” tells the story of a 16-year-old who sets out to take back the 1978 Pontiac Trans Am that was stolen from his father before he died. The series will star Mark McKenna (“Sing Street”) and Ciara Bravo (“Big Time Rush”), and feature Joshua J. Williams (“Mudbound”) in a recurring role.

VH1 has released the trailer for Season 9 of “Love & Hip Hop: New York,” which will premiere Monday, Nov. 26 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt. Cast members include Remy Ma, Papoose, Safaree Samuels, Juelz Santana, Kimbella, and more. The reality show, which helped raise Cardi B’s profile before her rap career took off,...

Diane Macedo fans have noticed her missing from her World News Now desk, and have been questioning where she is. Back in June, Macedo announced she was pregnant and it’s not long before she is set to give birth. Some fans started speculating that the fact she was missing in action must mean she’s already welcomed her newborn into the world — but that’s not the case. Due to World News Now’s scheduling, the news anchor said she has been doing Good Morning America and ABC News Live instead to ensure that she gets some proper sleep. I’ve been doing […]

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Kendis Gibson has been named co-anchor of ABC News’ America This Morning and World News Now, joining Diane Macedo. ABC News president James Goldston’s memo to staff: Team— I'm pleased to announce that Kendis Gibson has been named America This Morning and World News Now co-anchor, joining Diane Macedo. Kendis has done a fantastic job filling in over the last year. A thoughtful and versatile journalist, he's a great match for the overnight hours, where our shows deliver a…...