Several networks adjust schedules for Presidential News Conference on Wednesday
CBS and NBC had repeats scheduled,
so the decision to carry President Obama’s news conference live from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday was fairly easy.
ABC had to juggle its schedule to accomodate the conference, however, and Fox decided to stay with original programming.
It is not known when the networks were made aware of the news conference, but the first one to issue a release about it was CNBC, and that was Monday afternoon. Fox News was the second network to announce plans to pre-empt programming to carry the presidential address live.
Because Fox News is providing coverage, Fox decided to stick with its two-hour live broadcast of “So You Think You Can Dance.” The network did not carry President Obama’s last address to the country on April 29 due to a scheduling confict with a new episode of “Lie to Me.”
To make room for Wednesday’s address, ABC will slide new episodes of “Wipeout” and “I Survived a Japanese Game Show” back one hour and move the ABC News special “Over a Barrell: The Truth About Oil” to 9 p.m. Friday.
PBS and CNN will also carry the news conference live. PBS will move the new episode of “Time Team America” to 4 a.m. Monday (July 27), while CNN will push the premiere of “Black in America 2: Tomorrow’s Leaders” back one hour to 8 p.m Wednesday (repeats at 11 p.m. and 2 a.m.) The second “Black in America 2″ installment titled “Today’s Pioneers,” will air at 7 p.m. Thursday, with repeats at 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
–Penny TV
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