The Coverage

Here's how the networks and cable will cover the Michael Jackson service, via TVNewser:

• ABC: Charlie Gibson will anchor live coverage "Remembering Michael Jackson" at 1pmET, joined by "Nightline" anchor Martin Bashir. Some updates: Diane Sawyer, in NY, and Barbara Walters, at the Staples Center, will co-anchor a special edition of "20/20" at 9pmET. Sawyer and Elizabeth Vargas will also co-anchor "Primetime: Family Secrets," a report on Michael Jackson's children at 10pmET. Cynthia McFadden will also anchor "Nightline" from the Staples Center.
• CBS: Maggie Rodriguez and Harry Smith will anchor the "Early Show" from the Staples Center tomorrow. Katie Couric will anchor special coverage of the memorial at 1pmET and the CBS "Evening News" from the Staples Center. Couric will also do "48 Hours" at 10pmET.
• NBC/MSNBC: NBC will televise the memorial service at 1pmET, anchored by Brian Williams. Chris Jansing will anchor MSNBC's live coverage. Meredith Vieira will broadcast live tomorrow at the Staples Center for "Today" and Williams will anchor "Nightly News" from LA Tuesday.
• CNN: Anderson Cooper, Larry King, Don Lemon and Soledad O'Brien will host coverage live from LA, with Campbell Brown and Roland Martin anchoring live from New York, starting at NoonET on CNN and simulcast on CNN International.
• HLN: Robin Meade, A.J. Hammer and Jane Velez-Mitchell will anchor live coverage for HLN.
• Fox: Shepard Smith will anchor live coverage of the memorial service on Fox News starting at 1pmET. Megyn Kelly will anchor live coverage of the memorial on FOX broadcast also beginning at 1pmET. Greta Van Susteren will also be in LA on Tuesday, and will host her show from there Tuesday night.

No word if the Home Shopping Network, the Disney Channel, QVC or Nickelodeon will be breaking from their regular broadcast schedules yet...

Basically it'll be the opposite of the Billy Mays coverage...

2004 Obama Interview on Nightline

ABC’s “Nightline” will air a never-before-seen interview with Senator Barack Obama tonight.
The exclusive interview with Ted Koppel took place hours before the 2004 Democratic National Convention in 2004, at which Senator Obama made a well-received speech (above).

First Ed...Now Ted

Former Nightline host Ted Koppel is desperate to sell his home.

It's actually been on the market for THREE YEARS...

Koppel has been trying to sell his suburban Washington, D.C. home since 2005, when he originally listed it for $4.1 million. And, now in 2008, he's cut the asking price by more than half.
Last August, he lowered the price to $2.3 million for the 9,000 square-foot, six bedroom home. It's located on 2.5 acres and includes an indoor pool, a maid's quarters, a gym, a sauna, and even a horse barn.
The current asking price is $1.94 million.
As for Koppel and his wife, they have moved into a larger home a few miles away and anxiously waiting to sell their old one.