Watch the 2008 Inauguration Online
// January 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog News
C-SPAN will have the most extensive live web coverage. Its using Mogulus to webcast a multichannel grid of inauguration activities from Saturday through Tuesday everything from events with the families of the President-elect and Vice President-elect to Bush departing the White House to the many inaugural balls.
Another interesting only-on-the-web way to watch is through P2P app Livestation, where you can switch between a variety of international perspectives on the inauguration, including Al Jazeera English, the BBC World News, C-SPAN, euronews, and France 24. Info here.
CBS News will be streaming its broadcast coverage from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, along with the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric at 6:30 p.m, Courics one-hour inauguration special at 9 p.m., and her CNET webcast, including responses to viewer questions submitted throughout the day, at 10 p.m. Go to www.cbsnews.com/inauguration.
ABC News will provide online coverage anchored by Sam Donaldson and Rick Klein from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. ET on ABCNEWS.com. It will embed coverage of Obama taking the oath of office directly on its homepage from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET.
MSNBC will live stream inauguration coverage on its home page and politics.msnbc.com, and it will be embeddable onto your own site or blog.
Fox News will show its The Strategy Room webcast throughout the day, according on FOXNews.com, and it will be hosting a discussion of the days events on its Facebook page.
CNN will be streaming the Inauguration on CNN Live, and it will incorporate Facebook status updates from users logged onto Facebook Connect at CNN.com. It will also feature an on-camera anchor live at the Facebook offices to report on trends and anecdotes from users inauguration-related activities.
The Associated Press will provide a webcast to its 2,000-plus affiliates starting at 7 a.m. ET with anchored coverage from 10 a.m. on its Online Video Network syndication service, including live camera feeds from the parade and various landmarks in D.C.
USA Today and the rest of Gannetts newspapers are using Mogulus to live stream on their sites, but we dont have their specific plans yet. See USAToday.com.
The New York Times will stream Obamas speech and swearing-in on its home page.
The Hispanic-focused outlet Terra will show both Spanish and English webcasts of the proceedings.
Joost will be live-streaming CBS feed for its users. Well add the link when we get it.
Update: Hulu will also be streaming coverage, using Fox Broadcasts stream from 12-2 p.m. ET. The sites player is embedded above. Bonus: the inauguration will be available on-demand after it ends.
If youre out and about and want to keep tabs via live stream on your phone, youll have to be a subscriber to Verizon V Cast, AT&T Mobile TV or MobiTV. MobiTV told the New York Times its gearing up to support a surge of viewers next Tuesday.
Or hey, if you cant bear the isolation of your cubicle, how about playing hooky to watch the inauguration with a bunch of other people? If youre not near the jumbotrons in Times Square, try checking out MSNBCs promotion with Screenvision; you can watch the inauguration in 27 movie theaters for free. Apply for tickets here.
Update: The resources keep pouring in. Here are some more. Let us know if weve missed any in the comments.
The official folks at the Presidential Inaugural Committee are streaming their own version of the days events. See Chris story on how theyre using the Microsoft video platform Silverlight here.
Current will stream the inauguration overlaid with a real-time compilation of users Twitter comments. More info here.
Ustream is carrying an inauguration feed, and is aiding select users in viewing on their iPhones. Heres the stream location, and the blog post about iPhone access is here.
Kyte: Extra host A.J. Calloway will be broadcasting from inauguration parties with a Kyte-enabled phone here.
