ABC/ABC7 Inaugural Coverage

WASHINGTON, D.C. ABC7/ ABCNEWS COVERAGE (CST):
  • 5-7 a.m. ABC7 News This Morning
  • 7-8:30 a.m. (joining) Good Morning America's Special 3-Hour Edition
  • 8:30 a.m. Inauguration 2009, anchored by Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos. CLICK HERE TO WATCH IT LIVE!
  • 4-5:30 p.m. ABC7 News
  • 5:30 p.m. World New Tonight
  • 6 p.m. ABC7 News
  • 6:30 p.m. ABC News
  • 7 p.m. The Neighborhood Ball: An Inaugural Celebration
  • 9 p.m. A Moment in History: The Inauguration of Barack Obama
  • ABC7's Cheryl Burton, Andy Shaw and Charles Thomas will report live from Washington, D.C. during the inauguration on ABC7 News.

    GMA will be broadcasting from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

    Inauguration 2009, broadcast from the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue, will include all events from the swearing-in ceremony and Obama's Inaugural Address to the Inaugural Parade, as well reaction from around the nation and the world to this historic event.

    Gibson, Sawyer and Stephanopoulos will be joined by a team of ABC News anchors, correspondents and analysts including:

  • Robin Roberts, Deborah Roberts and Bill Weir reporting from the Washington Mall
  • Chris Cuomo, David Muir and Kate Snow reporting along the Parade Route
  • Jake Tapper reporting on the Obama Presidency and his first day
  • Jonathan Karl reporting on the new Congress
  • Pierre Thomas reporting on the day's security operations, including the challenges the expected crowd poses on law enforcement
  • Martha Raddatz on the foreign policy challenges facing the new administration and the legacy of President George W. Bush
  • Ron Claiborne reporting from Obama's ancestral home in Kenya
  • ABC News Commentators Donna Brazile, Matthew Dowd, Cokie Roberts and George Will
  • Historians Richard Norton Smith and Carl Sferazza Anthony
  • Obama biographer David Mendell
  • At 7:00 p.m., ET President-elect Barack Obama will host the first-ever "Neighborhood Inaugural Ball," the premiere event of inauguration evening. At 9 p.m., ET Gibson, Sawyer and Stephanopoulos will anchor the ABC News Special "A Moment in History: The Inauguration of Barack Obama." This news program will take the audience live to Inaugural Balls and track the President and First Lady as they continue their celebration throughout Washington.

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