Tuesday's Programming Overview:
Beginning at 4am...
Morning Edition: 4-9am
A record number of people will converge on Washington for President-elect Barack Obama’s Inauguration ceremony and Morning Edition will report from the scene and begin capturing the best of the extraordinary events.
Renee Montagne will be in NPR’s DC studios while Steve Inskeep and NPR reporters will be in key places around the capital to provide your listeners with live reports all morning. Morning Edition will be continuously updated from the start, and right up to 9:00. The show will be inauguration-focused (pending other news of the day, of course) and provide a “you are there” feel throughout the morning.
We’ll set the stage for your listeners to understand how the nation’s capital, a city of roughly 600,000 people, is preparing for possibly four million visitors (depending on whose estimates you choose to believe!). We’ll look at all angles including the special security measures for the day, and ride into town with a busload of excited people heading to the inauguration.
We are aiming to provide live reports from the Capitol Grounds, Statuary Hall in the Capitol, various points around the Mall (subject to security clearance where appropriate), Freedom Plaza, the Reviewing stand, Lafayette Park, DC’s historic U Street Corridor, the Convention Center (where overflow crowds will watch the ceremony) as well as from Harlem, NY, Chicago, IL, Birmingham, AL, Denver, CO and more.
The importance of the Inauguration spills beyond the U.S. border to around the world and NPR will bring your listeners those perspectives. We’ll have Gwen Thompkins reporting from Kenya, Rob Gifford in London, Sylvia Poggioli in Rome, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro in Baghdad, Anthony Kuhn in Beijing and Jason Beaubien in Mexico City, with possible reports from Moscow, Jerusalem and Bogota. All that, plus Rich Bradley reporting WUIS news from the Springfield studios!
Special Coverage: 9am - 1pm
Special Coverage begins as Steve Inskeep and Michele Norris take listeners to the viewing stands on the Capitol grounds. With preparations underway, they describe the building excitement as hundreds of thousands, maybe millions crowd onto the National Mall to participate in history. We'll hear from NPR journalists amid the throng in Washington, DC, talk with people around the country and the world about their hopes and expectations for change. For many, it will be a moment they never believed would happen in their lifetimes.
During the Inaugural Ceremonies (10-12), we will hear full, uninterrupted coverage of the ceremonies as first Joe Biden and then Barack Obama are sworn into office, followed by the Inaugural Address.
Following the ceremony, Steve Inskeep and Michele Norris will talk with previous presidential speechwriters historians, journalists and with many in the crowd about what they heard from the new president and about the challenges that lie ahead. We'll continue to hear from people around the nation and the world.
Call-in Special, 1 - 3pm
Neal Conan picks up the live coverage at 1:00 pm as we broaden our coverage into a national conversation with our listeners about their reaction to the President's address. We'll hear from a broad range of political stakeholders about what they expect from this new administration, and what their roles will be. We will also provide live coverage of the Inaugural Parade as it passes the reviewing stand on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Fresh Air, with Terry Gross: 3 - 4pm
A fresh hour on the Inauguration.
All Things Considered: 4 - 6pm
Yes, the inauguration ceremony is over, but the events continue and so does our coverage. Robert Siegel and Melissa Block host. Melissa is on the streets in the morning talking with those who traveled to DC for the occasion. We’ll analyze Mr. Obama’s speech and have reaction from Chicago, Harlem and various locations around the country and overseas. DC is the city that never sleeps and we’ll be live, checking out the scene as the parade rolls down Pennsylvania Avenue with Michele Norris. Then NPR's “belle of the ball” Elizabeth Blair has the enviable task of attending the galas, but only so she can let us know how much fun everyone else is having. Also Jenna Dooley will have the latest WUIS news.
Watch this page for a number of interactive and dynamic events for the inauguration on January 20th - online chats - videos - listener dispatches (via tweets & text messages) and more!
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