Guide: Michael Jackson Memorial
Updated: Seven, Nine, TEN and ABC now all cross live to the Memorial Service in Los Angeles.
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The memorial service for Michael Jackson at the Staples Center in Los Angeles will take place early morning on Wednesday, Australian time.
So far more than 1.6m fans have registered online for the tickets that will be made available. Police will seal off an area with expectations anywhere from a quarter-million to 700,000 people may try to reach the arena. A number of big names in the music industry are tipped to perform.
Here is a guide to viewing of the event, as it is received.
Seven
12:50am Michael Jackson: The Last Time rpt (full concert)
2:50AM Sunrise: Michael Jackson Memorial
David Koch, Melissa Doyle and Molly Meldrum will co-host a special extended edition of Sunrise, live and commercial free. It will feature reports on the ground from Mike Amor, Rahni Sadler, Samantha Armytage and Nelson Aspen.
Also on Wednesday night Seven has scheduled Living with Michael Jackson at 10pm bumping My Name is Earl and Family Guy out to a week later.
Nine plans a marathon leading up to the Memorial concert, including a repeat of a negative documentary heavily criticised by readers of this site, Michael Jackson: What Really Happened, just hours before honouring his memory. From 2:50am Karl Stefanovic will host in the studio, with Leila McKinnon reporting from the concert at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles. Nine’s US bureau chief Robert Penfold and Nine News reporters Peter Stefanovic and Tom Steinfort will also present live reports.
Nine
11.45pm Tuesday The Latest on Michael Jackson rpt
12.35am Wed Michael Jackson: What Really Happened rpt
1.30 Michael Jackson The King of Pop rpt
2.50 Today: The Michael Jackson Memorial Concert live and commercial free
7:00pm The Michael Jackson Memorial Concert rpt
TEN
3:00am Michael Jackson Memorial Service
5:30am Video Hits Presents: Michael Jackson – A Tribute
ABC1
3am Michael Jackson Memorial Service (2 hrs TBC)
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46 Responses
Channel 9 you are disgusting.
“What really happened” is full of lies, and is not appropriate to air before showing an memorial for someone!
Will be watching Channel 7’s live broadcast from Fed Square.
its disgusting that Nine are repeating that program on a morning that is supposed to be celebrating his life.
I’ll be sleeping during the memorial, and will watch the news later that day as half of the news coverage will show the memorial.
No change to Prison Break.
So no Prison Break??
Shane, Sunrise is in HD as it’s produced locally. For the MJ thing to be seen in HD here, a network would have to bring in an HD feed. Ten would probably have done so if only they still had an HD channel. Going by the Obama coverage, Seven and Nine probably won’t bother with HD despite the source being guaranteed to be HD.
Gerrard, I refer to events such as the Gallipoli Dawn Service where Nine had to plaster the picture with their “9” logo, “Live” caption, “Gallipoli Dawn Service” caption and an AIF logo for the duration of the telecast. All unnecessary and distracting…so I switched to the cleaner ABC picture. Nine’s been watching CNN too much.
For God’s sake would Ch9 cut that pathetic ‘What really happened) off? It’s just disgusting and pathetic to show it hours before the memorial! The documentary is full of lies!
Hooray for the off button.
commercial free for 7. yeah right. that wont happen and that is absolute given. kochie will his usual un funny jokes about michael jackson for joke of the day. 9 will stuff their’s up just as bad
Channel 9 shouldn’t be repeating their special on MJ, even so i didnt watch it, by the comments on this site it was lucky i missed it. Also its guess it will be on all tv news channels, FOX News, CNN International, BBC News, and Sky news with sky news UK coverage i guess, also its very good to see E! will also have it live.
Do you know which ones will be in HD, is sunrise in HD?
i just wish we could get FOX News & E! in HD on FOXTEL.
@ Kenny,
Actually, Seven has way more on-screen graphics than Nine. Seven’s Sunrise has the scroll at the bottom of the screen, while Nine got rid of theirs last year.
What is Nine’s problem? Have they still not viewed this ‘What really happened?’ special which should be re-titled ‘What never happened’? How can they think it is approriate to re-air this junk? It is quite old, not truthful at all, very one sided filled with lies, and does not have any respectful things in it whatsoever.
@ leon another article on this site says how channel ten failed to provide captioning in it coverage of the obama inauguration, this is a good example of why multiple channel coverage of a major event is a good thing, if only one network broadcast the inauguration like you propose all those who are hearing in paired would have missed out if that sole network turned out to be TEN.
also@ leon the coverage is commercial free meaning the networks aren’t making any money out of this either.
@ellis although it doesn’t appear in the epg i saw an ad for cnn coverage’s, it would also be safe to assume that bbcnews, foxnews , and sky news(probably a simulcast of skynews uk) will air it as well.
@leon so what do you suggest, just one channel so it other wise it’s shameful? if they did you would complain that the other channels didn’t even show it, this is a major event that people have great interest in and giving people the option to view it on there preferred channel is a good thing.
CNN International and E! both have it live.
David, will any Foxtel channels air the memorial service?
I like it if there is some local input, didn’t like how TEN just used the CBS coverage with Katie Couric.
I’ll set the PVR but not getting up at 3am for this, sorry MJ.
great.. Ch7 & Ch9 battle for Memorial Ratings.. How pathetic can these FTA channels get. Battle each other over everything.. now a memorial.. Shame!
I agree, Dr Rudi. Nine will plaster the pictures with their 9 logo, “live” and all of the other unneccessary garbage as they usually do. Hopefully TEN, SBS or ABC will have it, so it can be watched with cleaner pictures.
oh no sunrise going commercial free? how will they handle it!
Why can’t Australian television just take a US feed and leave it at that ? No one in that list will offer an additional insight – with the possible exception of Molly if he has taken up the invitation to the service.
Nine just announced a Today edition from 3am
Georgie Gardiner supposedly hadn’t been told and looked quite surprised when Karl announced it!