Want To Watch The Royal Wedding Saturday, Easy. Avoiding it, Hard
Did you hear there is this big wedding happening in England on Saturday? This POOrince Harry Guy and American Meghan Markle getting hitched. If you want to escape it, head for a wilderness place with no wi-fi.
After all more than 2 billion people around the world watched the 2011 wedding of Prince William and the former Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London. I would bet this one is going to be bigger.
On KDHL there will be top of the hour updates on ABC News.
If you are one of those that have to enjoy your tea and crumpets and watch the wedding here you go.
According to some of the networks, here is the current plan.
ABC
Good Morning America leads off the day with a five-hour edition, with Robin Roberts and David Muir hosting the live coverage starting at 5 a.m. ET/2 PT from Windsor. (An additional hour of GMA will air at 7 a.m. PT for the West Coast.)
The network's news magazine, 20/20, will cover the nuptials with hour-long specials on Friday and Saturday at 10 ET/7 PT, with Muir anchoring and correspondent Deborah Roberts reporting from Windsor.
BBC America
The U.S. version of the United Kingdom's "The Beeb," the cable channel will air the wedding live as a direct simulcast of BBC One’s coverage, starting at 4:15 a.m ET/1:15 PT). An encore presentation of the wedding will air at 10 p.m. ET/7 PT.
BBC World News
BBC’s international 24-hour news service on Saturday will air the BBC’s wedding coverage starting at midnight ET/9 p.m. PT Friday with pre-wedding content.
Coverage of the wedding will start at 5 a.m. ET/2 PT, when BBC World News will join BBC One's coverage. Then, starting at 9 a.m. ET/6 PT, coverage will continue with a BBC News special about the wedding.
BritBox
The streaming service of BBC Studios and ITV (the British commercial network) will begin streaming coverage live at 4:25 a.m. ET/1:25 PT, offering the ITV feed of the event. The partnership says its coverage will offer the "authentic British perspective" of the wedding: Everyone you hear will be British, with local accents and the experience of having grown up with the royal family as part of everyday life. For Brits in the USA, it'll be a taste of home.
CBS
CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King and Entertainment Tonight co-host Kevin Frazier will anchor CBS News’ live coverage from London beginning at 4 a.m. ET/1 PT.
The network will also present a two-hour special, Royal Romance: The Marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, at 8 p.m. ET/5 PT on Saturday summing up the day’s events.
CBSN, the network's 24/7 streaming news network, will begin its coverage at 4 a.m. ET/1 PT on Saturday.
CNN
Live coverage will begin from Windsor at 4 a.m. ET/1 PT, anchored by Anderson Cooper, Alisyn Camerota, and Don Lemon along with CNN’s royal correspondent, Max Foster, plus royal commentators Victoria Arbiter and Kate Williams, royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith and fashion expert Joe Zee.
The network even signed up a new commentator, Boston University dean Harvey Young, who was Markle’s theater professor at Northwestern University.
CNN’s coverage will be simulcast across CNN/U.S., CNN International, and HLN. The coverage will replay at 8 p.m. ET/5 PT on Saturday and on HLN at 3 p.m. ET/noon PT.
E!
E! Live From the Royal Wedding, with Melanie Bromley, Giuliana Rancic, and Brad Goreski, will air from Windsor with five hours of coverage starting at 5 a.m. ET/2 PT. Plus, the hour-long recap special, E! Royal Wedding Rundown, will air at 7 p.m. ET.
Fox News
Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt will co-host the live coverage beginning at 5 a.m. ET/2 PT and then join Shepard Smith and Sandra Smith in covering the main event at 6 a.m. ET/3 PT.
HBO
For a Funny or Die perspective on the wedding, HBO will air The Royal Wedding Live With Cord and Tish! starting at 7.30 a.m. ET/4:30 PT, with Saturday Night Live alums Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon playing their parody characters, “broadcast legends” Cord and Tish, chronicling the nuptials in real time. A prime-time replay will air at 9:45 ET/6:45 PT.
NBC
All four hours of the Today show will be broadcasting from Windsor starting at 7 a.m. ET/4 PT Friday, featuring Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Megyn Kelly and Kathie Lee Gifford. On Saturday, Guthrie and Kotb will co-anchor TODAY at the Royal Wedding from Windsor starting at 4:30 a.m./1:30 PT and continuing until 11 a.m. ET/8 PT.
Access Hollywood is broadcasting daily from outside Buckingham Palace in London and from Windsor this week, while Accessonline.com will live-stream the wedding beginning at 4:30 a.m. ET/1:30 PT.
PBS
The network will broadcast live coverage from the BBC on Saturday, starting at 3 am Central Time.
TLC
The channel will provide a live four-hour feed of the wedding starting at 5 a.m. ET/2 PT. This will be followed by a one-hour special, Royal Wedding Revealed, that night at 10 ET/7 PT.