Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Music news As the world turns, Michael Jackson's memorial coverage, and ghostly rumors, dominate
Posted by Rodney Carmichael @Rappin_Rodney on Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:28 PM
The body of Michael Jackson will be present at today's mass memorial service in L.A., but what about his purported ghost?
While CNN will likely be the primary source, both on TV and online, to watch today's Michael Jackson memorial service scheduled to start at 1 p.m. EST at L.A.'s Staples Center, footage aired on the cable news network has also become the source of rumors suggesting an apparition of the King of Pop is on the loose.
The video, which originally aired last week on The Larry King Live Show, was shot while Miko Brando (son of Marlon Brando and friend of MJ) took CNN cameras on a tour of the Neverland Ranch. Apparently, some overzealous (read: crazy) fans mistook the shadow of a CNN crew person spotted in the background for the ghost of MJ. The resulting video (below) looks like a clip worthy of a blockbuster horror flick.
UPDATE: The public service at the Staples Center will include appearances by Atlantans Usher and Akon, Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, Lionel Richie and Jennifer Hudson, among others. Brother Jermaine Jackson will reportedly sing a version of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile" (covered by MJ on his 1995 double album HIStory). And Lionel Richie — who co-wrote with Jackson the humanitarian outreach song "We Are the World" — will lead the all-star cast in singing it for the service's finale.
The AJC's Rodney Ho has outlined both national and local TV and radio coverage of the memorial service, as well as a breakdown of which soap operas will be pre-empted for more soap-like coverage of the icon's life and death:
The major cable networks — HLN, MSNBC, CNN and Fox News — will be in Los Angeles at the Staples Center at 1 p.m. EST. E! Entertainment network, TV Guide Channel and TV One will cover it, too. And so will local broadcast affiliates for CBS (WGCL-TV), NBC (WXIA-TV) and ABC (WSB-TV) using national feeds.This means WXIA’s “Days of Our Lives” will be pre-empted, followed by part of a repeat of “Martha.”
Steve Riley said WSB-TV will air the ABC national feed from 1 to 3 p.m. and the two soaps “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” will simply skip a day.
WAGA-TV won’t be taking the national Fox feed. Instead, it will keep airing its array of judge shows during the Michael Jackson funeral service.
WGCL has the most confusing changes. “The Price is Right” moves to 3 p.m. from 11 a.m. while “The Young and the Restless” moves to 11 a.m. “As the World Turns” is off for the day while “The Bold and the Beautiful” airs at 12:30 p.m. after the news at noon. The MJ special will air from 1 p.m. til 2:30 p.m. and “Guiding Light” will air in progress until 3 p.m. Got that? If you have a DVR, this might be the time to use it, assuming the cable/satellite folks update their schedules in time.
Read more for local radio coverage.
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I can’t believe he is really gone. Looking at his videos and photos Im very sad. I am watching and listening live of the memorial in LA since sadly I did not win a ticket. You can do the same here and feel like you are right there! http://tinyurl.com/MJPortalPage
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