I am very disappointed that the Inaugural Gala, with both the Bush and Cheney families in attendance, has not been on any channel that I can find. I did catch a glimpse of the Gatlin Brothers and Reuben Stoddard on MSNBC, but that's it. Unless it just started, nothing on CSPAN either (last time I checked CPAN1 had Tony Blair and CPAN2 had the Mayor of Carmel, Indiana.
C-SPAN will have a full day of coverage tomorrow, beginning very early eastern time. They will cover the inaugural balls tomorrow night.
The First Lady looked beautiful and the music was truly spectacular. Andrea Bocelli was his usual breathtaking self and the Gatlin Bros. were wonderfully inspirational.
CNN and MSNBC had coverage for quite a while...until the president left, but they broke for commercial frequently and so I was switching back and forth.
It looks terribly cold in DC and I just saw a behind the scenes report from a freeper who is in attendance as a volunteer who said many people visiting from far away are not appropriately dressed for the cold.
Yes I clicked on Cspan when I got in from work to be faced with question time and Blair's sickly smile
We were more fortunate here in the DC area, MM. There is a channel that is the news arm of the ABC channel. WJLA is on channel 7, and this "all news all the time" is on channel 8 and they covered the Salute to Freedom right up until the First Families left. It was great.
But other than that, I agree with you - that more stations should have been carrying the events nationally. I called a friend and told her what to look for on her screen (she has no idea what channels are what on her cable box. No comment from me.) and she finally found it.
I hope the cable stations do a better job of it tomorrow or I'm going to be very mad that I'm not out on a DC street - which with all of the Metro station closings and me on crutches would be pretty impossible to say nothing of the snow and cold. Brrrrr! It was 72 degrees last Thursday - and tomorrow it will be 29. Ouchie. No time to adjust.