TV One will air live, uninterrupted coverage of Michael Jackson’s Memorial Service from the Staples Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, July 7 beginning at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT. TV One’s coverage will be co-anchored by veteran journalists Art Fennell and Jacque Reid, who also co-anchored TV One’s award-winning 2008 Democratic convention and election night coverage.
TV One will also re-air the service Tuesday night (July 7) at 8 PM and 11 PM ET.
Launched in January 2004, TV One (www.tvoneonline.com) serves more than 47.5 million households (Nielsen June 2009 estimate), offering a broad range of entertainment, reality and lifestyle -oriented original programming, classic series, movies, and music designed to entertain, inform and inspire a diverse audience of adult African American viewers.
TV One’s investors include Radio One (Nasdaq: ROIA and ROIAK; www.radio-one.com), the largest radio company that primarily targets African American and urban listeners; Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA and CMCSK; www.comcast.com), the leading cable television company in the country; The DirecTV Group; Constellation Ventures; Syndicated Communications; and Opportunity Capital Partners.